Bizzare experiments on the Moon

After a brief discussion of a subject of the "colorfull Moon" with Wyld-Katt I decided to try it myself. Definitely it works better with the full Moon, while in this phase the areas along the terminator become strickingly bluish...

 

Aquisition time (start of the session) : 05.09.2014, around 20:00:00 UT+4).

Image orientation: declination is horisontal and right ascension is vertical (in other words - scrambled :)

Equipment:

Canon 60D via Baader Planetarium MPCC Mk III on Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian riding Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro SynScan mount.

Aperture 150 mm

Focal length 750 mm

Tv = 2 ms

Av = f/5

ISO 400

Gain NA

Software: Magic Lantern

Exposures: 53% of 300

Processing: contrast of RAW images was set to "Linear" and +0,5 EV was added in Canon DPP. Images was exported as RGB 8 bpc images, pre-aligned with StackReg plugin for ImageJ and processed in Autostakkert!2. Stacking result was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Gaussian type PSF, size 0,9 units, 5 iterations).

The bizzare experiment was perfomed in Photoshop using Hue/Saturation and Saturation/Vibrance tools.

Done