From: "Mark Gaffney" <markgaffney@mac.com>
Date: March 10, 2008 10:24:55 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Pink Moon..
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:
Hi Mark;
On 10-Mar-08, at 5:49 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:
What would be causing the pinkish tinge in my "pink moon" shot when
opened in the
"Process Image" window?
Without knowing what settings you used and which version of Astro
IIDC this is (3 or 4?) it's hard to say. For example, cranking
saturation up will cause very subtle shades to be strongly intensified.
The movie it`s taken from has a light blue tinge (taken at 8 am in
the morning). I`ve been complimented on this effect particularly by
female members of the
family! This shot is I think not quite oriented correctly, as I
inverted vertically as well as L-R
for my other scope (a 10 inch reflector) and forgot to change the
vertical inversion back for
my 4 inch refractor when taking it. I`m not yet savvy to lunar
features so can`t really tell!
There was also an unfortunate blemish on the secondary mirror. Why
are my shots with the
10 inch brownish and your`s are blue, Milton?
Umm, I'm not sure what image your talking about of mine that are bluish?
My lunar images generally are more colorful because I use the
saturation control to strongly emphasize the faint color differences.
Does this have to do with time of night or can
it be altered with the "Pick Colour" and "Colour Balance" selections?
I just move the Blue and Red sliders around until you get a
reasonable color balancing. To my eyes, the moon is sort of a neutral
dingy brown when unsaturated.
HTH..
Milton Aupperle
I was talking in particular about a recent shot of "Mare Humboldtianum" 20080222 taken
with a Flea 2 camera and some older ones both called "Luna Enhanced"- 20050216 and
20050419. In the latter 2 the colour ranges from brownish at the top to light blue in the
middle and bottom of the image. My pictures are version 3 ones which I`ve posted in the
"Photos" section of the group site in a folder called "Finally the Moon".Mark Gaffney.