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ssracer
14th of February 2009 (Sat), 17:32
Decided to try this when our weather finally broke at the end of January. Managed to get to the full moon with only a couple of misses before we went back to constant cloud cover.

My first time trying something like this. I never paid much attention to how much the moon rotates in the sky as it goes through the phases until I had to rotate ever picture to line up with the full moon...lol

All shots were taken hand held using an XS with a Canon 55-250mm IS at at 250mm. All shot in manual and I think they were all f/11. Shutter speeds of course varied for each. Sharpening, contrast, desaturation and brightness adjustments all done on the RAW files in DPP then converted to JPEG and combined using Gimp.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3511/3279140551_79962f1a18_b.jpg

The full size is on my flickr.

Hope you like it! :D

Celestron
14th of February 2009 (Sat), 19:46
Very cool Sean ! Nice editing also !

ssracer
14th of February 2009 (Sat), 20:46
Thanks!

rebecca12
14th of February 2009 (Sat), 20:50
Nice to see such lovely work with what some would call humble equipment.

ssracer
14th of February 2009 (Sat), 20:51
Next time I get a lot of clear weather I'll have to retry this with the telescope :D

Lyshk0
16th of February 2009 (Mon), 17:47
nice progression! i like the presentation of this as a series.