I shot the nearly 1st quarter Moon on May 13th. I'll make a separate blog post with more details, but my goal was to try lucky imaging with some python code I wrote for aligning and stacking frames. I stacked the best 1%, 2%, and 5% of 1,190 frames and the 5% stack (59 frames) looked the best to me. For a "drizzle algorithm" effect I upscaled each image by 3x before alignment — with the goal of revealing more detail captured between individual pixels of each frame. The processing times were very slow but I'm pretty happy with the results.

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