Jawdropping Moon Shot.

Tom K.Tom K. Registered Users Posts: 817 Major grins
edited September 8, 2006 in Holy Macro
The following link contains the finest Moon photograph I have ever seen in my life. Tell me if you agree with me.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16822681
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  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    Very cool! It's neat to see what simply oversaturating something like the moon can do. At first when I saw it I said there was no way the picture wasn't colored in PS, but then I read his description of what he did to it. Again, very cool! I'm making it my background for the itme being.
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  • rjpatrjpat Registered Users Posts: 248 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    Wow
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  • ForeheadForehead Registered Users Posts: 679 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    Almost looks like the moon's being terraformed!
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    :): wow thanks for sharing
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    That's very cool. Are those false colors? I thought the surface was shades of gray, and the place had no atmosphere by which to introduce color?
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  • Twisted ImageTwisted Image Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    WOW nice pic thanks..
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2006
    That is amazing ... Thanks for the link !

    I found where he answered a question on the equip he used.

    This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.

    Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight.

    I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.

    Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.

    Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function.
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