show us your coloured moons.

[xtreemchaos]

if your like me and like to see colour in the moon, show us your pics. heres a few of mine to get us started. thanks for looking ,clear skys  charl. 

[Astro Imp]

Nice trio to get the discussion started, really like the last image.

Be interesting to see how others respond.

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Alan, yer quite a few people said thay like coloured moons,so i thought it be intresting to see other members shots in one place. clear skys charl.

[KY Cygni]

nice images chap I'm partial to some colour in O'l Moonie

from the eclipse

[xtreemchaos]

thats a great image mate, love the stars in the background, well framed, well done. thanks for posting charl.

[MattJenko]

This is my RGB image from a few months ago. These are tricky, as aligning the different images is harder than one might imagine.

[xtreemchaos]

thats a amazing image Matt, i bet it was tricky, theres a lot of detail what the RGB brings out. was that with the C8 you where using a while ago?. well done. clear skys charl.

[MattJenko]

Hi Charl, yes, that was with the C8. It has gone back to its rightful owner now, mores the pity. I thoroughly enjoyed my solar system imaging, a very welcome change from DSO work, although it does involve processing significantly more data!

[T-WING]

Here's one i've been tweaking with. It's a mosaic and original size is 6000x6000

[xtreemchaos]

nice one T-WING. well done. clear skys charl.

[Stub Mandrel]

I had to rise to your challenge Charl. This has taken me ages, I had to work out a way of doing it: turn the saturation right up to max, then play with the colour balance & levels until all the colours are present. Turn down the saturation and adjust gently to get good colour. Add a sharpened luminance layer on top.

[xtreemchaos]

nice one Neil, stunning colours. well done. thanks for posting charl.

[steppenwolf]

Here's an oldie from way back in 2008!

[xtreemchaos]

thats a nice one Steve,  there the colours i get with my alpha.  thanks for posting  charl.

[Joseki]

Can't contribute myself but some good images here.  I need to get a decent set of filters.  Something I want to try is imaging lunar geology - looking at the red-blue ratio, a bit like a poor-mans Clementine image http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/clementine/images/  (e.g. the section on "Aristarchus Region
Multispectral Mosaic of the Aristarchus Crater and Plateau" )

[xtreemchaos]

great link John, yer colour shows geology well ,very interesting, im going back to the page to digest some more. thanks for sharing  charl.

[Stub Mandrel]

I was sent this link which has some interesting stuff on visual observation of the colours.

http://www.baalunarsection.org.uk/2011-12-lsc.pdf

[Joseki]

I was sent this link which has some interesting stuff on visual observation of the colours.

http://www.baalunarsection.org.uk/2011-12-lsc.pdf

Thanks for posting that, the only other thing I've seen has been in Charles Wood's "The modern moon", and the scientific paper that describes the Clementine false colour method. 

[swag72]

Here's one from me from 5 years ago. I love the coloured moons but could never get the colours I was after, instead a rather mucky boring yellow colour. This will hopefully give people an impetus to get better!! It didn't me, I didn't take a moon pic after this

The moon in colour taken with a 900mm telescope by Sara Wager, on Flickr

[xtreemchaos]

i like that Sara, the detail is inpressive, id call it rustic. thanks for posting  charl.

[lukebl]

Here's one of mine. Extreme!

[xtreemchaos]

everythings extreme in space mate, great images. thanks for posting  charl.

[Bizibilder]

And one I prepared earlier:

And A silly saturation version:

[xtreemchaos]

great images Roger, there both outstanding. thanks for posting  charl.

[tich]

Here's a few of mine;

moon by tich_dude, on Flickr



Moon 21/12/13 by tich_dude, on Flickr

Lunar Eclipse 28-09-15 by tich_dude, on Flickr