More Lunar Imaging
December 4th, 2009
This is addition to my previous post really, as I had taken more images that I had not processed on Tuesday night. First off though I found my missing mosaic video section! This means I’ve been able to complete the image properly now, without the missing chunk. I’ve also left the colour in and applied a small gausian blue to smooth off some of the sharper edges.
The other data I wanted to process was a set of 30 full frame raw format images of the moon taken with the canon 1000D. These were then stacked in registax, tweaked with wavelets and then dumped out to gimp to adjust the colours. In this case I pushed the saturation levels right up, this brings out more of the subtle changes in the moons surface that the human eye really only see’s in shades of grey but the DSLR picks up. It’s an effect that I really enjoy and not possible with the mosaic above where every individual section has it’s own balance and variation.
hello your moon shots very nice iv jest started in astrophotograpy im usesing 1000d on the moon do i need high quality filter for moon the shots iv done r not to bad but not clear as some iv seen iv been useing live view for forcusing and a 2 + ballow i would love to know thanks
Hi Clive, the only filter I used on my moon shots was a cheap skywatcher light pollution filter. I use my laptop to control the camera as you can then view the image on a nice large screen which helps with getting the focus right. You might also want to look into getting (or making) a bahtinov mask and using that to focus on a bright start first.
This shot is also a stack of 30 images, processed in registax which greatly improves the data.
Tim.