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... Not sure if it is spelt correctly, but Tem Duan is Thai for Full Moon.

The Moon is apparently at it's closest to the Earth for fifteen years. Anyway, grabbed the picture box and took this when it was almost directly overhead at 11 pm. Full DZ, sharpened, some levels and cropped.

Anyone else got some Moon shots ?



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Nice shot. I wanted to take but it is overcast here in hkg.
Lloydy said:
... Not sure if it is spelt correctly, but Tem Duan is Thai for Full
Moon.

The Moon is apparently at it's closest to the Earth for fifteen
years. Anyway, grabbed the picture box and took this when it was
almost directly overhead at 11 pm. Full DZ, sharpened, some levels
and cropped.

Anyone else got some Moon shots ?



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Post processing (PP) Tips - http://www.pixplanet.biz/Posting-stuff_7.htm
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Lloydy said:
... Not sure if it is spelt correctly, but Tem Duan is Thai for Full
Moon.
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Spelling is "deuan dtem", according to one online translator ...

According to another, the Royal Thai General System spells full moon as "duean tem duang", whose components mean "month", "complete, full" and "orb, spherical object" ...
Lloydy said:
The Moon is apparently at it's closest to the Earth for fifteen
years. Anyway, grabbed the picture box and took this when it was
almost directly overhead at 11 pm. Full DZ, sharpened, some levels
and cropped.

Anyone else got some Moon shots ?
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Shot a few ...

D2Hs -- the night before I traded it for the D300 ...



D300



100% crop of previous image ...



Stack of three, blended for noise removal. That worked well, but atmospheric variances work against you with so few images ...



Two teleconverters stacked, 10 RAW images stacked ... lots of detail, but the feeling of softness is still there. I think I agree with some sites that suggest shooting single images when working with the moon.



Smaller stack of images from the same group I think ... turned out a bit crisper ...



Hand held image with one of Nikon's better kit lenses ... 70-300VR ...



Fuji F11 ...




Lloydy said:
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You can see the importance of taking the shots when the moon is not full. The craters near the terminator line come out great.
 
Dave,

Would you try it when you have a non-full moon? I'd love to see what the s100fs gets when the craters start the show some shadow.
 
Its not just for astronomers... for sure.

ALE is also useful for ordinary static subject shots where single exposures would be too noisy. On the basis of the math, the S/N improved proportional to the SQRT( number of frames stacked ). So you can achieve significant improvement even for "ordinary" shots using continuous shooting to capture a stack of, say, 16 shots.

Also you can use exposure bracketing AND stacking by stacking the coresponding bracket elements and then running through a standard HDR workflow. ALE also has one of the better auto-registration algorithms. It can also be forced to burp out the registration information to use in other applications.

Regrettably ALE's power is not necessarily easily accessible. There are some GUI skins that front end it.

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I've always wondered why the moon looks slightly different when you shoot it on different nights ... well, this shot of the "wobble" makes it obvious that the moon has a different angle to us at different points within its elliptical orbit ...



Credit: António Cidadão

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patchotoole said:
You can see the importance of taking the shots when the moon is not
full. The craters near the terminator line come out great.
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Thanks. I'd like to see a composite of shots taken at different phases to get the craters to stand out everywhere. Of course, as shown in my post regarding the angle of the facing surface, it is not quite so simple as blending. But I'm pretty sure that I've seen a composite like that ...

My favorite image ever remains Michael A. Stecker's moon shot:



His home page:

http://mstecker.com/home1.htm

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Just finished processing two images ... first is a single shot processed my usual way, second is a 6 stack images (the only ones I shot) .... the stack really seems to have pulled out some detail this time ... I think CS4 is better at alignment than CS3. I was also able to leave it in color ... and the stack seems to have accentuated the colors a bit ... all very interesting.





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