Thanks everyone for the comments about this tutorial. I have more tutorials on my channel and I'm planning many more that involve deep sky astrophotography if that is of interest to you!
Thanks for this. I have a question. In PIPP all of my LRGB images including space itself are turned Purple. I'm using an unmodified Canon EOS5D MKIV. I can't remove this cast. Any ideas please?
Heads up if you haven't found out already with the saturation. You only need one, ramp it up to 100 then goto the fill percentage and change it down to 13 same results. 🤗
@@Mudly71 yeah these days that's certainly something I'd do instead. I didn't really know what fill did back then 😁 good tip for sure for everyone else, thanks Graham!
I watched this video a few months ago thinking I might give it a shot. I couldn't remember how many pic you shot/used so I just kept the intervalometer on.... oooooooohhh boy.... I just realised I took about 4500 photos of the supermoon last night. Watch my computer burn! HAHA!
I have just started astronomy and attempting astrophotography, using the UA-cam university (lol) during lockdown and whilst there are many good tutorials I have to say you have explained the steps of stacking with the most clarity so far to many of the tutorials assume the listener has some expertise . Thank you you have given me the steps to go and retry. So far when stacking i have only had a result of one picture being stacked.
Hey Malcolm welcome to the hobby. Enjoy your time here and enjoy the technical challenge and enjoy your self. Thanks so much for the kind comment. I'm really glad it was clear and concise for you at the beginning of your journey. When you get some pictures please do share them with me!
Really cool edit. You mention "true color image" of the Moon. In wanting to learn more for myself, how do we know the colors are true and that's how the Moon really looks?
Great Tutorial, I learn't the trick with Registax, reduce CPU down to 1, was alway crashing on the stacking stage. I don't use Lightroom so will try to duplicate your process in Affinity. Thanks
What would be the difference if you just use Photoshop to do the stacking and aligning? I download PIPP and am having problems with the colors there and was wondering if I can just do everything in Photoshop. Thanks.
I can't see why Photoshop couldn't stack pictures of the Moon. Just when I made this tutorial Photoshop didn't have the function, or I didn't know about it :)
@@AstroFarsography thank you so much! I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to fix the coloring in PIPP and it doesn’t work. Thank you also for a great tutorial by the way!
Thanks so much, an excellent tutorial. Have you ever tried to capture the ISS, thats a challenging one that I would love to see a tutorial from you on.
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?
Thanks Bill, hope you enjoy your new hobby. The image must be colour, that's all really. Fits and RAW are just file types to contain that data, one being from dedicated cameras and the other being DSLRs basically. But as long as you end up with a colour photo you can do this editing. So even mono dedicated cameras can create these images, or one shot colour dedicated cameras, or the humble DSLR
I'm using a Seestar S50. which I am told by ZWO only take RAW video................do you know if I stack the video frames using ASIStudio or AutoStakertt can i get the same reaults, or will PIPP and RegiStax work with video files?
Thanks................got things working and made my first Mineral Moon yesterday.........Seestar does record in color, and can stack the video then save as .tiff for editing. Really appreciate your video!
@@AstroFarsography I have watched this video also. There is a different algorithm and, from my point of view, a different result. I meant, is it possible to transfer this particular algorithm to GIMP?
Thanks. I find setting auto colour/wb sets a nice grayish tone to the Moon ready for further edits and I always found my colours don't behave nicely if I don't do this step
You can use Ctrl-J to copy a layer or Ctrl-Shift-J to copy selection to a new layer. Also try out Neat Image for noise reduction. Photoshop built-in median is just lame in compare to Neat Image.
I've been using this tutorial for my first couple moon photos. I have an apochromatic telescope, but I keep running into green chromatic aberrations, and they only get amplified during the hue/saturation stage. Any tips with that?
I'm not entirely sure really. This tutorial is quite old now and is due an update. But I would imagine maybe white balance is being changed or its sampling a point and cooling the image down incorrectly. You could see about setting the histogram to display colours and use level sliders to balance the colours yourself
The Gimp guide would be wonderful :) I'm new to astrophotography and graphic tools in general, so it's quite difficult for me to relate Ps functions to Gimp.
