The many flavours of a full moon (pic heavy)

[johnfosteruk]

Had some stunning views of tonight's full moon after the cloud cleared for about 2 hours visually. I didn't see any sign of the penumbral eclipse but I snuck in some data capture too before packing up 

All shot at 1/500 through an ND filter at ISO 100, shot in Raw and the crop out of Pipp is 2700x2700. Other details are in the bottom right corner.

I played around with processing tonight (because why not?) I didn't sharpen in Registax, straight from AS!2 to Photoshop and then produced some different 'finishes'. Let me know your favourite (or least favourite)

 

First, vanilla, sharpened when stacked in AS!2, 25% blended with unsharpened stack

Then with the white levels up to highlight the Albedo

Next, extreme, sharpened and contrasty

A little bit of colour teased out

And an invert

Edited September 16, 2016 by johnfosteruk

[Yamez]

stunning set of full moon images. I personally love the second one, looks so sharp and crisp with lots of detail. Brilliant job, sadly it was cloudy so no full moon images this month for me

[todd8137]

Hi a great set of images and some good detail  in all i prefer the  4th lone out the set 

patn

[johnfosteruk]

Thanks guys. I think the second is my gave too Yamez. 

[xtreemchaos]

some great shots there John, it hard to pic a fav, there all good, can i pic two, knew ya wouldnt mind. i pick two and three. thanks charl.

[johnfosteruk]

Cheers Charl. 

[Aussie Dave]

Fantastic work there John, wonderful detail you've captured with the 3200.