Moonscape of Lunar Craters at 600X on August 25th, 2021

This is a Moonscape that I did on August 25th. The seeing was about average most of the time, but I then caught about 20 minutes of Excellent seeing. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

It was captured with my Apertura AD12 Dobsonian Telescope that also has rings that I put on it and strap it down to my iOptron CEM70 mount. The Cem70 handles the payload like a champ. I think it was about 60 lbs on there and I used 60lbs of counterweights all the way at the end for balance.

I used my ZWO174mm Astro camera with a Telvue “Big Barlow at around 3.5x. And I could of went higher but instead took advantage of the excellent seeing. After about 20 minutes, the seeing deteriorated a bit and then became hazy but I got a few more in.

I processed it with Autostakert 3 (AS3) then Put it in to Registax for Wavelets and then the finishing touches in PhotoshopCC with the Camera Raw filter.

I took 3500 frames and I stacked 8% of them to produce this final image..