Sept 28, 2023
Equipment
- Canon R3
- 1680mm
- f/11
- ISO 400
- 1/200
Processing Pipeline
- Photolab
- RAW conversion, contrast/temp/hue/color grading. Disable denoising
- PIPP
- Sort frames by quality and select top 15%
- Hugin
- Align Frames to prevent blurring in stack
- AutoStakkert
- Stack frames. This eliminates noise and allows us to heavily sharpen the image
- WaveSharp
- Sharpen. This is where we finally get sharp craters and it will often bring out extra color detail
- Topaz Denoise
- Sometimes WaveSharp accentuates CA noise so we have to fix that
- Topaz Gigapixel
- Upscale because the moon is really far away. This will produce a larger image suitable for prints
- Photoshop
- Final coloring, contrast, and sharpness adjustments
