The Moon as an astrophoto object
Astrophoto Moon in Mineral Colors 08-21.
The Moon, another astrophoto of the Moon after doing some telescope, guiding or whatever test. This time it was not the Moon photo itself which i was interested in. This time I wanted to test the post processing to get and demonstrate the beautiful mineral colors.
Beside that, the Moon is always worth to take some photos. Here the high resolution Astrophoto on my Flickr account:
The Moon in mineral colors
This time, the astrophoto is a single exposure. The photo, as it comes out of the camera, was not my primary goal. Furthermore i wanted to show the Moon in mineral colors as I saw them a few times in several Facebook astro-photo groups.
The work to get the mineral colors out of the single exposure photo is more or less limited to edit the color saturation of the photo. I realized this in the software Affinity Photo.
Technical overview of Astrophoto Moon in Mineral Colors 08-21
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
| Focal Length | 600mm |
| Aperture ratio | 7.5 |
| Erecting Lense | – |
| Filter | – |
| Mount | Skywatcher HEQ-5 |
| Goto-Control | EKOS |
| Mount Control | INDI |
| Camera | CANON EOS M100(a) |
| Method | focal projection |
| Camera angle | 0° |
| Camera Control | EKOS, INDI, Gphoto2 |
| Post Processing Date | 14.05.2021 |
| Image Editing | Affinity Photo |
| Capture Place | Koblenz, Germany |
