My Best Moon EVER!!!!!!

[ballaratdragons]

Hi all,

I had to post this pic! It is (I believe) my best EVER Moon pic.

Captured tonight in howling winds and misty cloud!!!! :scared:

The statistics:
ED80 on Giant EQ mount (the Big Fella), Toucam 840k Pro II at Prime Focus.

Made up of 9 images (top left, top middle, top right, centre left, etc).

All 9 images are 500 frames each at: 15 FPS, Brightness - 50% , Gamma - 0%, Saturation - 100%, shutter 1/1000th, Gain 30%.

The 9 seperate sections stitched together in 'Autostitch'

I hope you like it as much as I do :)

[beren]

:thumbsup: Very nice Ken well done .....look at that ray system from Tycho :eyepop:

[EzyStyles]

great shot ken. are you using any filters to get the colours of the moon?

[ving]

hey ken, thorpy says its fully sick! :)

got some great colours in that and it nice and sharp too :)

[spacezebra]

Excellent pic

My computer gives this moon shot a green hue in places. Is that me!

Cheers Petra

[matt]

I can see the green tinges too, Petra.

Nice shot, Ken:thumbsup:

Very "contrasty"

[spudrick]

You should remember that the moon is made of Green Cheese! ;)
Great shot Ken and the stitched photos came out fantastic.

[Astroman]

hmm what can I say, great shot Ken.

[ballaratdragons]

No Eric, no filters.

That is the colour straight out of the Toucam. Yes, this shot seems to show a lot of green colouring but you can also make out some brown and purplish areas too.

I also did a version with the colours bumped up in PaintShop Pro to get a multi-coloured version but I think the hazy cloud filtered most of it out. It wasn't much different to the one above.

Here is a more subtle version for people who don't like 'coloured' Moon pics.

[Lester]

Good one Ken,

ED80s can really perform.

[ballaratdragons]

Yep Lester. It's pics like this that are a perfect example of the 'Apo' qualities of the ED's.

No Chromatic Abberation!

[matt]

I think Petra was asking the question to make sure there wasn't anything wrong with her screen?

Can't find any negative comment here directly relating to "coloured" moon pics:shrug:

[ballaratdragons]

:lol: No Matt, I wasn't meaning anyone thought negative. Just that some people prefer Grey Moon pics to bring out more contrast and detail. Often the image is treated to 'Grey Scale'.

I personally like both ways as they give differing effects. :thumbsup:

Here is the same image in Grey Scale so you can see the difference in effects.

[matt]

Me too, Ken.

I like being able to see the different elements contained on the lunar surface, creating those different colours.

Good stuff