Mineral Moon 29th December

[Whistlin Bob]

Here’s a picture of last night’s full moon. I’ve spent a good part of the today learning some new processing techniques from the page below:

How To Photograph And Edit a Mineral Moon | Light Stalking

Unfortunately the steps are all in Photoshop, so I had to work out how to do them in GIMP, but it seems to have worked. I wanted to see if I could do this entirely in free software, but couldn’t get the noise reduction to work so there’s a bit of Pixinsight in here, but otherwise it’s all done with free stuff.

Capture details are: Canon DSLR on 130PDS – Disc is stack of 30 of 1/500s, halo is a single jpeg at 1/10 sec

Processing is: Converted to avi by Pipp, stacked in Autostakkert, Saturation and Layers in GIMP and Noise reduction in Pixinsight MLT.

 

[Craney]

That is a really  nice piece of work.    It has that  stand-out artistic quality  combined with a good  scientific underpinning.

You have given me a focus for tonight.

Cheers, Sean.

 

[Whistlin Bob]

Thanks Shaun, that's a really kind comment.