I'm not sure what Reddit will do to the file when I upload it, but this was the result of stitching together 42 individual shots taken with my Svbony 305 planetary camera on my Celestron 9.25 SCT, which ended with a 52 megapixel final image. 2 min videos shot at 22fps, best 10% stacked in Autostakkert4, wavelets sharpened in Registax6, and then an old program Microsoft image composite editor managed to stitch things together. Fortunately the sky stayed clear for the 3 hours or so I needed to capture the videos. Ran out of hard drive space halfway through. Hardest part was trying to make sure I hadn't missed and part of the disk (after stitching I was actually left with a small blank sliver in the bottom right quadrant, perhaps 1% of the total moon, which I sneakily filled in using GIMP).

by SCE1982

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