Full Moon using the Skymax 127 mak

[bigal1]

Hi all well tonight was nice and clear for a time and the moon looked great so i couldn't resist snapping a few pics of it , equipment used was a Skywatcher Skymax 127 mak scope and a Canon 1000D camera . The final image is a stack of 46 seperate ones processed in registax 6 and photoshop cs5 .

Regards Alan

[jasonT-5]

looks awesome! great shot

Jason

[scoobee]

liking the image, just wished the weather was on my side to get out.

[David Smith]

NIce image.

[PapaPlanets]

Lovely shot

[JamesF]

Indeed. Very nice.

James

[sologuitarist61]

Excellent

[BuzzBomb]

Very good. Loads of great detail.

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[AndyHa]

great image - inspired me to have a go next clear full moon we get

[JamesF]

great image - inspired me to have a go next clear full moon we get

Have a go whenever you can get a clear view of the Moon for twenty minutes or so. In many respects the Moon is more interesting when it isn't full because the face-on lighting means there are few shadows to show up the details of the landscape.

James

[todd8137]

Ottawa love the moon nice image

pat

[bigal1]

Thannks for the comments , i think James has it spot on in regards to the full moon . With no shadows it shows as a quite a flat surface compared to say half moon where you get some very nice shadows which adds a lot of depth to the image also i find it a lot harder to get focus spot on when the moon is full ( also due to the lack of depth ) .

[JamesF]

i find it a lot harder to get focus spot on when the moon is full ( also due to the lack of depth ) .

Me too. Last night I ended up focusing using the craters right on the limb to judge focus which is nowhere near as easy as using features on a nice clear terminator.

James

[Stargazer33]

Nice photo Alan. I love the subtle colours in the Mare.

[JamesF]

Nice photo Alan. I love the subtle colours in the Mare.

It was only really when I started taking my own Moon images and looking at them really closely that I realised how much variation there is in colour in the maria. It's quite surprising how much detail there is there. I guess it's quite easy to fall into the trap of thinking of the moon as bright white/mid grey/dark grey and little else.

James