Hi Resolution shot of the moon
Dec 31, 2020 16:14:55 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
The other day while taking some shots of the conjunction on December 21st, I noticed that the first quarter moon was out, so I also took some 4K video of the moon with my DSLR. Today I finally got around to processing the Lunar images. I found that I needed 4 video's to get the entire moon captured at the 4096mm focal length I was using. I then stacked each video and then stitched the images together to get final image. The first image shows the final image in fairly natural color, the next image shows the moon with the color greatly enhanced to bring out the color variations that do occur on the lunar surface. The next 4 images are the individual stacked images from each video used to create the final image. All questions, comments and suggestions are welcome. (Download and double download for the best view). For those interested I used PIPP for conversion of the .mov video files to .ser files. The .ser files where then passed to Autostakkert for stacking and microsoft ICE was used to stitch the images together. Pixinsight was used to sharpen the images. Picture window was used to enhance the color and convert the images shown below into .jpeg from .tif files. Some vibrancy was also added to the enhanced color image using RawTherapee.
final image
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Enhanced color image of the moon
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stacked video frames of the southern lunar pole
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stacked video frames of the northern lunar pole
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stacked video frames of the north eastern part of the moon
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stacked video frames of the south eastern part of the moon
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Dec 31, 2020 16:27:27 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
Ballard wrote:
The other day while taking some shots of the conju... (show quote)
You, sir, are quite good. Even with severe zoom, still enough detail to be usable.
Dec 31, 2020 16:29:24 #
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Dec 31, 2020 18:21:39 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
JRiepe wrote:
Amazing job.
Hi JRiepe
Thanks for checking out the lunar images and for the comment.
Dec 31, 2020 18:22:59 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Ourspolair wrote:
Beautiful results from your process. Kudos. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year.
Hi Ourspolair
Thanks for view the lunar images and for the comment. Happy New Year to you also.
Dec 31, 2020 18:24:45 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
cahale wrote:
You, sir, are quite good. Even with severe zoom, still enough detail to be usable.
Hi cahale
Thanks for viewing the lunar images and for the comment. Stacking the images helps a lot with the clarity to help mitigate atmospheric turnbulence.
Dec 31, 2020 18:26:34 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
UTMike wrote:
Beautiful result! Happy New Year!
Hi UTMike
Thanks for viewing the lunar images and for the comment. Happy New Year to you also.
Dec 31, 2020 18:27:33 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Longshadow wrote:
Hi Longshadown
Thanks for viewing the lunar photos and for the Thumbs up.
Jan 1, 2021 05:45:18 #
Jan 1, 2021 08:53:58 #
This is what big guns and excellent processing skills can achieve. Nice image Ballard.
Jan 1, 2021 09:47:43 #
Jan 1, 2021 09:50:34 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
Well done.I wonder if Galileo got that much detail with his telescope?
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