first moon pic

[lightorb]

First moon pic with my 130 skywatcher and a fujifilm finepix av120

Just wondering if I could improve this with gimp and how?

http://stargazerslounge.com/members/lightorb-albums-moon-pics-picture9820-moon-17thmarch-2010.jpg

[kris h]

Very nice image lightorb

[lightorb]

Thankyou

going to try some more shots tonight looks like north west is going to have a good night for the moon.

[RogerTheDodger]

Nice! better than I have managed so far

[Sharpiejas]

Nice start, you should get plenty of practice tonight!

[Jannis]

nice indeed. is it a single frame? if so, you could get a more clear pic from stacking several. air turbulense isn't friendly for moon pics because of the short exposure time and you get it "as it is", unlike with DSO where a 30 sec sub by itself in a way mroe of less averges out the air turbulense. but can't answer how many you need as i just posted that question myself in the image help category 5 min ago...

Edit: but for a camera that you have, i must say it's very good. keep going!

[malc-c]

Hope you don't mind, but I've done some basic adjustments in Photoshop to your image, nothing more than two clicks of sharpen and tweaking the contrast and brightness

Shows that the 130P is an excellent bit of kit and with out having to spend a fortune on cameras you get quality shots that come up wekk with a bit of post processing

[lightorb]

love the improvement

Do them clicks work in gimp too

This was my best for tonight due to it brightness.

http://stargazerslounge.com/members/lightorb-albums-moon-pics-picture9862-fri-18thmarch.jpg

going to spend the weekend learning to edit photos,

Any direct links by anyone would be apprciated.

[lightorb]

nice indeed. is it a single frame? if so, you could get a more clear pic from stacking several. air turbulense isn't friendly for moon pics because of the short exposure time and you get it "as it is", unlike with DSO where a 30 sec sub by itself in a way mroe of less averges out the air turbulense. but can't answer how many you need as i just posted that question myself in the image help category 5 min ago...

Edit: but for a camera that you have, i must say it's very good. keep going!

yep a single frame got stacker program today will try that over weekend

also i was surprised by the camera too

not to bad video recording too

[Stargazing_Cliff]

nice first pic

[tibbs1972]

Nice shot, similiar to the shots I took last night with EOS 1000d.

Lots of detail.