Craters

• Telescope: Askar FRA 500 (90-mm aperture)
• Mount: ZWO AM5 (strain-wave gear drive)
• Autoguiding: N/A
• Controller: ZWO ASIair
• Optical Configuration: Flat-field quintuplet Petzval refractor (f/22.4 w/ 4x Barlow)
• Filter: Infrared (Baader 2-inch, 685-nm IR pass-filter)
• Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600-MM Pro
• Camera Gain: Zero
• Sensor Temperature: Ambient
• Video: 2.5 min. @ 960P, 1,280 x 960 resolution
• Calibration Frames: N/A
• Pre-Processing & Processing: AutoStakkert; PixInsight
• Post-processing: Photoshop CC
• Imaging Location: Los Angeles, Calif.

This image of our next-door neighbor was processed from a 2.5-min. video shot in infrared (details above). The “lucky-imaging” video was pre-processed using AutoStakkert to reduce blurring caused by atmospheric turbulence. Further blur reduction was done with RC-Astro’s BlurXTerminator AI tool in Pixinsight, with some additional sharpening in Photoshop. Finally, I cropped the image to a 9:16 aspect ratio ideal for cell-phone wallpaper display.