@@malgorzatakowalczyk2537 Just like me! I am also a fairly new and young astrophotographer and I don't have my own funds to buy a software like Photoshop. So GIMP is the only way to go for me :)
what about the F stop, and one more question, what was the interval between each shot and the other, cause in such a low shutter, it will be like burst mode, or you waited like for 1 or 2 sec before taking the other shot. Thanks
This was with an F5 Newtonian. As for the interval, there wasn't. I just locked the shutter closed with continuous shutter mode so it just snapped away as fast as it could and as fast as it could write to memory 😊
Thanks man.. that was ace 👍🏻 Great 1st tutorial too.. well explained and you didn’t go at a million miles an hour - good times 👍🏻 I’ve not used PIPP or Registax before.. Can you use the same process to stack and edit the Milky Way? Thanks man, and clear skies ✌🏻
Thank you, glad it was helpful! No I don't believe PIPP or Registax is good for milkyway. For that you'd want something like DeepSkyStacker which is free as well :)
Hi there. Thank you for this detail tutorial. However, when I added the source files in PIPP, it said that the files have corrupt data and couldn't process it. Is there something wrong with my files?
Are you clicking the 'apply to all' button? It's been some time but if I remember correctly Registax will only preview the changes to a small area you select on the image until you tell it to process all of the picture
Hey. I tried it serveral times. But every time I try to stack my moon-images, it results in (medium-heavy) ghosting. Do you have an idea what the reason could be? I tried to do it like in your video....
it's a year down the road and I'm guessing you've already fixed the issue but I highly recommend using a program called autostakkert for moon and planet stacking.
Maybe it was too low, when things are very low they get red because of the iron oxide (i think) in the atmosphere, thats why sunset are red, and thay may be the reason why your moon is too red. Otherwise i don't know, try to remove a bit of the red in levels in photoshop (image>adjustment>levels>red) good luck !
As pretty as this is there is not a chance in hell that that the end result is a "True Colour Moon", the moon does not have this level of colour, if anything this is just the current trend for adding what isn't there. If the moon really had this colour it would be visible through telescopes and on a clear night the naked eye. Great work on colourising an otherwise bland colourless rock.
The nice thing about editing is that it's subjective. This probably is a bit more cooked than I'd do these days, but some people enjoy more muted colours, other more vibrant. How do you enjoy yours? Slightly more muted in colour?
@@AstroFarsography I know, astrophotography is sometimes more of an art than anything else ;) Yeah, I'd keep it a bit more muted. I usually only maximize the vibrance and don't touch the saturation, or only slightly. Increasing the vibrance doesn't clip data and doesn't create a blueish hue around the edges. I also avoid messing with the blacks/levels too much to increase contrast because it also clips the darks, removing data around the terminator.
@@Exalerion indeed, depends what you're after from your images 😁 this probably is due a revisit anyway since I've improved and yeah probably wouldn't mess too much with the white black points either. Too much contrast is worse than not enough I think
@@AstroFarsography Yeah indeed, those are my thoughts as well, keep it a bit more natural. You also don't want too much contrast and blackpoints of zero in deep sky images as that doesn't look natural either.
Thanks everyone for the comments about this tutorial. I have more tutorials on my channel and I'm planning many more that involve deep sky astrophotography if that is of interest to you!
Thanks for this. I have a question. In PIPP all of my LRGB images including space itself are turned Purple. I'm using an unmodified Canon EOS5D MKIV. I can't remove this cast. Any ideas please?
Heads up if you haven't found out already with the saturation. You only need one, ramp it up to 100 then goto the fill percentage and change it down to 13 same results. 🤗
@@Mudly71 yeah these days that's certainly something I'd do instead. I didn't really know what fill did back then 😁 good tip for sure for everyone else, thanks Graham!
