the moon from last night - one DSLR shot

[Ags]

I used a hockey-stick curve to enhance the contrast on the bright areas and an unsharp mask to pull out the crater detail. I'm entering this into a photography competition at work so constructive criticism is most welcome!

http://stargazerslounge.com/members/ags-albums-misc-picture14432-moon-slightly-sharpened.jpg

And here is a crop:

[nightfisher]

Ags, that is a superb image, hard to find fault, only thing i can see is tycho in wrong place, can you rotate it

[Ags]

I know, my camera thinks it's in the southern hemisphere! :-) I did rotate it but I prefer it this way up... In space all directions are equal.

[nightfisher]

true:D

[astropete]

what a cracking picture, so sharp so much detail. wow.

[Ags]

Thanks astropete! Hopefully I will win the photo competition at work... :-)

[LET-CA]

What a beautiful image! Thanks for sharing.

[todd8137]

nice

[Ags]

Thanks let-ca and todd8137. And welcome to the forum LET-CA!

[Ags]

I got mentioned on POTW!!!! Whoopee!

[armthorpe]

Nice shot, what were the camera settings?

[Ags]

It seems I was using ISO 800 and exposures of 1/200th second. This is through my F13 mak. I was using a higher ISO to try keep exposure length down. The moon was high and the air was very stable. One nice thing about my mak is it gives the maximum moon size on my camera's chip.

[Telrad]

This is wonderful image Ags, well done. Excellent!

[spaceboy]

Very nice AGS!

[Ags]

Thanks Telrad and Spaceboy.