Moon

[Fay]

Not too exciting but I was pleased to have taken it as follows:20x1000th sec, ha, cls, Atik 314L/Skywatcher 6" Mak. Cass. FL1800



Same as above but 30x1000th sec, bit out of focus

[Rocket Pooch]

1st one looks better, I like it, well focused and well balanced.

[Mac]

Very nice,

shame about the focus though.
try a little unsharp mask in photoshop,
or even Marks little software prog, might help.

ps Im free mon - wed - thu next week for the hard disk..

[Fay]

this is the out of focus one restacked & uncropped. Looks smoother

[Tony G]

Nice images Fay, especially the first.
Good to see old faithful can still be a great subject when the weather is not in our favour.

Tony G

[Fay]

Monday Mac?

[Fay]

Thanks Tony, I have rescued it second time around

[JohnP]

Good to see old faithful can still be a great subject when the weather is not in our favour.

You taking about the moon or something else.... 

[Tony G]

Now, now John. 

Tony G

[MarkS]

Fay,

You've got some good data there. 
I took the liberty of passing this through my deconvolution program (even though it was just a jpeg).
You'll probably find that Registax Wavelets would also do a reasonable job.

Mark

[Fay]

Wow that is good Mark!!!!! I am assuming that Registax would not stack FITS, but is ok to do wavelets on JPG.
Mark deconvolution program, can you tell me again, how to do it.  

I was talking to Tony Buick last night & he said the BAA had contacted him regarding something happened in one of the craters on the night I took these pictures. He is not sure what but  asked to see the images .......just in case.

[MarkS]

Fay,

If you save your file as a 16bit TIF then you won't introduce the compression artifacts that occur in JPGs.   Deconvolution then introduces less noise (because you have less noise to start with)

You *might* be able to open the TIF it in Registax and apply wavelets - I'm not sure.

Mark

[Fay]

Oh ok, Mark, I thought you applied your "special technique"  I never thought of opening it up in Registax for the final tweak. I will have a go at the tiff

[MarkS]

Yes, I did apply my "special technique".

But since you have the raw data it's probably worth you giving it try in Registax, also.

[Fay]

How do you process a very bright edge of Moon   thanks