Hi,
Borrowed a Meade 8" Newtonian from a colleague, and managed to capture these shots of the moon on 30 Jun. Set up is CP995 + DCL28 (eyepiece/adapter) + telescope. ISO 100, 1/60 sec. Focus-locked to infinity on camera and manually focused using the telescope focuser and LCD screen.
The full-moon shot is stitched from 9 different shots, so the full-size resolution is 3500 X 3500 pixels. What's shown here is at 750 X 750 pixels.
The second shot is one of the shots that made up the full-moon stitched shot.
Processing in PS includes the following:
- Manual stitching
- Convert Green channel into grey scale
- Levels and Curves to enhance contrast
- Despeckle
- USM
- Resize for web posting
Your comments are welcomed!
Thanks for viewing.
- Roy
By the way, this is my all-time favourite moon shot so far, taken last Jun using CP995 + DCL28 + Meade ETX90RA:
Borrowed a Meade 8" Newtonian from a colleague, and managed to capture these shots of the moon on 30 Jun. Set up is CP995 + DCL28 (eyepiece/adapter) + telescope. ISO 100, 1/60 sec. Focus-locked to infinity on camera and manually focused using the telescope focuser and LCD screen.
The full-moon shot is stitched from 9 different shots, so the full-size resolution is 3500 X 3500 pixels. What's shown here is at 750 X 750 pixels.
The second shot is one of the shots that made up the full-moon stitched shot.
Processing in PS includes the following:
- Manual stitching
- Convert Green channel into grey scale
- Levels and Curves to enhance contrast
- Despeckle
- USM
- Resize for web posting
Your comments are welcomed!
Thanks for viewing.
- Roy
By the way, this is my all-time favourite moon shot so far, taken last Jun using CP995 + DCL28 + Meade ETX90RA: