I did have another go Nick. I can open in Paint Shop Pro 8 but no histogram and limited functions. :(

I will keep an eye open for your next pic.

Don

Don, Just uploaded an F8 shot which I got from a 9 shot bracket,

Cheers

The purpose of yesterday was to experiment with handheld and was surprisingly easy. I shot this one quite early after one or two others. After a short break I noticed something flying across the moon so grabbed the camera, pointed and hoped, I am kind of pleased with this one.

Camera and lens (200-400 at 400mm) f4, 1/400 ISO 250 Matrix metering -0.7EV RAW

NX converted to B&W cropped then sharpened in PS.

I confess to living near an airport but I do not recall one taking off and if so would have turned out to South so I am not sure where the aeroplane came as the moon was near due East, aeroplane would have to turned to the North the pass the moon. The aeroplane appears to be a boring 737.

Nick,

I have done a little job on your image. Not sure if you or Bish have used curves before so I have attatched a graphic. There is a thread on this in the Digital Darkroom.

The attatched image was done in NX where I also converted to B&W. The snag with the moon in this phase is as you commented the lack of shadow detail. So B&W was used as a way of increasing contrast to try and bring out detail. Now that the moon is starting to wane, over the period 9th to 14th September ( last quarter ) this is the time to catch more detail.

Note to Admin. If this works problem SOLVED :)

Don

Here is something to put our humble efforts into perspective.

Stevie does a bit of star gazing using her birding scope, and so gets a couple of monthly magazines. In the readers gallery of one of her latest is a full page well detailed image of the moon about 1/2 phase.

Quote " The moon is a difficult subject for astronomers because of the low contast among its surface features. This 42-image mosaic captures the full face in great detail. ( 9.25 inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at f10, ToUcam Pro webcam. For each of the 42 images, the imager selected and stacked the best 20-30 frames out of 500. ) "

My reading of this suggests then that the final composite is made up from the best of 21,000 frames. :eek:

Don

Only just seen this thread, very interesting.
Take a look at a shot i took with my D70 using a 80-400 vr Teleplus 2x converter 1/160 @ F/5.6 ISO200 hand held.
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...3/DSC5140c.jpg

Very impressive Mick. Are you sure you need the monopod in your avatar ? :D

There must be something about Nikon and siezed joints.

I have not circumbed yet and have to rely on a heavy tripod. I'll blame my eyes for the rest. :)

Don

Thanks for the info on curves Don, I haven't used them before but followed your advice with this image in Lightroom which has improved it a bit, also converted to B&W, I will try some more shots as the moon wanes.

Regards Bish. :)

Here is a composite from yesterday for those that missed it.

Don

Don,

Thanks for your efforts and advice, its amazing what you can do with a little curve adjustment, I will have another go tonight and if I need to will mess around with curves. I have tried USM which does seem to help bring out the shadow a bit but the downside for me is I get a thin halo round the moon.

Cheers