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Old 24-November-2007, 04:17 PM
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My latest attempt, much improved from a month ago. Only had about half an hour of clear evening sky on Thu 22 Nov 2007 at 7:30pm but fortunately having an observatory means you can make the most of the limited opportunity.

Moon was 95% waxing gibbous phase, 38° above horizon in the south-east.

Canon EOS 400D was attached to an 8" SCT at prime focus via a f/6.3 focal reducer. 20 RAW images at 1/400sec, ISO 200 were taken then converted to 16-bit TIFs. 16/20 were selected and stacked by Registax then further processed using Photoshop CS and NeatImage.

Cheers from a rather driech Scotland at the moment.

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My latest attempt, much improved from a month ago. Only had about half an hour of clear evening sky on Thu 22 Nov 2007 at 7:30pm but fortunately having an observatory means you can make the most of the limited opportunity.

Moon was 95% waxing gibbous phase, 38° above horizon in the south-east.

Canon EOS 400D was attached to an 8" SCT at prime focus via a f/6.3 focal reducer. 20 RAW images at 1/400sec, ISO 200 were taken then converted to 16-bit TIFs. 16/20 were selected and stacked by Registax then further processed using Photoshop CS and NeatImage.

Cheers from a rather driech Scotland at the moment.

Eric
Very nice non-driech Moon!
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Hi Eric.
very nice image of our Moon. Great work clear skies to you Paul
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Once agian, lovely work. It would make a lovely poster.

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Very pretty. Sometimes it's dreech here, too.
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the first image is very nice than the second one, it projects some blue shade into it, is it camera's effect !, or may be a blue-moon !.

Nice image by you
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the first image is very nice than the second one, it projects some blue shade into it, is it camera's effect !, or may be a blue-moon !.

Nice image by you
See his earlier post and the link he includded for an explanation of what he is doing here:
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Very sharp and crisp!, Simply beautiful Eric
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