Critique on my moon shots completely changed my approach

A guy in a Facebook astrophotography group told me my stacked lunar images looked 'mushy' and I was probably oversharpening in Registax. He was right, I was pushing the wavelets way too hard trying to get detail from 4 inch scope. Dialed it way back and dropped the ISO from 1600 to 400, and my last capture of the terminator near Clavius crater actually shows real texture now. Anybody else struggle with knowing when to stop tweaking settings?

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dakotawood22d ago

Lower ISO was smart for cutting noise but 400 might lose shadow detail on darker terminator areas.

xena122d ago

@dakotawood you're right, I probably lost a few shadow details along with my dignity that day.

christopher_wells422d ago

400 ISO losing shadow detail? Come on @xena1, unless you're pixel peeping at 400% zoom, nobody's gonna notice that noise floor from a real world print.