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Historic Colorful Moon, James Muehlner

Historic Colorful Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Historic Colorful Moon, James Muehlner

Historic Colorful Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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The moon as it appeared on the launch day of Chang'e 5, the first lunar sample return mission since the soviet missions of the 70s.

I would annotate the landing site, but it's still in shadow, unfortunately.

250 frames stacked up, contrast enhanced and color cranked up to a million to the subtle color variations.

I should add that converting all 1800 Sony raw files to tiffs that Autostakkert can read took several hours, and then actually stacking took nearly another 3 hours. Each image as taken at 1/1000 s exposure time, 2000 ISO.

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Historic Colorful Moon, James Muehlner

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