95.3% Moon

A Seestar S50 in EQ mode was controlled by a low cost an very responsive 2023 10.1 " Fire tablet. To locate the Moon, first the Seestar was sent to NGC700 by its normal plate-solving method. The the image was auto-focused. Then the scope was sent to the Moon, which it acquired perfectly.

A 4 minute RAW AVI was captured of the 95.3% Moon. The best 50% of the frames in the AVI were debayered and stacked in Autostakkert!4. The resulting image was wavelet processed in waveSharp and finished in Gimp.

A Seestar S50 streaming RAW video of the Moon displayed on a Fire Tablet which was controlling the telescope

A screenshot from the Fire table during the RAW AVI capture

95.3% Moon

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin