Bored, clear sky and no DSO's

The big unsharp mask by Russel Croman starts at step 13 is this link

www.rc-astro.com/resources/index.html

You can do it with anything to avoid burning out the brighter zones in an image and enhancing fainter detail. You can aslo use it selectively sharpen areas.

Seanie I increased the brightness for you aswell. If you would like it in green with a cheesy smell let me know :lol: .

The H alpha filter was purely to reduce the amount of light hitting the ccd otherwise I would just get a saturated blob.

You're ok for the cheese, there's enough of it going around here to last...

If you had taken the mosaic without the H alpha filter, and maybe used far less exposure times, would that have helped in brightness, and then maybe sharpness at all do you think?

Seanie.

Seanie, I had the ccd at its lowest possible exposure setting even with the H Alpha. The only thing that could improve the sharpness would be more images. I had another go on the 14th and took 30 images per frame of the mosaic and stacked only those that had a quality of 80% or better.

This is a BIG image........... ancarraigobservatory.co.uk/Moon14thMay2008.htm

Personally i dont think it needs sharpening. I think it looks great just as it is.