Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Hi all,

Images of the Harvest Moon in colour and monochrome using a Nikon D5500 operating in video mode, Technosky 125mm f7.8, Powemate 2.5x and 50mm extension tube. Multiple video files (12 pane mosaic) were converted to SER files using PIPP, stacked using AS!3 and combined using MS-ICE into a single weak colour image. The RGB component channels were then separated out and processed in ImPPG to sharpen each one individually before being recombined into a single, sharpened, colour image. I used PixInsight for colour separation, recombination and enhancement.

Here are the results.

Enhanced colour...

Image20201001_Harvest_Moon_Colour2 by Stuart Green, on Flickr

Mono for comparison...

Image20201001_Harvest_Moon_Mono by Stuart Green, on Flickr

The Nikon doesn't really produce high quality images, but it's the only colour camera I have at the moment. I was just so glad the sky remained clear, for a while at least, during the session.

Thanks for looking.

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Re: Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Nice Full Moon Stu


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Re: Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Hi Stuart,
You were very lucky to even have seen the Moon and especially to get such a fine image.
The colouring and the mono version is fab.

Thanks for sharing
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A lot of work involved, but the results are worth it, Stu. Super.

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Re: Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Filipe Alves (a Portuguese amateur) published an article in Sky & Telescope in 2005 | Sky and Telescope, volume 110, number 7, page 120 and describing:

How to capture the colour of the Moon
by Filipe Alves

http://www.joaogregorio.org/blog/links/ ... ipe-alves/

Interesting stuff


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Excellent images. :bow

Though the first appears to have a rust problem.
Nothing a drop of WD40 won't cure. ;)


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Re: Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Wonderful images Stuart :bow :hamster:

This is definitely on my list of must do over the winter, it would be nice to do from my bedroom window I think :)

I love Rusted comment :lol:

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pedro wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:24 pm Filipe Alves (a Portuguese amateur) published an article in Sky & Telescope in 2005 | Sky and Telescope, volume 110, number 7, page 120 and describing:

How to capture the colour of the Moon
by Filipe Alves

http://www.joaogregorio.org/blog/links/ ... ipe-alves/

Interesting stuff
Thanks for the link, Pedro. Much appreciated.

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Montana wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:34 am Wonderful images Stuart :bow :hamster:

This is definitely on my list of must do over the winter, it would be nice to do from my bedroom window I think :)

I love Rusted comment :lol:

Alexandra
Hi Alexandra,
I’ve been waiting some time to capture a full Moon image in colour, so I was really pleased when the Harvest Moon showed itself from behind some hazy clouds for 30 minutes or so.

Regarding the rust...:) I did try to retain a more balanced colour pallet, but I ended up with a blue edge at the top and a green edge along the bottom of the image. I think there are some improvements to be made to the optics, maybe. I’m going to try reprocessing to see what improvements can be made on the processing side.

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Many thanks for the link Pedro, which I will try out on my last Lunar imagery session.

Cheers
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Re: Harvest Moon 1st October 2020

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Here's a further colour enhanced version. This time I just worked with the image 'out of camera' (after stacking and creating the mosaic), increasing the colour saturation, deconvoluting and sharpening in PixInsight. A bit of a blue tinge around the top edge :(

Image20201001_Harvest_Moon_Colour by Stuart Green, on Flickr

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Interesting a fab Stu - thanks

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A great full moon shot Stu, and the enhanced colour versions add a new dimension to a target we usually consider cold and grey !!!

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Many thanks, Terry and Brian.

Stu.


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