Eye of the night
by Alexey Kljatov
Title
Eye of the night
Artist
Alexey Kljatov
Medium
Photograph - Astrophoto
Description
This is re-processing of my previous moon photo: brighter, with slightly better resolution and lower noise.
This moon picture was captured with home-made high zooming range setup for my camera, containing two external lenses: Jupiter 21M and Helios 44 (both lens was made in USSR for old film camera Zenit). The moon itself photographed as long serie of 48 identical RAW photos. The only difference between them is small shift of moon in every photo: zoom level was high enough to make moon movement easily noticeable even at short exposures. Long exposures is not applicable at all, because of motion blur.
After capturing moon series, i captured surrounding clouds with much lesser zoom, also as short series. Moon and cloud stacks was aligned and averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio, processed separately, and blended together at final stage. Pseudo-HDR processing was used to boost details of moon surface: craters and ridges. Also, i painted "reflect" at dark side of the moon with brush.
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February 8th, 2016
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