Full Mineral Moon in HaRGB - December 11th 2019

[eshy76]

Hi everyone!

I will throw my own colour moon image into the mix alongside all the excellent recent images! I've taken a similar type of image of a gibbous moon previously, but this is the first time I've shot a 100% moon in this way. I really am enthralled by the true colours of our original satellite!

Shot using FireCapture, stacked using AutoStakkert! and post-processed in Pixinsight.

1 minute each of AVI video for Ha, R, G and B filters. Ha used as Luminance.

William Optics ZS73, iOptron CEM25P, ZWO ASI1600 MM Pro and Astrodon filters.

Higher res version here.

Thanks for looking!

[old_eyes]

Very nice. More different colours than you usually see.

[eshy76]

1 hour ago, old_eyes said:

Very nice. More different colours than you usually see.

Thank you!

I'm always nervous about pushing things too far, but in this case I worked only with global saturation and contrast, as opposed to trying to bring out specific colours, so hopefully I kept everything in proportion! Amazing diversity of colour, as you say, and the surprising one for me (as someone much more focused on DSOs), was the bright blue Aristarchus crater in the top left of the image, which turned out to be a thing, rather than my initial suspicion of a post-processing glitch!