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Old 6th of September 2006 (Wed)   #1
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Default 5000mm (yes five THOUSAND) f/20 MOON picture
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This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.

Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight.

I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.

Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.

Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function.
original thread here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16822681

btw, this is not my pic, I was just impressed by it.
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wow that is nuts... although i do wonder if he went a bit nuts with the saturation.
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The colours are unnatural but nevertheless WOW! A very impressive image.
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The colours are unnatural but nevertheless WOW! A very impressive image.
Excellent detail. Really impressive.
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Well, WOW!
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There's water on the moon ...

Very detail.
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It's the sea of tranquility!

Very well done image.
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WOW!!
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The colours are unnatural...
You've seen the moon up close?

Awesome picture. Are you sure the original photographer wasn't on the space shuttle?
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Really impressive work. The saturation is high, but i like the way it gives emphasizes the details in the surface that would usually be flat and monotone. Astrophotography is the one type of photography that almost always looks better with high saturation, in my opinion.
Id love to see the 40MP image printed out on some 48" wide paper! Again, great job
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wow, so much detail.
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I like it a lot, Fantastic,

There is a contest here...shouldn't you consider entering this moon PIC?

Great step by step sequence info...

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That is "stupifyin" it is so well done. By far the best moon photo I have ever seen!
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Very well done. Focus is spot on in the whole image. He muse have been taking the photos quick because not of the stars in the background are even slightly blurred. Good on him, whoever he/she is.
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So... is the moon gray or does it have colouring??

Great pic, thanks for sharing!
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