Moon from last night

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

Mosaic of 3x6mpix from an EOS300D, ISO200, 400th second LX90 F10, will get round to stacking them at some point, but this looks ok



I nad to shrink the original a lot, its very ver big.

[Whitters]

Chris,
Have you had a go at gettring the color out of it?

[Whitters]

There is an atticle in the August S&T which talks about axagerating the color in luna images to show up the different minerals in the moon.

[JohnP]

did you smooth this to reduce noise.....? looks like it's been put through NEAT Image - very impressive anyway - I would lkie to see full size..

John

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

No smoothing, the reverse, just did a bit of a unsharp mask to show the highlights and also suturation to bring out the difference in luner colours.

It was 3 images bound in iMerge, with 200 feather setting because of the original 6mpix images the standad 20 pixel feathering would not work.

Will so a Ha, SII and OIII moon when I get some time.

[Rick]

What does it look like without the unsharp mask? I was puzzled that some of the craters looked so bright, and that the limb was so bright in places too, but the unsharp mask would probably account for both.

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi Rick, the mark has contributed to some of it, but it really was bright and the right side of the moons was very very bright so even though I have dimmed it down a little there's still the brighter edge, I'll dig out the original one and stick it up here some time this week.  Also I'm trying to stack all the files I have (this is un-stacked) to bring out the detail, but at 6mpix per image I might have to load them into PS reduce the size then stack them, unless I can use AIP or something else to do the stacking, anyway that's another project.