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LRGB Image of the Moon, TEC 140, 24 Dec 2020 Technical Details This image of The Moon is a composite picture taken with my TEC140 refractor and an ASI174M high speed mono camera through Baader LRGB and Neodymium filters – the same filters that can be used for Deep Sky imaging (and I have used them for exactly that purpose too).Moon is in a 73% waxing gibbous phase in the constellation of Taurus.I captured 2000 frames through the Baader luminance filter and another 2000 through the neodymium filter.  I then registered and combined the master image from each of these with Pixelmath with scaling.  I used Multi-Scale linear transformation to sharpen the image and a very slight HDR transformation to bring out the fainter detail.  This created the master luminance.Each master R, G and B sub is the best 50% of 5000 frames. I registered the separate RGB channels with…