Moon last night (May 26)

There was a lot of moisture in the air which caused a bit of haziness, but I was anxious to try out my 7D with my new replacement tripod (the previous one cracked at one of the leg hinges).

The lens used was my Canon 400/5.6 along with both of my tele-extenders (1.4X and 2.0X) to give a FL of 1120 mm at f/16. Shutter speed was 1/80 second and ISO was 100. I used the best seven images out of about fifty total to create a median stack in Photoshop. I also created an edge mask to add a bit of sharpening to the terrain features.

The second image is a 100% crop from the image.

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Very nice image, Bill!

Just right on the sharpening IMHO.

Don

I think the sharpening is fine for the full image, but posting at 100% shows a fair amount of artifacts that I'm not a fan of.

Beautiful! Congrats! I want to get a shot like that one. Oh well. Dreams for me.

DonR wrote in post #10257850
Very nice image, Bill!

Just right on the sharpening IMHO.

Don

Thanks for the generous comment, Don. After I saved the image and it was too late to undo things, I recognized that I went too far in sharpening.

astrostu wrote in post #10258640
I think the sharpening is fine for the full image, but posting at 100% shows a fair amount of artifacts that I'm not a fan of.

I fully agree. I had a reasonable amount of sharpening applied, but made the mistake of going back and increasing the sharpening "just a little bit more" -- a little bit too much. It would be OK for printing, but for web use, the "crunchy" artifacts around the sharpened edges are much too evident.

SuzyView wrote in post #10258659
Beautiful! Congrats! I want to get a shot like that one. Oh well. Dreams for me.

Thanks for the compliment, Suzie. It is not all that difficult to do. Luck and dark skies help. I just take it one mistake at a time.