Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks to my north facing balcony, I can only photograph the moon when it's at high declinations. Fortunately it was at +27 dec the other day, and it was early enough for me to be awake to shoot it! Captured at 10pm on April 12th, 2024.

Places where I host my other images:

Flickr | Instagram

Equipment:

• TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

• Orion Sirius EQ-G

• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

• Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

• ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

• Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

• Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

• Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

• ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

• Moonlite Autofocuser

Acquisition: (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)

• R - 20000 x 5.4ms

• G - 2000 x 4.3ms

• B - 2000 x 6.0ms

Capture Software:

• Captured using Sharpcap and N.I.N.A. for mount/filterwheel control

Stacking:

• Stacked the best 25% of frames in Autostakkert (autosharpened, 3X Drizzle)

PixInsight Processing:

• DynamicCrop

• ChannelCombination to combine monochrome images into RGB image

• ChannelMatch to align G and B color channels to red

• ColorCalibration

• HistogramTransformation (slight stretch)

• SCNR > invert > SCNR to remove green and magenta color fringing

• CurvesTransformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc.

• LocalHistogramTransformation

• dynamic crop

• Annotation

Can't wait to see it when the waxing is 100% complete. Make it shine!

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!