Full Moon with Solar Continuum filter... again

[Thefatkitty]

Hey all, hope life is treating you well

Back on Nov 8th of last year, I tried something that @Lady Fraktor had told me about. Trying my Baader Solar Continuum on the full Moon. I gave it a shot, and realised that my exposure settings needed to be shorter.

The post is here.

Four months later. It seems like a blur, though my hair is longer...

Actually, a bit off topic here, but the last time I had a haircut was October 2019. It was above my ears my whole life, then the pandemic hit.
My daughter Sarah told me "you know Dad, long hair suits your chill personality" after it was growing for a year. She's kept the front trimmed and taught me how to tie it up.
So now I have a brown/blond/grey ponytail that's almost halfway down my back. I remember being called "sir" when I'd hold the door open for people and the like; as in thank you Sir...
Now I'm an old hippie; I get "thanks bro/brother/dude/man"

OK, back to our regular scheduled programming.... Since it was clear last night and a full Moon, I decided to try all this again. At -20C (-4F) it was a bit nippy out when the Moon rose high enough to clear my roof at a bit after 9PM.

I set up my C80-HD on it's CG4. I used my Canon EOS 550D with a Baader Solar Continuum filter screwed into a Baader UV/IR Cut CMOS filter on the camera's Vixen T-Ring. My mount is not motorized; I set it up so the camera is tilted to the angle the Moon follows through the alt-az movement. From left to right I can get 120 shots easily.

The clouds were coming up, so I tried 1/160th exposure at ISO 800; somewhat higher exposure times from my last attempt. 100 shots of that and wanted to try 125th and 100th sec exp as well, but the weather wasn't going to cut me a break.

I unloaded the pics off the camera this AM, and processed them tonight. I ran the images through PIPP for alignment in both colour and mono, then stacked those respectively in AS3.

This is what looking through the Moon with a SC filter looks like. Obviously the stack of this won't do me beans, but just so you know what it looks like.
BTW, the Sun also has the same hue when viewed through this.

Full size image here



And in mono. Much better stack for sure

Full size image here



Both images are as is after the AS3 processing; no post whatever, just scaled with GIMP.

I'll have to try this again... I can see this taking the next while for sure!

Thanks for looking. Have a good night and clear skies

All the best,

[messier 111]

I like your Martian moon, it gives another perspective. thx.

[Juno16]

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the nice write and gorgeous lunar image(es).
Cool stuff!
Good for you for having a long ponytail! My gene pool shut my hair down many, many years ago. Sure is easy, but I really have to keep it covered from sol!
Thanks for the clear skies wish as I need some. Been out for 3 hours this year so far. Oh well, it will get better.
Take care buddy!

[Lady Fraktor]

Good looking images you hippy
It is quite amazing on how well the SC filter can make the details on the lunar surface really pop.

Sometimes I will just set the filter on the eyepiece eyecup, look, take it off, look, there are times you can easier spot subtle details with the SC.

[Makuser]

Hi Mark. A nice pair of full moon versions. The first one suggests that the Moon really is made out of green cheese. And the second one has nice contrast and very good surface details, which is hard to get with a full moon because you can get "blooming" due to the brightness. Thanks for sharing these with us Mark and I am with Jim on "hair today...gone tomorrow".

[Razz]

Nice images, Mark! As far as hair goes, I haven't had a haircut in over 30 years. I still have a full head of dark brown hair with a small bit of gray but it's never grown past my shoulders. Now my fu manchu mustache is mostly gray and grows like a weed...