Second attempt at the moon...

[Digz]

This is my second attempt at shooting the moon.

A single shot with my D200 at prime focus with my SW250. I managed to dismantle the 1.25" adapter to avoid the use of the barlow to achieve focus:

Comments, critique and feedback on how to improve much appreciated.

Thanks for looking.

[resonator77]

very nice,

did you do any post processing?

[Bizibilder]

Seems to be sharp and in focus - I now know how tricky that can be!

[Digz]

Hi resonator, I only applied some high pass sharpening to the original file.

I know what you mean Bizibilder, this was one in a series of shots where the focus was shifted slightly to ensure at least one shot is nice and sharp.

[resonator77]

big improvement from "with barlow" one

[Digz]

It certainly is, Im quite pleased with it

[TopHouse]

That is VERY VERY nice, it 'might' benefit from some very gentle deconvolution in astra image and a little curve adjustment in photoshop but as i said, it's very nice as is, one for the wall maybe?

[Digz]

Thanks for the comments Dion, you'll have to excuse me Im very new to this but what is deconvolution??

[TopHouse]

OK, if you get hold of a program called Astra Image, it's basically a graphics package aimed just at tweaking astro photos, the deconvolution is basically a sharpener but with more control over it.

look here :-

Astra Image - Image Processing Software

I'm still learning with it but it is very powerful, but you have to be gentle and be prepared to use undo a few times and just nudging settings at first.

[TopHouse]

I've just grabbed your pic and had a little go, as i said, i'm still learning with the software, and i think I've overdone it just a little, but it illustrates what it does. Astra image is worth getting hold of.

[TopHouse]

Arghh, it's lost some in the upload.

[Digz]

Ah sweet, thanks for the info. Ill have a look at the link.

The repost looks good, and certainly shows me what can be done, ty

[Digz]

Thats a shame, its only available on PC