High resolution Lunar images

An SVBONY SV305 Pro OSC CMOS camera was placed at the focus of a Skymax 127, mounted on a Celestron AVX mount controlled by AstroDMx Capture for Windows via an INDI server running on a Linux mini computer. AstroDMx Capture was used to capture two 1500-frame RAW SER files of different regions of the lunar surface. The best 75% of the frames in the SER files were debayered and stacked in Autostakkert! 4. The resulting images were wavelet processed in waveSharp and post processed in the Gimp 2.10 and ACDSee.

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Region showing Mare Nectaris, Mare Fecunditatis and Sinus Asperitatus. Also Craters Messier A, Lagrenus, Gutenberg, Taruntius, Catharina, Cyrillus, Theophilus and Fracastorus.

Region showing craters Zagut, Lindenau, Rothmann, Piccolomini, Janssen, Fabricus, Metius, Rheta E, Pitiscus, Viacq and Hommel.

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin