The Phases of the Moon

JimFox

JimFox

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This is a project I have been working on for months now, it involved staying up or getting up at all odd hours of the night to attempt to capture the moon each night. I then processed one from each phase (a couple of phases got missed due to clouds), and then stacked and aligned in Photoshop. The smaller phases of the moon wouldn't align in Photoshop so I had to manually rotate and align them. All of the photos were taken handheld with the Nikon D850 and Tamron 150-600mm. Most of the exposures were at ISO 400, 1/1600th of a sec shutter speed and f6.3 or f8.

I have been working on the processing end of this for the last week, lot's of hours trying to get this to look right. And I know it's not perfect, but I think I have it good enough for a first try at something like this.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis

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Jim,

Sorry for the delayed response to this. Wow, this is truly fun to watch. I think there is some real magic going on in the way you have composited this video together, and I do not doubt it was a lot of work. I think all that effort put into post processing paid off on this (we will get you over to the 'dark' side of astro post processing eventually :) ) - but seriously good work on this one!

ML
 
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