Great final image! Good to follow a channel that is not totally DSO obsessed and does justice to the fascinating features found on this amazing object on our cosmic doorstep. Best and most informative solar system channel on the net.
Great video I've managed coloured Moon pictures before but never like this so I will have to give it a try next time, I love the picture of comet Neowise & the Noctilucent clouds on your monitor I remember being out taking pictures of this event with my partner lovely memories.
Defo give it a try! And thanks, NEOWISE was great wasn't it? Hope you have managed to catch Leonard but I imagine this near-constant cloud cover isn't helping!
I've learned so much this past year and enjoy coming back to this video from time to time. Do you adjust your DSLR settings besides manual mode like white balance or noise reduction?
This video is great. I’m going to start doing this. MY question is can’t we use Photoshop for the stacking? I have a MacBook and don’t know what a good stacking software is for the Mac side. I did try using photoshop, but the moon came out more blurry then a single shot. Thought I would ask :).
@@RefreshingViews I appreciate you responding, yes I did use the Auto align. I have done other stacking and Photoshop so I do know how to do it but for some reason with the moon, it just never seems to work right I did read that doing stacking with The Moon is kind of hard because it’s not really a contrasting item within itself or something like that if you know what I mean Is there a reason why you use this other program instead of Photoshop since it has all the features there? Does it have an advantage over Photoshop? I guess the other thing is because I would like to do this coloring with the moon as long as this is an accurate representation of what it really is And from what you were explaining that it is because I always thought wow when did the moon have colors like that.
@@Thomasjcolbert82 the other thing to try is autostakkert. This is what I use for my planetary imaging. It says, however, "AutoStakkert! is Windows only software. However, it does run fine using Wine under both Linux and macOS." Not sure what one does with Wine (at least not this type!) as I use Windows.
@@Thomasjcolbert82 this is photoshop elements - the cheaper version. I got fed up of paying the monthly subscription so have just jumped to Affinity - fantastic product and fraction of the price of Adobe.
New to astrophotography............super video and very helpful............am I correct in assuming that to get images to edit for a "mineral moon" they have to be taken with a standard camera that shoots in RAW, and not a dedicated astro camera that saves the images as .fit files?
Yeah it’s 10 I think stacked together from Canon 77D DSLR. I guess colour data would be in the planetary camera too - assuming it’s a colour camera and you’re not shooting with an IR pass filter.
@@RefreshingViews No i have only Hoya HMC uv(0) filter, but is it possible to replicate the effect of a filter manualy in photoshop or in some other computer program ?
I stack the photos in registax6, 100 or more photos, then I apply exactly what you did in Photoshop elements, but the program is in German, there may be a mistake, I am very glad you took the time for me, thank you very much.
@@halibramfeiz3516 - how strange! The only thing I can think of is that the white balance is not set correctly or the layers are not processing correctly. Hope you can work it out!
Do people like this not get embarrassed at what they post? It’s existed for all of humanity and for billions of years, there’s no way that “the government made it up and wants to hide something”😂. Just hear yourself!!! 😂
Thank you!! The rain actually made it quite calming!
You're welcome 😊 Alas it’s still raining now so I’m not finding it very calming!!
Great final image! Good to follow a channel that is not totally DSO obsessed and does justice to the fascinating features found on this amazing object on our cosmic doorstep. Best and most informative solar system channel on the net.
Thank you your kind words Ken. Really appreciated! Clear skies to you.
Wow, that was awesome, and the colors are beautiful!
Thank you so much!
I followed along with a single image from last October. Wow. Going to have a go at stacking a few and get at it again. Thanks for the great video!
Glad it worked for you Jeff. It's quite amazing pulling out the colour from what appears to be a grey image isn't it? Let us know how you get on.
Great Video. I love the way you explain what you are doing and the reason. Thanks Mark
Cheers Steve. Thank you for your kind words. It's amazing to see the different soils isn't it?
just stacked 5000 frames and it’s absolutely gorgeous. Thank you friend.
Glad it worked!
Very informative thanks! You're getting me interested in having a crack at the moon and planets with all these wonderful videos!
Thank you and yes, please do go for those solar system objects.
Great video I've managed coloured Moon pictures before but never like this so I will have to give it a try next time, I love the picture of comet Neowise & the Noctilucent clouds on your monitor I remember being out taking pictures of this event with my partner lovely memories.
