From the camera to your feed- the steps each frame goes through. (Patreon)

The raw images as they are captured by my camera. Bit of wind shaking the scope, but looks great otherwise! It is intentionally underexposed, which allows me to reduce bloating of bright features while keeping exposures short to minimize motion blur. Easy to brighten after. Be patient- this may take a bit to load:

Single frame of that video:

About 2000 frames stacked:

The stacked file sharpened (this only workes because so many frames are stacked, otherwise it would just sharpen around the noise):

The image brightened linearly to preserve data integrity:

Brightened non-linearly and incorporated overexposed images for Earthshine and stars (captured separately)

Saturating the scene to resolve color

Final image- with processing applied to each tile, stitched together: