Color Enhanced Full Moon 1/24/2005

amateur astronomy
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astrophotography

 

 

        ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING DETAILS

placholder Object: Moon
Constellation:  
Date: 1/25/2005
Location: Tierra Verde, Florida
Weather: Clear, 5/6 Transparency, Seeing 7/10
Instrument: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS @ F6
Mount: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS
Guiding: None
Camera: Nikon D70
Filters: None
Software: The Sky 6, MaxIm/Dl
Exposures: 10x1/1000  seconds @ ISO 200
Processing: Registax, PhotoShop CS, Neat Image
Remarks: A stack of ten images inspired by Russell Croman's enhanced color Moon image of 4/20/2005. The ten color images were stacked in Registax and the saturation was increased in 3 steps of 50% in PhotoShop. The image was then Gaussian blurred and merged with a luminance image from the same stack. The resulting image was cropped and reduced 50% for display.
   

 


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