(yet another) Telescopic Moon

pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
edited July 19, 2009 in Other Cool Shots
Here's a shot of the Moon through a f=2063mm f/13 refracting telescope. It didn't quite fit the crop sensor of my camera, so I've stitched this from two shots. I tried stacking, but poor seeing conditions meant the stacks were worse than the best single frames.

Diameter of the Moon in full size is about 2740 pixels - the first really big Moon I've got :D

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Edited as per request :D
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  • Bud1880Bud1880 Registered Users Posts: 500 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    It may be 'yet another' but it's a terrifically sharp one. Very, very nice. clap.gif

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited July 19, 2009
    Wonderful detail. Congratulations. thumb.gif One nit is that on my POS monitor, it looks as if there is a bit of blue fringing on the top and red fringing on the bottom. Should be easy to fix if you want to.
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    Thanks guys :D

    Yes there is a little bit of fringing, but the usual tools in LR or PS weren't able to get rid of it - I could lose the red only by making the cyan worse. The final sharpening bleached it a little bit and I left it at that rather than go in with three or four masked de-fringing layers. I suppose I could just desaturate the whole thing though..
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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    That turned out awesome. clap.gif
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    Terrific shot thumb.gif

    BTW, why not de-saturate? That would get rid of the fringe colors, or better said, we wouldn't even notice them.
    Randy
  • IPClarkIPClark Registered Users Posts: 2,355 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    Excellent detail... One day I'll get a shot as good as it :)
    Ian Clark
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited July 19, 2009
    rwells wrote:
    Terrific shot thumb.gif

    BTW, why not de-saturate? That would get rid of the fringe colors, or better said, we wouldn't even notice them.

    15524779-Ti.gif You could probably just paint the areas in question with a soft brush in desaturate mode. The rest of the pic is almost monotone anyway, so you don´t even have to be very careful.
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    Ok, I did the desaturation on the edges and the craters near the terminator, then pushed the saturation elsewhere.. and toned it a bit.

    Better?
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited July 19, 2009
    pyry wrote:
    Better?

    nod.gif Excellent.
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2009
    Llywellyn wrote:
    That turned out awesome. clap.gif

    Thanks Kerry :D
    IPClark wrote:
    Excellent detail... One day I'll get a shot as good as it :)

    I whole heartedly recommend visiting an observatory of your local astronomy society (because they'll probably have the big telescopes, and might let you shoot with them :D ).
    Richard wrote:
    nod.gif Excellent.

    Great! Thanks for the feedback :D
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