This is by far the most clearly explained video of achieving a ''full colour Moon'' I've seen. I learned a lot. Thank you.
Thanks very much! I'm glad you learnt. Eager to see your results :)
What Paul said. I took my first moon pictures a couple of nights and had no idea where to even start. this has helped me so much. thank you
I love this! I hadn't quite figured out PIPP or Registax, and your video gives me some extra options to play with. Thank you so much!
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful for you 😁 love to see what you come up with :)
I watched this video a few months ago thinking I might give it a shot. I couldn't remember how many pic you shot/used so I just kept the intervalometer on.... oooooooohhh boy.... I just realised I took about 4500 photos of the supermoon last night. Watch my computer burn! HAHA!
very, very GOOD tutorial !!!THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! From Russia with LOVE!
I have just started astronomy and attempting astrophotography, using the UA-cam university (lol) during lockdown and whilst there are many good tutorials I have to say you have explained the steps of stacking with the most clarity so far to many of the tutorials assume the listener has some expertise . Thank you you have given me the steps to go and retry. So far when stacking i have only had a result of one picture being stacked.
Hey Malcolm welcome to the hobby. Enjoy your time here and enjoy the technical challenge and enjoy your self.
Thanks so much for the kind comment. I'm really glad it was clear and concise for you at the beginning of your journey. When you get some pictures please do share them with me!
Fantastic tutorial, and lovely to hear an english accent on an astro tutorial for a change ! :)
Thanks for taking the time to show those of us who are still learning.
Awesome tutorial! I took another stab at editing the full moon I'd captured last month and the difference was remarkable.
Really cool edit. You mention "true color image" of the Moon. In wanting to learn more for myself, how do we know the colors are true and that's how the Moon really looks?
Absolutely fabulous tutorial. I completed my very first colour Moon photograph.
Great Tutorial, I learn't the trick with Registax, reduce CPU down to 1, was alway crashing on the stacking stage. I don't use Lightroom so will try to duplicate your process in Affinity. Thanks
very nice... now we know what lunar minerals are where..
Great tutorial! I could even follow along on most things on gimp (although neither the photo nor the final result were that good)
What would be the difference if you just use Photoshop to do the stacking and aligning? I download PIPP and am having problems with the colors there and was wondering if I can just do everything in Photoshop. Thanks.
I can't see why Photoshop couldn't stack pictures of the Moon. Just when I made this tutorial Photoshop didn't have the function, or I didn't know about it :)
@@AstroFarsography thank you so much! I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to fix the coloring in PIPP and it doesn’t work. Thank you also for a great tutorial by the way!
Same purple image, I guess? I have been having issues PIPP-ing my CR3 raw files into TIF. It just churns out purple images all the time.
12:42 is where the editing starts.
Beautiful moon
Very good explanation ❤
When I boosted up the saturation, the mineral colours were really faint. Is it perhaps because I used 400 frames and need more?
Great vid btw
Thanks for posting this tutorial again, a very good one!
Thank you, and you're more than welcome. I'm glad you found it again and it has been useful to you 😁
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! Can't wait to try it out with my captures of the snow moon!
And.. Thankyou! A nice easy tutorial. Well done mate.
HAVE to try this
Thanks for sharing. Very well explained
Thank you for an easy to follow tutorial very good, was able to get my first Moon coloured image great.
Heya. Thanks Ruz. I did mine but with a little tweak. Only free software. I used GIMP instead. I’ll try to share it somehow here. Good day 👍
Thanks so much, an excellent tutorial. Have you ever tried to capture the ISS, thats a challenging one that I would love to see a tutorial from you on.
Love those colours. Not sure if I prefer colour or monochrome so I keep both versions. Good some nice shots with my Tamron 150-600
Thank you
Amazing tips. Thank you. Awesome video, and what results...
Thanks Ruzeen,
I will try to do the same.
Fantastic thankyou, great tutorial
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?
