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Old 27-11-2012, 05:18 AM
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A late November Moon

It was a clear Saturday afternoon with my home chores out of the way, so I took the opportunity to setup my ED80 telescope and mount to capture the waxing gibbous Moon (about 4 days out from Full Moon).

I captured the Moon against the evening twilight sky, so the background was still blue and it made colour balance a bit more difficult than normal. It would’ve been easier and better to wait an hour or two until the Moon was against a black sky, but I had to head inside for time with the family.

As usual I’ve produced a few versions. The first is a saturated colour version, where the colours of the Moon are brought out in processing, as well as a BW version, and a comparison showing a RAW frame vs the processed ones.

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The processed version was made up using 80 frames stacked in Registax to improve signal to noise ratio, followed by wavelets for sharpening. It was then worked in photoshop, including noise reduction, levels, curves and saturation. The techniques are described in my blog post, How to Create a Saturated Colour Full Moon.

Also some gear shots..

I also had my Sigma 400mm lens on the Canon 40D and took some shots at different focal lengths for comparison. They’ll be the subject of a future post.

Thanks for looking.
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Old 27-11-2012, 07:15 AM
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Nice images, Mike! Interesting to see your set-up, too
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Old 27-11-2012, 08:56 PM
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Nice images Mike. (^_^)
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Old 28-11-2012, 05:26 AM
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Thanks Laurie and Troy!
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Old 28-11-2012, 03:25 PM
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Just awesome!!
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Old 28-11-2012, 07:50 PM
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Very nice. Super sharp.

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Old 28-11-2012, 08:06 PM
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Lovely crisp shots, Mike!
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Old 30-11-2012, 11:20 AM
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Very sharp moon. For some reason I like picture no. 4 the most, the setup, the moon on the sky and in your camera.
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Old 30-11-2012, 11:25 AM
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Thanks guys!

I love #4 too! The HDR mode on the iPhone handled it very well!
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Just popping in to see what's new. Great images Mike! The cables in the "Setup" pictures, what do they connect to? I am not a "high tech" imager yet... lol

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Old 05-12-2012, 05:21 AM
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Thanks Dana!

There's not much, it was a pretty low-tech setup.

Both cameras had an intervalometer attaached, and the only other cables were power for the mount, and the hand controller for the mount.
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Nice crisp results Mike!
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Very nice presentation....
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