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Took this on Saturday night, don’t think it was 100% full but near enough for me! I had to do the moon once so here we go! Stacked something like the best 30% of 3,000 frames. Taken through my Explore Scientific ED80 with an ASI120mc. Lucky I have a focal reducer it only just fit in the frame! Had to keep slewing the scope while taking the images so it didn’t drift off. (Wasn’t accurately polar aligned)
Very nice! Not overly sharpened and lots of colour on the moon, not what I’m used to back home.
Thanks 🙂
I need to pick your brains on this one – specifically the colour :)…. i’ll try to remember next time i see you!
It’s surprisingly easy! 🙂 You just need a planet camera like the ASI120, pretty cheap. And a very wide field scope! With the focal reducer it only just fit in mine, a couple mm top and bottom. The colour is already there as well, just need to know how to bring it out 😉
Yeh..it’s the colours. I haven’t seen a moon shot like this before. Congrats Josh. (And you should have been at the lecture on Tuesday 🙂 )
Thanks 🙂 I would have loved to have been there but I’m having lots of troubles with guiding on my mount at the moment and I can’t spend a clear night not trying to fix it lol
I’ll give you a hint at how to get the colour, it’s the last thing I did, after stacking, sharpening and then photoshop noise reduction and so on.
This is the big secret!
Slide the saturation up a little bit. Some people do it a lot and they get yellow and red in there as well which shows different elements on the surface but to me, it looks way over saturated. I prefer looks much better than the naked eye and believable 🙂
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