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True colours of the Pink Supermoon, Kelvin Hennessy

True colours of the Pink Supermoon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
True colours of the Pink Supermoon, Kelvin Hennessy

True colours of the Pink Supermoon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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This is the "Pink Supermoon" of April 27th 2021 as, with enhanced colour and detail.

The description 'pink' does not actually refer to the moon's colour but rather that in the USA the Phlox plant's pink flowers bloom around this time of year.

To create this image I took two sets of videos through my 952mm focal length telescope - one video with a ZWO ASI 1600 monochrome camera with an Infrared pass filter, which provides great detail - the other video with a ZWO ASI 294MC-Pro colour camera. The videos are processed to produce a highly detailed black and white image, and a much less detailed but rich colour image. Combining the two images in Adobe Photoshop using the Luminance replacement technique and increasing the colour saturation gradually over 32 iterations of 5% increase produces this as the final result.

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True colours of the Pink Supermoon, Kelvin Hennessy