99% Full Moon

[iceman (Mike)]

This image of the 99.1% Full Moon was captured on Tuesday night, 20th August from my backyard using my Canon 6D and ED80 telescope.

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Canon 6D, ED80 telescope @ ~1000mm FL, ISO250, 1/100s exposures.

I snapped 130 images but with the unsteady atmosphere, I only used 30 in the final stack. Sharpening was done using wavelets in Registax, followed by contrast and greyscale in Photoshop.

Image 2 is an embarrasing pic of my dirty telescope gear with my 6D

It reaches a focal length of around 1000mm, which almost fills the frame of the 6D, as you can see from the Live View shot in pic 3.

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Thanks for looking.

[gregbradley]

A wonderfully sharp image. It looks great.

Greg.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Excellent result Mike, sharp as.

Regards
Trevor

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 sharp as. Maaann.... that scope needs a good mopping or photoshop job.

[Lee]

I was going to say the same.... great pic, scope needs a wet-one!

[Astro_Bot]

That is tack sharp (whereas everything I try comes out kinda fuzzy).

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

That is a super disc - gotta look at the Moon soon!

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Very nice image there Mike. Good contrast and sharp!

Ted

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Great image from such an embarrassingly dirty scope setup....

Well done.

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Absolute Cracker Mike.

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

And yes, the scopes are embarrassingly dirty. If it wasn't white it wouldn't be so noticeable

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Now that's a beautiful Full Moon, it just goes to show that the Moon is never dull. Very nice and sharp Mike, I like the contrasty look.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Very nice, contrasty image, Mike