Wolf Moon 1-Jan-2018

[MarkS]

Here's the colour enhanced "Wolf" Moon on the night of New Year's Day.

Sony A7S on the Celestron C11 with Starizona large format corrector.

70 frames at 1/500sec stacked in AutoStakkert!3 using Bayer Drizzle then deconvolved with a Gaussian point spread function (stddev 1.6 pixels) in my own DCON software.

It's not as sharp and detailed as the one from a few days ago because the seeing was not as good.



Larger version here: http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/2018/moon20180101_size100.png

I think it might be a bit too blue overall so I'll give the colour balance and saturation another go.

Having said that, the 2nd full moon this month will be a blue moon

Mark

[Carole]

As we all know the Moon is much better imaged when it's not a full Moon, but this is still a fine image.  That is such an amazing camera, such fine detail and the edge of the Moon showing detailed mountains and craters.

Carole

[Hugh]

Got to say that the Moon is my favourite object and as much as I like your deep sky stuff, it is great to see some Moon shots in there as well ~ perhaps a couple for 'Picture of the Month'?

Best

Hugh