Hi guys
My first astrophoto in a looong time! Like riding a bike? Not quite.. everything was slower - setting up, preparing, focus, settings, processing..
And this was just with the DSLR and the ED80 kit. I put the 12" on later and even forgot how many counterweights I needed!
These photos were taken on Monday night 19th April, early in the evening so the full Moon was still quite low in the sky, and the seeing was pretty ordinary.
I used my ED80 with 40D and 2x barlow (plus extension tubes to get it to focus). Unfortunately the Moon was bigger than the CMOS sensor, so I had to do a mosaic to get the whole moon.
I took about 58 frames each of the bottom section and top section, stacked them separately in Registax, joined them in AutoPano Pro and processed with Wavelets in Registax and then in Photoshop for saturation and contrast.
I used LiveView on the 40D to focus and also used EOS Utility to capture the images straight to the laptop. It's the first time I've used LiveView in that way, it works well!
The coloured image shows the various types of iron and mineral deposits on the Moon.
Enough blah..
Large images:
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Full Moon in Saturated Colour
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Full Moon
I'm pretty pleased with it for my first image in a looong time.
Thanks for looking, feedback welcome.