Bonfire night moon

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

After seeing some stunning moons posted, I thought that it would be an idea to get my butt in gear and have a bash with the Skeelscope and my D50 DSLR. Then I though, why not up the colour as Noel Carboni did?

What do you think? I quite like it.

Captain Chaos

[Andrew*]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

I've never seen so much colour detail on the moon before. That just stunning! It makes it seem so much more of a real and solid object. Wonderful image. A little over-processed i think, but still very impressive

AP

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

And here's one (a bit bigger) where I didn't mess up the colours.

So the details:-

300mm f/5.3 hand crafted (home made) Newtonian telescope

Nikon D50 DSLR using a 2" nosepiece and T ring, no filter

100 shots at 1/4000 second ISO1600 (yes I know.. Doh!)

Images stacked in Registax and saved as a 16bit TIFF format file.

Levels and curves adjusted in Photoshop CS2

For the "false" colour image I just went into adjustments and slid the saturation slider all the way over, for the "normal" colour one I did a despeckle and used the Smart Sharpen function.

Note to self - ISO1600 is normal for Astrophotography EXCEPT FOR THE MOON!

Captain Chaos

[Caz]

Both moons are equally as stunning, but the first image with its colour, gives it that edge 8)

Caz

[Andrew*]

I think both are simply fantastic. Love the groovey colours on the first and the groovey contrast in the second!

AP