The moon, inglorious technicolour

[johnfosteruk]

The title's not an error 

As I mentioned in the other thread on the 13th I had a bash at processing that night's image in colour.

As I also mentioned in that thread I had awful fringing, so it took a while to get something I was near happy with, although I'm still unsure. (edit - actually, looking at it full size again it's way over sharpened, I might redo)

Processing details in the other thread, exactly the same but this one's not been converted to mono obviously.  Colour processing finished off in PS for levels/saturation and a little extra sharpening of the lightness layer.

50% of full size

Full size

Extreme edition because I'm mad

This one's a little noisier as I just took the finished image and ramped the saturation and vibrance up to 60%

[Yamez]

never seen the moon in such a colour, none the less a nice image. I agree that the full size is a little oversharpened. How did you get such a colour, when i add saturation to my moon images it adds yellows, oranges, reds and blues.

[johnfosteruk]

1 minute ago, Yamez said:

How did you get such a colour, when i add saturation to my moon images it adds yellows, oranges, reds and blues.

I think it's as a result of what I had to do to get rid of the yellow fringing. I adjusted saturation first (converting to lab colour in PS then increasing contrast in the a & b channels) then converted back to RGB. This left me with a horrid yellow/green fluorescent ring around the edge so I used selective colour to reduce the yellow levels and this is what I was left with, more or less.

[Dave In Vermont]

That's really out of this world! Very nice indeed.

The only one I've seen like it before is below. But your's blows it away!

Did I mention I'm into colour?

Dave

 

 

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

One lunar pizza coming up!

 

Serious though, very nice images. Really gives an idea of how diverse the composition of the lunar surface is

[michaelmorris]

That's a great shot.  

From my understanding, the blue areas in the maria are old titanium-rich lava flows.  The extra weight of these lava flows caused the floor of these mare to subside. The brown layers are more recent,  titanium-poor flows.   Which tended to accumulate in the more low lying areas in the centre of mare.    You can see good examples of this in Mare Serenitatis, Mare Crisium and the NW corner of Oceanus Procellarum.

[laudropb]

Very nice image. The colour certainly adds something different.

[Stub Mandrel]

I had the same green fringe problem with my recent colour supermoon.

But you want TECHNICOLOR...?

 

[johnfosteruk]

21 hours ago, Dave In Vermont said:

That's really out of this world! Very nice indeed.

The only one I've seen like it before is below. But your's blows it away!

Did I mention I'm into colour?

Dave

 

So you like colour then Dave  seriously though thanks very much.

[johnfosteruk]

13 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

One lunar pizza coming up!

 

Serious though, very nice images. Really gives an idea of how diverse the composition of the lunar surface is

Pepperoni please

Thanks Michael. I do like these colour jobs for just that reason although I'm rather looking forward to using something with more accurate colour reproduction than the Nikon, and a tube that doesn't occasionally give me 'orrible fringing.

[johnfosteruk]

9 hours ago, michaelmorris said:

That's a great shot.  

From my understanding, the blue areas in the maria are old titanium-rich lava flows.  The extra weight of these lava flows caused the floor of these mare to subside. The brown layers are more recent,  titanium-poor flows.   Which tended to accumulate in the more low lying areas in the centre of mare.    You can see good examples of this in Mare Serenitatis, Mare Crisium and the NW corner of Oceanus Procellarum.

Thanks Michael, tidbits like that are the reason I love the colour images, I've been reading a lot about the geology myself over the years including this piece on space.com which has a lovely mosaic put together from LRO data showing the diversity.

And of course this is a priceless resource to anyone interested in the geologic diversity of our constant companion in the sky.

[johnfosteruk]

 

7 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I had the same green fringe problem with my recent colour supermoon.

But you want TECHNICOLOR...?

Now you're just being daft but now you are, so am I. How about?

[johnfosteruk]

8 hours ago, laudropb said:

Very nice image. The colour certainly adds something different.

Thanks John.