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First use of the new pier. Since the moon was out, I shot it!

Celestron Nexstar 4SE (mak, 1325mm focal length, f/13) on EQ6. Camera DMK41.
Processing: AS!2 stacking. Wavelets in Registax 5. Panorama in Photoshop Elements.

I ended up taking 13 panels of over 1000 frames each with generous overlap to cover the whole surface. Wanted to make sure I didn't have a repeat of the disaster last time. Again I took a conservative wavelets and levels approach. I really wish this was in colour, but having to manually process each of the 13 files by hand, I don't fancy needing to do that 3x over! All of a sudden a planetary OSC sounds more tempting...

Tried to take a flat using a white plastic bag over the scope still pointed at the moon, but it came out funny so I binned it. I think it was too far into the noise floor to be useful.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Nice shot! Really good detail on it, looks pretty nice

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Gear: Canon SX20 IS, Canon Rebel T3i, Canon EF-S 18-55mm
Wishlist: Canon 50mm f/1.8 II, Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II
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