Moon – mineral colors – August 15, 2021

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.

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.

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Session details

Telescope	Skywatcher Evostar 90/900
Effective focal length	900 mm
Camera	Canon EOS M100
Mount	Skywatcher EQ2
Date of capture	3 October 2020
Frames used	1 of 1
Calibration frames	–
Sensitivity	ISO 800
Capture setup	Camera intern
Capture data from	Moon – first telescope photo – October 3, 2020
Processing date	15 August 2021
Software stack	Affinity Photo
Location	Koblenz
Focal ratio	f/10,0
Image scale	0,85 ″/px
Field of view	85,0 × 56,7 ′