Looking good Dave!
It's indeed a kind of specialized way on how to approach it.
And I don't know if I mentioned this already: with capturing the moon with a mineral moon processing in mind, it's best to be a bit on the lower side in the histogram than normal. For this one you were on Mean 57, so with a next try you could go for example to Mean 50 or maybe lower. This way you have some more headroom in processing because the color saturation is a kind of stretching.
Menno
Mineral Moon - attempt 2
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Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
Thanks Menno. I will try with a lower histogram next month (moon is very low for me now).
Dave
Dave
Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
"...Microsoft Image Composite Editor stitching results in the greenish images..."
When I saw this I did a double-take. Then raised an eyebrow. I've been using ICE all the was back when it was supported by Microsoft. I never noticed the green tint. And it's not subtle.
I used this stock photo to test. I created two mosaic panels and then merged them. The left image is the mosaic stitch by ICE while the right is the original.
The result was a blue/red suppressed image. It's most notable on the left cheekbone of the woman on the left.
I stumbled on some image size oddities in ICE, too. I need to look closer at my process on the split image here and dig into the other oddities. If I find something meaningful, I'll post on Cloudy Nights.
Thanks for making me aware of ICE's bug.
Joe
When I saw this I did a double-take. Then raised an eyebrow. I've been using ICE all the was back when it was supported by Microsoft. I never noticed the green tint. And it's not subtle.
I used this stock photo to test. I created two mosaic panels and then merged them. The left image is the mosaic stitch by ICE while the right is the original.
The result was a blue/red suppressed image. It's most notable on the left cheekbone of the woman on the left.
I stumbled on some image size oddities in ICE, too. I need to look closer at my process on the split image here and dig into the other oddities. If I find something meaningful, I'll post on Cloudy Nights.
Thanks for making me aware of ICE's bug.
Joe
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Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
Joe
Thanks for the info. The image you posted demonstrates that not all is well in the application. The info I posted came from forum user @Menno55.
This was my first attempt at colour imaging of the moon - all previous work has been with mono lunar mosaics.
If you do find out more can you leave a link here to your Cloudy Nights post.
Thanks.
Dave
Thanks for the info. The image you posted demonstrates that not all is well in the application. The info I posted came from forum user @Menno55.
This was my first attempt at colour imaging of the moon - all previous work has been with mono lunar mosaics.
If you do find out more can you leave a link here to your Cloudy Nights post.
Thanks.
Dave
Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
I have revisited this.
The left hand image is the one from post #9 and #10 above. The right hand image was re-processed as follows:
Dave
The left hand image is the one from post #9 and #10 above. The right hand image was re-processed as follows:
- Stack best 10% of 825 in Autostakkert!3
- Stitch 2 panels with Microsoft Image Composite Editor
- Deconvolution, St Dev=2.0 & Iterations=20
- Range Selection to create mask
- Apply inverted mask
- Curves to brighten, 2 applications
- Apply Local Histogram Equalisation
- Curves to increase saturation, 4 applications
- SCNR to remove green caste
Dave
Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
Wow, Dave, what a difference!
Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
Those PI tools working really well! A cleaner and better coloured image
Tim
Tim
Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
Thanks for the comments Brian & Tim.
Dave
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Re: Mineral Moon - attempt 2
I use Registax to saturate the colors of the Moon.
Details in the photo.
https://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show= ... 849926.jpg
https://astrofotky.cz/~aquarius
Details in the photo.
https://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show= ... 849926.jpg
https://astrofotky.cz/~aquarius