[az-astroimaging] Re: The Moon Imaged in Narrow Band
- From: Tim Jones <timj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-astroimaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:51:48 -0700
15 year old Tim takes over conversation -
Dude! that’s the most incredible shot of the Moon that I have ever seen.
Totally gnarly!
In a more mature tone -
Fantastic shot, Albert!
Tim
On Nov 7, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Albert Barr <ajbarr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I was reading in the PixInsight Forum about a very interesting technique to
> image the moon with narrow band filters because it’s virtually impossible to
> do with LRGB filters. Way too much signal.
>
> The guy who was writing this also used an FSQ 106 and I was really impressed
> with what he did. Last night was a full moon so I did 40, .06 second subs
> each of OIII and SII on the moon and calibrated everything with flats, darks
> and biases.
>
> Then I took the data into PixInsight, used deconvolution and drizzle and when
> I was done with the mono files I used Pixel Math to create an RGB file
> similar to a bi color using OIII for an artificial green. I then pulled out
> the luminance and spent a lot of time trying to get as much detail as
> possible. I put the processed luminance data back and created a new LRGB.
>
> I was really trying to push the detail so it may be a bit much for some of
> you but I really am amazed that I could actually get a decent color image of
> the moon using narrow band filters. Looks better on a computer than a phone :)
>
> Albert
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/49526053@N04/15115166073/in/photostream/lightbox/
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