Thanks Bill, hope you enjoy your new hobby. The image must be colour, that's all really. Fits and RAW are just file types to contain that data, one being from dedicated cameras and the other being DSLRs basically. But as long as you end up with a colour photo you can do this editing. So even mono dedicated cameras can create these images, or one shot colour dedicated cameras, or the humble DSLR
I'm using a Seestar S50. which I am told by ZWO only take RAW video................do you know if I stack the video frames using ASIStudio or AutoStakertt can i get the same reaults, or will PIPP and RegiStax work with video files?
Thanks................got things working and made my first Mineral Moon yesterday.........Seestar does record in color, and can stack the video then save as .tiff for editing. Really appreciate your video!
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks AstroFarsography
Thank you for the instruction, really interesting and helpful!
Thank you for this video. This was very helpful.
Wonderful. Could you ever adapt this your Mineral Moon algorithm to use GIMP?
Thanks! I recently actually uploaded editing a mineral moon video using GIMP actually :) ua-cam.com/video/5uww4XyY9s0/v-deo.html
@@AstroFarsography I have watched this video also. There is a different algorithm and, from my point of view, a different result. I meant, is it possible to transfer this particular algorithm to GIMP?
Great Video!
My question : What did you set the white balance for? (Auto WB?)
Thanks. I find setting auto colour/wb sets a nice grayish tone to the Moon ready for further edits and I always found my colours don't behave nicely if I don't do this step
@@AstroFarsography Ok. Thank you so much! 👍
Fantastic tutorial
You can use Ctrl-J to copy a layer or Ctrl-Shift-J to copy selection to a new layer. Also try out Neat Image for noise reduction. Photoshop built-in median is just lame in compare to Neat Image.
Thanks for the pipp. I have always problem with registax cause of moon size in image.
for me the points during limit gets messed up idk whats wrong in registax
can this bedone in affinity photo to
Thanks for all the detailed explanation!
You're welcome! :)
Pipp only works for Windows?? Nothing for Mac?
Fabulous tutorial. I learnt such a lot from it.
I've been using this tutorial for my first couple moon photos. I have an apochromatic telescope, but I keep running into green chromatic aberrations, and they only get amplified during the hue/saturation stage. Any tips with that?
I know its 2 years later but Camera raw filter "optics" tab helps a ton
why is it when I select auto colour my image turns blue?
I'm not entirely sure really. This tutorial is quite old now and is due an update. But I would imagine maybe white balance is being changed or its sampling a point and cooling the image down incorrectly. You could see about setting the histogram to display colours and use level sliders to balance the colours yourself
Great video
sir my processin failed, what to do?
It will depend on what way it failed. There's many steps involved, are you able to narrow it down?
actaull@@AstroFarsography actually, im beginner to this, i follwed each and every step of yours, i have no idea what to do
As not all of us have photoshop, can you make a tutorial of mineral moon in gimp?
Thanks for the suggestion! To be fair I forgot about doing it in GIMP also so thanks for reminding me :)
@@AstroFarsography ohk
The Gimp guide would be wonderful :) I'm new to astrophotography and graphic tools in general, so it's quite difficult for me to relate Ps functions to Gimp.
@@malgorzatakowalczyk2537 Just like me! I am also a fairly new and young astrophotographer and I don't have my own funds to buy a software like Photoshop. So GIMP is the only way to go for me :)
Brilliant, thanks 👍🏻
what about the F stop, and one more question, what was the interval between each shot and the other, cause in such a low shutter, it will be like burst mode, or you waited like for 1 or 2 sec before taking the other shot.
Thanks
This was with an F5 Newtonian. As for the interval, there wasn't. I just locked the shutter closed with continuous shutter mode so it just snapped away as fast as it could and as fast as it could write to memory 😊
My pipp is just crashing after 20 secs of processing. "Error: All frames have been discarded from 0 input frames."
Gran video gracias por subirlo.
Thanks man.. that was ace 👍🏻
Great 1st tutorial too.. well explained and you didn’t go at a million miles an hour - good times 👍🏻
I’ve not used PIPP or Registax before.. Can you use the same process to stack and edit the Milky Way?
