Saturday, March 14, 2026

February 4th Mineral and Mono Full Moon Image. On a Clear Night I Captured 400 Indivdual frames with a Modified for Astro Canon 450D DSLR Camera, Skywatcher ED80 Refractor Telescope and Orion 0.80 Focal Reducer Flattner. The 400 Frames were alligned and cropped in PIPP, Stacked and Wavelet sharpened in Registax and then the "Business End' of Colour Enhancement in Photoshop.

Even though the image of the moon is technically bigger without the Field Flattner/Reducer past experience demonstrated to me that the colour correction without it is inferior.      In the first instance(capture) and second instance(stacking and sharpening) a colour moon image will always appear mostly monotone.   It's the gentle layering of small incremental saturation enhancements( for this image 18) that tease out the colour in the light captured by the camera.

 

    

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