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Directed sunshine vs. diffuse earthshine light battle, Guillermo Gonzalez
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Directed sunshine vs. diffuse earthshine light battle

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It's funny because photographers usually dont like directed light so much, overall harsh light on modelling, and look for softer diffuse light.... but our beloved satellite is much better modelled with directed light than with the diffuse earthshine!!!

Joking aside, I was finishing an astronight around 5:00 am and I saw the Moon riding up... and I said why not giving a chance for an earthsine, i took those captures included as versions (with the ASI 1600 at very low gain to maximize dynamic range, and direct capture, no movie, ranging from 0,007 s and doubling up exposure on each new capture) and then I merged everything with Photomatix HDR software, then I move in to Pixinsight to extract stars (with starnet process) from the overexposed images and then combine the extracted stars with the HDR version and voila! a nice floating moon in the Space. I could even plate solve the image!!

So although I went to bed quite later than expected, it was worth while because I am very happy with the result.

Hoping you all are safe and sound, CS Guillermo

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