Here are two images taken back to back less than a second apart. It shows dramatically what the term "Bad Seeing" is and can do to your photos of the moon. Both exposures are 1/125 sec at ISO 400 shot at f/9 through an Astro-Tech 6-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope.
In the first image notice the large mountain seen in profile along the limb of the moon (arrowed). In the very next shot it is gone and a depression now appears. These images were shot over some pine trees, and yes they will hold in some heat. Even your on body heat if you are standing downwind, or is it upwind, whichever, if the wind is blowing from your body toward the opening of the telescope will also create bad seeing. This is the main reason that astronomers both professional and amateurs will use long cables to isolate the telescope from themselves. The larger the instrument the more pronounced this effect is. One way to demonstrate it is to place a very out of focus star in live view of your camera and place your hand near the lens of the telescope or telephoto lens. Do this on an extremely cold night and you can actually see the heat currents. It resembles the heat currents one sees in the summertime on a hot pavement. By moving away from your instrument as much as possible as well as avoiding buildings, pine trees, pavement etc, your high resolution images should improve greatly. If you are shooting the moon, try to image it when it is at it's highest point in the sky. The lower you get to the horizon the greater the turbulence is in the atmosphere. Sort of like shooting something underwater looking up. I hope this helps in explaining one of the problems astrophotographers face and will help with those moon photos. One last point, if you happen upon a night when the stars are "not" twinkling and the moon is out, go for it because the atmosphere is steady.

I joined UHH earlier this year and posted a photo under the topic To Post-Process or Not Post-Process. Back then, I used iPhoto to enhance a rather bleak and plain photo I took in Iceland.

Below is the original image and one I did today in about five minutes, with a minimum of clicks, in Perfect Photo Suite 9. I used Perfect Enhance to Auto Tone, increased the highlights and detail, and added a slight vignette.

As the old ad used to proclaim, "I've come a long way, baby!" Yes?

My young great-grandson (now 7) has been fascinated with rocks and minerals for some time now. A while back I searched and found a source for "rocks for tumbling". I selected some for him to process on his tumbler and had them delivered to me. I figured I could examine them and be able to better discuss his hobby with him. I WAS AMAZED! Some of these stones are absolutely beautiful even before the tumbling! They also turned out to make excellent subjects for close-up photography. I have attached three subjects that I particularly liked! All these are pieces of larger rocks that have been fractured intentionally into usable sizes. They have had no other processing done to them.

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Bob

My young great-grandson (now 7) has been fascinated with rocks and minerals for some time now. A while back I searched and found a source for "rocks for tumbling". I selected some for him to process on his tumbler and had them delivered to me. I figured I could examine them and be able to better discuss his hobby with him. I WAS AMAZED! Some of these stones are absolutely beautiful even before the tumbling! They also turned out to make excellent subjects for close-up photography. I have attached three subjects that I particularly liked! All these are pieces of larger rocks that have been fractured intentionally into usable sizes. They have had no other processing done to them.
Hi Bob
Your Great-Grandson has good taste and a set of nice photos to go with it.
Craig
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Bob