Daylight Moon
Mar 11, 2021 16:25:19 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
The first shot below was taken on 2/21/2021 at ~4:00PM in the afternoon. This shot was taken with a 500mm lens with a 2X teleconverter to give a 1000mm focal length with a circular polarizer to darken the sky. The image was shot as a 4K video and the individual video frames where stacked to reduce atmospheric turbulence. To stack the frames the .mov video was converter to a .ser file with the program PIPP (Planetary Imaging Preprocessor). The stacking was then done with Autostakkert and final sharpening was done with Registax6). (Note: These programs are all Freeware). The final image was cropped and converted to a Jpeg with PictureWindow.
The second image is a closeup of the crater Copernicus (Also visible in the first image) and taken on June 28, 2020 at night. The second image was made in a similar manner as the first but using a telescope with barlow lens to get an 8000mm focal length. All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.
The second image is a closeup of the crater Copernicus (Also visible in the first image) and taken on June 28, 2020 at night. The second image was made in a similar manner as the first but using a telescope with barlow lens to get an 8000mm focal length. All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.
Mar 11, 2021 16:28:58 #
Mar 11, 2021 16:30:52 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
UTMike wrote:
Excellent result!
Hi UTMike
Thanks for checking out the lunar images and the comment.
Mar 11, 2021 16:31:07 #
Mar 11, 2021 16:59:21 #
Mar 11, 2021 17:02:20 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Zooman 1 wrote:
Great new looks at an old subject. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Zooman
Thanks for viewing the lunar shots and for the comment.
Mar 11, 2021 17:03:34 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
quixdraw wrote:
Impressive results! Kudos!
Hi quixdraw
Thanks for checking out the Lunar shots and for the comment.
Mar 11, 2021 17:30:19 #
Both excellent captures and rendering. Thanks for sharing. How many images did you stack in the first one?
Mar 11, 2021 17:35:39 #
Mar 11, 2021 17:42:33 #
Ballard wrote:
The first shot below was taken on 2/21/2021 at ~4:... (show quote)
Spectacular lunar shots
Call NASA 
Mar 11, 2021 19:52:10 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Ourspolair wrote:
Both excellent captures and rendering. Thanks for sharing. How many images did you stack in the first one?
Hi Ourspolair
Thanks for checking out the images and for the comment.
The first image was a stack of around 900 frames (50% of the best frames from of 1 minute video at 30 frames/sec).
Mar 11, 2021 19:53:07 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
sakitson wrote:
Fantastic! Thanks for the run through the process and gear.
Hi sakitson
Thanks for viewing the lunar images and for comment.
Mar 11, 2021 19:58:28 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
joecichjr wrote:
Spectacular lunar shots Call NASA
Call NASA Hi joecichjr. Thanks for viewing the lunar shots, the thumbs up and the comment.
I think my best lunar shot is still the composite image of a first quarter moon using 4 sets of stacked images that can be viewed at:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-680013-1.html
Mar 11, 2021 19:59:44 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
joecichjr wrote:
Spectacular lunar shots Call NASA
Call NASA Hi joecichjr. Thanks for viewing the lunar shots, the thumbs up and the comment.
I think my best lunar shot is still the composite image of a first quarter moon using 4 sets of stacked images that can be viewed at:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-680013-1.html
Mar 12, 2021 05:48:39 #
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