This mosaic of 12 overlapping subframes is shrunk down considerably from the original image, which is about 940 mpx. The full image is more than 2GB as just a TIFF, too large for a PNG and hard to work with in any case. I have had to shrink it down considerably in order for it to be usable at all. At original scale, this is the Apollo 11 landing site near Sabine Crater.

This is the sharpest lunar image I have made so far.

Celestron C11 at f10

Ioptron CEM60EC

ZWO ASI183MC-Pro at -17C

6,000 frames at 25ms exposure, 0 gain, 12 sections, 500 images per section.

Stacking best 10% in autoStakkert, 3x drizzle. Processing each stack takes between 45 minutes and 1.5 hours.

Processing in Photoshop for mosaic stitching, color saturation, and brightness. Topaz Sharpening AI for details and noise reduction.

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Well done that’s a lot of effort - looks awesome. I want to try the same so thanks for sharing how you did it

Thanks for pointing an actual big-ass telescope at the moon and showing the color and background that comes out of a bayer sensor.

Nice pic but what makes this different from the other stacked images of the moon that get posted here daily

The detail.