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Lunar Earthshine HDR, Brent Newton

Lunar Earthshine HDR

Lunar Earthshine HDR, Brent Newton

Lunar Earthshine HDR

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Description

This is what I believe to be my first successful HDR involving Earthshine - past efforts have usually faced too bright a glow from the Moonlit side overpowering the Earthlit region, which lost a lot of detail. Fortunately this effect is greatly reduced on younger Moons, such as this ~7% Moon

- Exposures were 20 each of 1/3, 1/5, 1/10, and 1/100 seconds

- Stacked in Autostakkert!2 using terrain tracking and the best 50%

- Processing in Photoshop involved significant amounts of masking between the 4 stacked exposures to get the exposure blending just right, followed by many small changes to Levels and Curves using selective masks to clean up (most) lingering uneven steps in brightness.

- Final processing involved sending the HDR image to PixInsight for TGV & MLT Noise Reduction and a pass of Deconvolution on the brighter side

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Lunar Earthshine HDR, Brent Newton

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