A cloudy compilation

[Thefatkitty]

Good morning all, it's 1AM for me...

I still have this cold, but after a couple hours sleep I feel somewhat better. Went upstairs to get a drink and of course, look out the back door. Almost full Moon, hazy, and much warmer than last night. That says to me snow is on the way, given the time of year. Great.

Just for something to do and a bit of fresh air, I got my 60mm f/7 and Canon T3. Even though my skies were like this, I wanted to try something:

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I took 5 overexposed pictures of the Moon like above. Then I took 10 at a lower shutter speed, thereby eliminating most of the cloud. Then I took another 5 through our tree, with focus on the branches and again, overexposed.

The first five pictures of the "overexposed Moon" I ran through PIPP at full size, then AS2. This got rid of any dust motes and evened out the haze. The next 10 at the lower shutter speed I did the same thing with; PIPP and AS2. I didn't bother with ImPPG or Registax on that result either. Using PSP 9, I blended the overexposed stack and the Moon stack together. Then I put that over one of the shots I took through the tree branches.

Not anything to be overly thrilled with, but I was just curious as to what I could get out of all this, especially when it came to stacking overexposed shots. Now I know.

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I hope your skies are clearer than mine, and all the best

[Lady Fraktor]

I like the image through the branches
The rain and lightning have stopped here but clouds for the next few days and temperatures in the single digits. :p

[Juno16]

Nice work!

Your image really snaps Mark!

Big time cold front supposed to come through tomorrow. Hope that i can get a view of the transit. We will see.

Thanks,
Jim

[bladekeeper]

Pretty darn cool, Mark!

Been a warm and pleasant sunny day, but the sky is in the process of trashing up. Rain tonight, snow tomorrow and negative (C) temperatures here. Bleh!

[Thefatkitty]

Thanks Gabby, Jim and Bryan; and yeah, it was just more something to do. Seems like you're all getting the same weather tomorrow as me, more or less. I even have tomorrow booked off from work; did that the day I started
Always the astronomer....

Of course, with this coming in...

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So I will spend the day hiding from the snow in the basement where the cat will no doubt join me, and I plan to re-watch seasons 1 & 2 of Letterkenny (I firmly blame Bryan for that, as well as too much work ) as well as season 14 of Supernatural.

I hope you all have better luck for the transit tomorrow!

[Don Quixote]

Hi Mark.
The image through the trees is quite interesting. The moon has a 3D affect in the midst of the branches.
Thank you Mark.