Capturing a Mineral Moon

[@atlantaastro]

I wanna see the full length video of all the subs put together! I could watch it all night haha great image!

[@the_space_koala]

I can’t blame you - I could watch it for hours as well!

[@maksimyasko2092]

Is it of any useful lurpose to stack that many frames? Would it be noticeably worse if made from, let's say 1.5k frames vs 500 k?

[@the_space_koala]

in general the more the better when you want to bring out the colors. The Moon is of course extremely bright, but think of the difference between the different colors as an extremely faint "object". You would want to photograph for very long. Of course you cannot take long exposures so you need to take a *lot* of them to bring out the true colors rather than chromatic noise

[@Wormhole1207]

That's excellent image Some questions :1. how long was each exposure?? 2. Which software you used to stack moon images?

[@the_space_koala]

Hey thanks! The frames are super short I think like 1msec each. I used AutoStakkert for stacking

[@starhunter_astronomy]

In my opinion, the image of the Moon is greatly overexposed. I recommend avoiding overexposure and keeping an eye on the histogram. Also, when stacking in Autostakkert, I will make two stacks - 100 and 500 frames. From 100 frames I take details, and from 500 - only color. Then I combine them and get a clear but vibrant image.

[@the_space_koala]

hello, thank you for the input! if you check the raw stack it is not overexposed at all - this fake "glow" is added during processing only. clear skies!