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9-Day Old Moon

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Click the image for a 75% size view. (1898 x 2530 - 1.16 MB)

Instrument

12.5" RCOS @ ~ f/9 (2880 mm fl) at 0.64 arcsec/pixel. Shown at  0.85 & 2.88 arcsec/pixel.

Mount

Paramount ME

Camera

SBIG STL-11000 w/ FW8 filter wheel

Acquisition Data

7/11/2019 Chino Valley, AZ. with TheSkyX

Exposure

Ha

single exposure of 0.5 sec. Bin 1x1

Software & Processing Notes

 

  • PixInsight, Photoshop CS6.

  • PixInsight for non-linear stretching with HistogramTransformation, LocalHistogramEqualization to increase contrast and UnsharpMask to enhance detail.

  • PhotoShop for smoothing the darker areas.

  • Noiseware 5, a PhotoShop plug-in.