The Moon

In contrast to deep space photography with quite lengthy exposure times, we now need exactly the opposite, as short as possible exposures.

The idea is, to counteract atmospheric turbulences which will blur the image and hide the finer structures with too long exposures. Using very short exposures increase the chance to capture crisp clear images from those short moments the turbulences did not change, yet the images are still slightly distorted compared to others.

This is called lucky imaging.

For this project the exposure time was set to 3mSec and I captured 600 images. The preferred method is to record an uncompressed video in SER format.

Applications like Autostakkert are then used to select only the best images, pick a reference frame, correct all other frames for atmospheric distortions and stack everything together so that finer structures stay preserved.

I intentionally used a color camera for this image, since correcting atmospheric distortion across channels taken with a monochrome camera, is much more difficult.