Defo give it a try! And thanks, NEOWISE was great wasn't it? Hope you have managed to catch Leonard but I imagine this near-constant cloud cover isn't helping!
I will definitely try again carefully. Thank you for your help.
Best of luck
Great video and you explained it so well, i will give this a try!
Please do! And let us know how you get on.
great video - many thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
I've learned so much this past year and enjoy coming back to this video from time to time. Do you adjust your DSLR settings besides manual mode like white balance or noise reduction?
Thank you for your kind words, Craig. No, I live the WB on daylight (moon light = sunlight) and normally stack the images for noise reduction.
This video is great. I’m going to start doing this. MY question is can’t we use Photoshop for the stacking? I have a MacBook and don’t know what a good stacking software is for the Mac side. I did try using photoshop, but the moon came out more blurry then a single shot.
Thought I would ask :).
Not sure of Mac stacking software but did you click the auto align tick box in photoshop?
@@RefreshingViews
I appreciate you responding, yes I did use the Auto align. I have done other stacking and Photoshop so I do know how to do it but for some reason with the moon, it just never seems to work right
I did read that doing stacking with The Moon is kind of hard because it’s not really a contrasting item within itself or something like that if you know what I mean
Is there a reason why you use this other program instead of Photoshop since it has all the features there? Does it have an advantage over Photoshop?
I guess the other thing is because I would like to do this coloring with the moon as long as this is an accurate representation of what it really is
And from what you were explaining that it is because I always thought wow when did the moon have colors like that.
@@RefreshingViews
My equipment is a canon, R5 and RF 100-500MM
@@Thomasjcolbert82 the other thing to try is autostakkert. This is what I use for my planetary imaging. It says, however, "AutoStakkert! is Windows only software. However, it does run fine using Wine under both Linux and macOS." Not sure what one does with Wine (at least not this type!) as I use Windows.
@@Thomasjcolbert82 this is photoshop elements - the cheaper version. I got fed up of paying the monthly subscription so have just jumped to Affinity - fantastic product and fraction of the price of Adobe.
New to astrophotography............super video and very helpful............am I correct in assuming that to get images to edit for a "mineral moon" they have to be taken with a standard camera that shoots in RAW, and not a dedicated astro camera that saves the images as .fit files?
You can do it with either type of camera, Bill, it just has to be colour.
Got it, thanks..............appreciate the video!
Which software did you use?
I think that’s photoshop elements from memory - the same process works on gimp, photoshop , affinity so use what you have.
Could Autostakkert stack 800 images of galaxy with star field? Basically, could it substitute Pixinsight?
Not sure, Ana. Check out Deep Sky Stacker which is freeware for deep sky objects.
Excellent video. What camera did you use? DSLR? Would a planetary camera file contain the color data too?
Yeah it’s 10 I think stacked together from Canon 77D DSLR. I guess colour data would be in the planetary camera too - assuming it’s a colour camera and you’re not shooting with an IR pass filter.
for some reason when i trun up the saturation and duplicate that layer then my whole moon picture becomes red
Are you using an IR/red filter? It should be various shades of white with delicate colours slowly appearing!!
@@RefreshingViews No i have only Hoya HMC uv(0) filter, but is it possible to replicate the effect of a filter manualy in photoshop or in some other computer program ?
I use the same program, but the result is completely one color. I watched your video and applied it exactly, and the result is still negative.
That's strange. Have you tried stacking a few pictures together to boost the signal-noise ratio? And are you sure you are capturing in colour?
I stack the photos in registax6, 100 or more photos, then I apply exactly what you did in Photoshop elements, but the program is in German, there may be a mistake, I am very glad you took the time for me, thank you very much.
@@halibramfeiz3516 - how strange! The only thing I can think of is that the white balance is not set correctly or the layers are not processing correctly. Hope you can work it out!
I will definitely try again carefully. Thank you for your help.
As you said, I was getting negative results due to white balance. Thank you again for your help.
Aha.
Did it work, Graeme? Let us know how you got on.
Lol 'Mineral' moon? These moonlanders just can't let it go.
Give it up guys... Not a solid object, just let it go.
Sounds like you’ve let go of reality mate 🤣🤣🤣 keep taking the pills bro
It has to be real as that is where the Clangers live.
Do people like this not get embarrassed at what they post? It’s existed for all of humanity and for billions of years, there’s no way that “the government made it up and wants to hide something”😂. Just hear yourself!!! 😂