May 2011 Full Moon in Colour

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

Another month, another Full Moon. Trying to get back into the rhythm of astrophotography, during the May Full Moon we had great clear skies and I setup the ED80 and Canon 40D to capture some more images of our nearest celestial neighbour.

I used the same setup and same procedure as my last capture in April, but this time stacked about 65 images. The seeing was terrible, even at the short focal length of approx 1000mm. But I'm happy with the results here.

I think these ones are sharper and I like the greater contrast in these when compared with my April efforts.

Larger images here:
May 2011 Full Moon in Colour

Thanks for looking.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Love the colors. Nice but not overdone. Great details too.

[Troy]

Nice shots Mike and good to see you imaging again

[Clayton]

Nice shots Mike. I like both results.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Looking good Mike, a nice balance with the contrast and colour looks great.

Regards
Trevor

[Octane (Humayun)]

Mike,

Wow -- they both look fantastic. I really like the first one for its unusual saturation; the second has wonderful contrast.

Top shelf!

H

[anthony.tony]

It takes some practice to get the Colours right-Reguards Tony

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Very nice, great colour and great depth of contrast too

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shots, Mike....like the colour saturation in the first pic

[midnight (Darrin)]

Mike,

The moon is a fantastic subject and I enjoy its challenges. You have managed to control the contrast well without blowing out the highlights which I find difficult to control so well done. A hardware combo I can relate to so it's great to see this image!

Cheers,
Darrin...

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your comments. It means a lot.

It's nice to be back into it.. The Moon is great because it's so quick and easy to get a decent shot.

Don't need to be properly polar aligned, don't need *great* seeing (at that focal length) to get a good image, and the whole process can be over in 20 minutes.

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Very nice

[StephenM (Stephen)]

As the others have said, great contrast and colours Mike!

Cheers,
Stephen

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks Graeme and Stephen.

I've made this image of the Full Moon IOTW. It's a good chance to highlight the June Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse too!

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Very difficult to achieve - nice one Mike.

[Jaybee (John)]

Wow, Awesome image Mike, Loving the colour and the razor sharp detail.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Lovely shot ... of a horrible object



Mike

[John Hothersall]

Thats very nicely done, remember an interview with Neil Armstrong talking about the brown/tan colours on the surface even though dust was grey close up.

John.

[atalas]

Nice work Ice!

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by rcheshire

Very difficult to achieve - nice one Mike.

Thanks Rowland. It's quite easy to overdo it or introduce too much noise etc. It's hard to be subtle sometimes

Originally Posted by Jaybee

Wow, Awesome image Mike, Loving the colour and the razor sharp detail.

Thanks The seeing was terrible on this night so I'm hoping to have another try maybe in July and hope for better seeing to make it a bit sharper.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Lovely shot ... of a horrible object



Mike

Thanks Mike, you gotta love a full moon though With your narrowband work now, the Moon is no deterrent?

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Thats very nicely done, remember an interview with Neil Armstrong talking about the brown/tan colours on the surface even though dust was grey close up.

John.

Wow interesting, I hadn't heard that. Thanks John.

Originally Posted by atalas

Nice work Ice!

Thanks Louie, is nice to be back on the bike. Even though it still has training wheels and can only point at the Moon