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The Moon: What Your Budget Sees

From a smart scope to an 11-inch, raw and final

    Moon Index Tick what you can see.

    The captures

    What each rung is, and what it is not

    1. R3 · Celestron C11 EdgeHDFinal: the sharpest single frame of the capture video (there is no stack).Capture: the exported capture video behind my 8K Moon film, not the raw camera file.
    2. R2 · Seestar S50 ProFinal: the best of the raw frames stacked, native pixels; brightness and contrast up 25% for display.Raw: the original RAW AVI of the same capture (the 10 s with the sharpest frames; autofocus ran mid-recording); brightness and contrast up 25%, as on the final.
    3. R1 · Seestar S30 ProFinal: the best of the raw frames stacked, native pixels; brightness and contrast up 25% for display.Raw: the original RAW AVI of the same capture (the 10 s with the sharpest frames; autofocus blurs part of it); brightness and contrast up 25%, as on the final.

    Every rung is a real capture by Damon. Raw loops: demosaic, one sky pedestal, one fixed gain and a translation to hold the Moon on the final's grid; nothing sharpened, stacked or blended, in real time. Prices are US list prices, approximate; a + means part of the rig (camera, mount or reducer) has no price there. No capture dates or places are shown.