Acquisition Details:
Nikon D90 at 200mm
ISO 200, Variable Exposures at F/13
Processing details:
5-15 frames stacked (PIPP, AutoStakkert!4)
Blend of 3 images for totality
Registax 6: Sharpening and Wavelets
GIMP: Color balance and collage
Lunar Mosaic captured on 04/08/2026. I was careful with adjusting colour calibration and saturation to reveal the tinges of the mineral deposits on the maria without accentuating chromatic aberration on the craters near the terminator.
Equipment:
29 panel mosaic; stacked best 180 frames out of 10-13 second videos at 30 FPS.
Processing:
Images captured on 04/08/2026.
It's been a hot minute since I've done smartphone planetary photography! This session was particularly nostalgic to me, as I deployed the exact same set-up that had gotten me started in astrophotography way back in 2019.
Equipment:
- Celestron OMNI XLT AZ80
- iPhone SE, Nightcap App
- 6mm SVBONY goldline
- Celestron NESXYZ phone adapter
Stacked best 30% of 2600 frames. PIPP, AS!4 (wow, we're on edition 4 now?), Registax 6.
Seeing was superb tonight (04/08/2026).
Near-Earth Asteroid 1997 NC1 captured in the early hours of June 28.
Equipment:
Acquisition:
June 28 00:24 to 01:16