There was high thin cloud that spoiled the contrast somewhat and the seeing was pretty average.
I shot RAW for both stills and video and worked out that I can overexpose the Moon by 2 f/stops and do a bit of tone mapping to get features on both Moon and Saturn.
Done with two telescopes:
1) Full disk of the Moon with Stellarvue SVT80 f/6 + 2x teleconverter, Sony NEX5N 1 FPS shooting, 50x real speed playback
2) 22" SDM f/3.6 with Canon 6D in 5x crop RAW video mode (Magic Lantern). 12.5 FPS video recording, 8x real speed playback
A video frame is attached (downsized from 1920x1080 to fit into 250KB limit)
I shot RAW for both stills and video and worked out that I can overexpose the Moon by 2 f/stops and do a bit of tone mapping to get features on both Moon and Saturn.
I'd say that worked pretty well. I've been processing to a fairly dark lunar image with bracketed exposures, but I think this result gives a more natural impression of the brightness difference between the two bodies, while giving us plenty of lunar detail to satisfy.
No, it is not alpha any more and is part of the nightly builds on magilantern.fm
There are few glitches when displaying the RAW video but nothing major.
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Originally Posted by Logieberra
Very nice Alex!
Separately, Magic Lantern on 6D? Is that an Alpha, very early days build?
Hi Alex,
What a fantastic job you did with this movie! Can I have permission to use it in my lectures on Princess Cruises please? (email to starrylady@hotmail.com if you would, ta).
Cheers
Lesa
