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Survived the full Moon

Clouds do cooperate.

The true moment of the full Moon was at 05:38 my local time (UT+4) so nor 08.09 nor 09.09 images show the fully illuminated disk. 08.09 shows some roughness on the Eastern limb, while 09.09 has some craters in 3D :) on a Western side.

 

Acquisition time:

as indicated, around 21:05-21:15 MSK (UT+4)

Image orientation: as in the sky with possible minor tilts

Equipment: Canon EOS 60D with Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM backed with EF 2x III extender handheld on photo-tripod with ball-head. IS was always on.

Aperture (effective): 63,5 mm

Focal length: 400 mm

Tv 1/250-320 sec

Av f/6,3

ISO 400

Capturing software: N/A

Exposures: ~20 of 100-150 (it depends)

Processing:

1) Contrast curve for Raw images was set to Linear, brightness adjusted to +1-1,3EV, the sharpness and NR set to 0 in Canon DPP;

2) Images were batch pre-cropped to 1500x1500 and exported as TIFFs.

3) Exported images were aligned with StackReg plugin for ImageJ and saved as AVI.

4) AVI was processed in and in AS!2.

3) Deconvolution (Richardson-Lucy algorithm, Cauchy type PSF, 0,9 units, 6 iterations) was done in AstraImage Pro 3;

4) High-pass filtering and collaging was made in Photoshop.

 

Note: 08.09 image is poor due to rather hazy sky.

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Uploaded on September 9, 2014
Taken on September 9, 2014