Earthshine

[Dennis]

Hi

I took this image of the "dark" side of the Moon bathed by Earthshine last night from our study window. The study is useful for getting to the western horizon and last night in particular, for protecting me from the hammer-like blasts of an incredibly strong wind.

I used my wife's bird spotting scope on top of the Vixen GP equatorial mount for an exposure of 20 seconds at ISO 400 on my Pentax istDS DSLR.

I have "artificially" boosted the brightness of the stars in the field by using a mask in Corel PhotoPaint 12.

Cheers

Dennis

[asimov]

That's a pretty cool photo Dennis!

[ballaratdragons]

Dennis,

Great shot.

Try masking out the light side of the moon and that pic would be perfecto!

[ving]

hey thats magnifique!
nice shot!

[Sausageman]

Great shot Dennis,
It didn't look like that without a scope though, I looked. LOL

Mike

[ving]

you are my earth shine
my only earth shine....

hey if you went wider you would have got venus in too hey?

[iceman]

Great shot Dennis!

[h0ughy]

I like that! I did a similar thing with the moon in the pleades shot earlier this month. Its cool when you tinker with the images and all the detail starts to come out? :2thumbs:

[Robby]

Very nice Denis. Love the effect of the background stars

[h0ughy]

dennis,
could you rework the image and reduce some of the brightest part of the over exposed moon just to see what it would look like?

[Dennis]

Okay H0ughy - here they are......1/45 second at 400 ASA and 4 seconds at 400 ASA.

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

nice one dennis :2thumbs: