The Moon (Awni Hafedh)

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The Moon

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The Moon

Link: https://www.facebook.com/awni.hafedh/posts/10157007737115888

Dec 11th, 2019 - After almost two weeks of clouds we had a break this night with a beautifully clear night, the Moon was full but that didn't stop me from doing astrophotography, I was inspired with my friend (Jason Guenzel) and his color version of the moon, so I used the ZWO ASI1600MC with the Skywatcher 127Mak and it was collimated with the Tri-Bahtinov mask which made a huge difference with the image quality.

The SW 127Mak could not fit the whole moon in the FoV so I had to capture the moon in two panel mosaic, each panel is a SER video of 1500 frames and stacked 25% in AutoStakkert3 and the final image was merged in Photoshop.

Now the stacked-merged image is not even close of being a color image, it is more like a gray image with bluish highlight, the trick of getting the final image is the following:

1) You will need to match the Red, Green and Blue histogram together which is an easy task in curves by selecting each color and play with the curves till the histogram graph is aligned.

2) Star by increasing the Saturation 10% every time, you might need to repeat this process between 10~20 times until you star to see some colors.

3) At this point you can enhance the sharpening, contrast, brightness, color separation ... etc until you reach the point of your personal satisfaction.

I hope this is helpful and you like my final image, I've learned that the different color is due to different materials like Iron, Titanium, Silicon, Magnesium and of course lots of impact craters.

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
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