Infinity 1st moonlight

Hello everyone,

after a long time since I received my Infinity 2-1, I was able to see the sky through the clouds and immediately went out to try my new toy The sun was not a great target and I still have some issues to solve with the new camera and the Coronado. The only available target was then the moon and luckily it remained available for a little while in the early evening. The seeing was not cooperating at high resolution so I stayed at F10 and added an R+IR filter.

Here are the data on the image:
UTC 18:07
Celestron 11" @F10
Lumenera Inf. 2-1+R+IR filter at 15fps, 12bit mode and full frame (1392x1040). 114 frames of 700 manually selected and processed in Iris and PS. The final image has been cropped and resized to 80%.
Gotta love big chips

Ciao
Luca 8)

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Here is the same picture processed in a different way: they have both been processed in Iris and post-processed in PS and almost the same way, but the picture in the previous post had had a little wavelet applied in Iris, whereas the one posted here was processed only with levels and unsharp mask in PS.

Now is there, in your opinion, any appreciable difference?
Which one do you prefer?

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Excellent work Luca! I prefer the first image better, but I think there is not much difference between the two.

Regards,
Ed Roach

Hi Luca, very nice images from the moon.
I see not al lot diference between those.
But I like them both !
Regards Richard

Thank you very much Richard and Edward!

I had not imaged the moon in a while and I forgot how beautiful it looked through the eyepiece and later on the pc screen. Must do some more of it .

Ciao guys

Luca 8)