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Gibbous Moon with StellaMira 80ED (medium)


Gibbous Moon with StellaMira 80ED (medium)

Taken about forty minutes after sunrise on December 14, 2022 using a StellaMira 80ED refractor and a ZWO ASI678MC camera. I color balanced the background sky to black using a curves adjustment in Photoshop although in actuality the sky was light blue with a blue-tinted moon.

Image processing with AutoStakkert! (best 512 of 1000 frames), Registax (wavelet sharpening), MS Image Composite Editor (ICE), and Photoshop 2023. This is a three frame mosaic (although two would have done) using ICE. Additional details are in the image caption.






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