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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 01:39 PM Dec 2014

Morning Moon 12-11-2014

It was really clear here at five am and since I was up and about I decided to shoot the Moon again.

Lumix ZS15 pocket zoom + cheapo tripod, 170 exposures at 1/500 f6.3 ISO100 3 megapixel mode aligned, stacked and enhanced in Registax 6.

My flabber is absolutely gasted at how good the lens is on this camera, the thing is about the diameter of a nickle and the camera is the size of a pack of cigarettes.

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Morning Moon 12-11-2014 (Original Post) Fumesucker Dec 2014 OP
Gorgeous--you should be proud! So well done. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2014 #1
Wow, beautiful delineation! NV Whino Dec 2014 #2
Thank you, I just finished reprocessing a set of shots from a couple of mornings ago.. Fumesucker Dec 2014 #3

Fumesucker

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3. Thank you, I just finished reprocessing a set of shots from a couple of mornings ago..
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 02:56 PM
Dec 2014

This was 12-09-2014 at about 3:30 am.. Same camera settings as previous image, this is a stack of the best 50 of about 800 taken through drifting high cirrus clouds.



I've learned that to get the best final image you have to align the images twice, the first time I save the aligned images as an AVI and then I load the aligned AVI, align it again and then stack it.

The resulting final image is significantly more crisp after a second alignment.

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