Thanks man, and clear skies ✌🏻
Thank you, glad it was helpful!
No I don't believe PIPP or Registax is good for milkyway. For that you'd want something like DeepSkyStacker which is free as well :)
AstroFarsography thank you for your reply - you’re right.. I tried, and failed miserably - DSS next I think 🤔 clear skies 👍🏻✌🏻
Hi there. Thank you for this detail tutorial. However, when I added the source files in PIPP, it said that the files have corrupt data and couldn't process it. Is there something wrong with my files?
Can any one help me out !! When I keep my photos to wavelet process in registax 6 it only processes a few part of moon how to solve it ?
Are you clicking the 'apply to all' button? It's been some time but if I remember correctly Registax will only preview the changes to a small area you select on the image until you tell it to process all of the picture
@@AstroFarsography nope , I don't know which button are you talking about ?
@@AstroFarsography listen it was my default setting that if a start processing in registax it process the whole image But it is now happening with me
Any video using GIMP?
Dude just pirate PS thats what i did.
Thank you for this...
Hey. I tried it serveral times. But every time I try to stack my moon-images, it results in (medium-heavy) ghosting. Do you have an idea what the reason could be? I tried to do it like in your video....
it's a year down the road and I'm guessing you've already fixed the issue but I highly recommend using a program called autostakkert for moon and planet stacking.
I have .CR3 files and PIPP wont take them. Anyway to work around this?
You can try running them through another program like Lightroom and then exporting them as a DNG or a TIFF. PIPP should then accept them
@@AstroFarsography thanks I'll definitely give it a try!
"I wound up with Something Stupid" LOL!
Man I really need a telephoto lens to use my actual camera because phone cameras are terrible.
I got one now.
Question for everyone, when i processed my raw files in PIPP they turned pink ? Does anyone know why ?
i got the same problem
10:32 Crater Tycho.
Mine is all reddish. I don't have the full moon more of a waning gibbous but there is no blue colors at all
Maybe it was too low, when things are very low they get red because of the iron oxide (i think) in the atmosphere, thats why sunset are red, and thay may be the reason why your moon is too red. Otherwise i don't know, try to remove a bit of the red in levels in photoshop (image>adjustment>levels>red) good luck !
Thanks good video! Were you chewing gum?😊
Do you have Persian ancestry?
I do! My father's Iranian. Good spot! What gave it away?
@@AstroFarsography Farso='Farsi'
Somebody please get this guy some water!
As pretty as this is there is not a chance in hell that that the end result is a "True Colour Moon", the moon does not have this level of colour, if anything this is just the current trend for adding what isn't there. If the moon really had this colour it would be visible through telescopes and on a clear night the naked eye. Great work on colourising an otherwise bland colourless rock.
If only you could buy photoshop...
Then pirate it. Im pretty sure i still got the link.
"How to overprocess the Moon..."
The nice thing about editing is that it's subjective. This probably is a bit more cooked than I'd do these days, but some people enjoy more muted colours, other more vibrant. How do you enjoy yours? Slightly more muted in colour?
@@AstroFarsography I know, astrophotography is sometimes more of an art than anything else ;)
Yeah, I'd keep it a bit more muted. I usually only maximize the vibrance and don't touch the saturation, or only slightly. Increasing the vibrance doesn't clip data and doesn't create a blueish hue around the edges. I also avoid messing with the blacks/levels too much to increase contrast because it also clips the darks, removing data around the terminator.
@@Exalerion indeed, depends what you're after from your images 😁 this probably is due a revisit anyway since I've improved and yeah probably wouldn't mess too much with the white black points either. Too much contrast is worse than not enough I think
@@AstroFarsography Yeah indeed, those are my thoughts as well, keep it a bit more natural. You also don't want too much contrast and blackpoints of zero in deep sky images as that doesn't look natural either.
Fantastic tutorial