Sunday, April 21, 2019

The Moon's Terminator


     The Moon's Terminator is the line between day and night.  In this region, because of the sharp shadows,  you can see clearly how deep, and how high the moons creators are.   
      This image was captured during the moons first quarter.  I used a Celestron Neximage5 camera mounted on a Tele Vue NP101.  The camera resolution was at 1920x1080 @ 1/240 sec. and I captured a 4000 frame uncompressed AVI of each half.  Each half was stacked separately using RegiStax 6.1. only 10% of the frames where used. After using wavelets to enhance detail, the 2 images where combined into a mosaic then processed into the final image using Photoshop.