3rd Moon from Mars

nice
is it just me of does it seem like the moon is stretched?

siddr20 wrote in post #7478742
nice
is it just me of does it seem like the moon is stretched?

There's no cropping/stretching. It wasn't a full moon and a part of the moon's dark side isn't in the photo, so I guess we'll call it an optical illusion.

It does look a bit stretched, but it's probably an optical illusion. Sometimes, if the field isn't flat, it can cause this type of stretching I believe (I'm new to astro imaging, so I'm probably wrong anyways).

I like the colours, how did you get them? I've seen only a few shots like yours with these types of colours, most have been similar to my recent shot from last night.

Dave

dpastern wrote in post #7478854
I like the colours, how did you get them? I've seen only a few shots like yours with these types of colours, most have been similar to my recent shot from last night.

Dave

Thanks Dave. I took the original raw to photoshop, adjusted a bit of contrast, cloned the base layer, bumped up the base layer's saturation to 95, changed the new layer's blending to luminosity, found it to be a tad washed out still, so cloned the saturated layer and set blending to multiply. Finally I adjusted the non-saturated layer's (the top layer) opacity and fill down a bit till I was happy with the colors and brightness.

There's no set way to do it, so experiment and adjust it till it looks good to you.

Lovely saturated moon.