We had a beautiful night here last evening and I was able to have some fun with my new Barlow lens on the telescope. It gave me twice the magnification and some really nice resolution. It will be fun to try it on some other celestial targets! The above images feature a few different post-processing techniques in Photoshop to give them a slightly different look. The third one is just cropped so it shows a much tighter view.
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Nearly Full Moon
November 18, 2013
Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount
Nikon D3100 Camera - ISO 800
Barlow 2x lens
100 sub frames at 1/800"/frame
Image Stacking in Registax 6
Final image tweeking in Photoshop
When I look at the beauty of this picture and think about the details of the moon...it assures me that God knows what he is doing. Beautiful!
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