lefty7283, 
Thanks to my north facing balcony, I can only photograph the moon when it’s at high declinations. Fortunately it was at +27 dec the other day, and it was early enough for me to be awake to shoot it! Captured at 10pm on April 12th, 2024.
Places where I host my other images:
- TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
- Orion Sirius EQ-G
- ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
- Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
- ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
- Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
- Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
- Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
- ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
- Moonlite Autofocuser
Acquisition: (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)
- R - 20000 x 5.4ms
- G - 2000 x 4.3ms
- B - 2000 x 6.0ms
Capture Software:
- Captured using Sharpcap and N.I.N.A. for mount/filterwheel control
Stacking:
- Stacked the best 25% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)
PixInsight Processing:
- DynamicCrop
- ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image
- ChannelMatch to align G and B color channels to red
- ColorCalibration
- HistogramTransformation (slight stretch)
- SCNR > invert > SCNR to remove green and magenta color fringing
- CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.
- Very slight convolution to hide some drizzle artifacts
- LocalHistogramTransformation
- dynamic crop
- Annotation
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