Moon 20061001 Deconvolved

Plato

This is probably my favorite Moon photo. I gave it a little attention and applied an adaptive Richardson-Lucy Deconvolution (RLD) using ImagesPlus. The RLD is amazing in what it can bring out in the way of real detail. Hey, if it is good enough for the Hubble Space Telescope images why not us too! In this version, there are strong hints of at least one craterlet in Plato. Go ahead, view the very largest size and explore the detail. I am very happy with this one given that it is a single image of the moon - no mosaics, no stacking. There is a lot of detail even away from the terminator and Lunar limbs. Watching the deconvolution iterate was interesting. Crater rims sharpened up and tiny new ones emerged (all verified against other imagery).

Taken 20061001 with a TEC140 (1920mm fl f/14 with a Televue 2X Powermate) and the Canon 5D (1/20 sec @ ISO100).

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srednierm/Marty says:

Another Amazing picture!
This one is so good, I put it on my PDA as wallpaper.

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Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

sietsedvrs says:

This is just great !! I will never ever take a moon shot again.
This is so good that I think I delete mine.
You could pick the spot where Armstrong has landed and show me his footsteps.

Just send me one with Neil's footprints will you !
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

esther** says:

Wonderful.... great details!!!!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

markkilner says:

Wow ... magnificent! Have you tried getting any shots of Saturn with the TEC 140 yet? If you can get that amount of detail and colour fidelity on the Moon (with one shot, no less), I'd love to see what you'd make of the ringed planet.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

johnpiercy says:

incredible detail ,, thanks for sharing
very well done ,,,
JP
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Padrone says:

Most amazing moon shot I have ever seen!

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Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Yoghi&Bubu says:

most amazing than the other!
really incredible!

a fave!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

pingnews.com says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Space for All, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Jamesyugi says:

did u take that?
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

edhiker says:

Great shot - good seeing
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Thomas Shahan says:

Excellent color, I always end up converting mine to grayscale due to noise.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Ramsay says:

Must have missed this one! Its a beauty, well done.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Naked_Eyes says:

Wow, I am totally amazed by the detail in this picture. I think you might have your own rocket and took this picture while in orbit around the moon.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

A. Saleh says:

nice shot

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

A. Saleh says:

perfect shot

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

dadecasa says:

wow this is amazing, very cool shot.. I'd love to take some pictures like this butmy longest lens is a 135mm (on afull frame body).. surely not enough!
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Albireo Flanker says:

Great photo. Thanks for sharing. Would like to learn how to deconvolve my moon photos...
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

JMZawodny says:

@Alberio Flanker: I took the liberty of testing an adaptive Richardson-Lucy deconvolution on a full resolution version of the first Moon photo in your photoset. It is a good photo, BTW, a little pink but good. The deconvolution made it even better. I used ImagesPlus with a 10 iteration 3x3 Gaussian PSF. Using a 5x5 seemed a little too harsh. Anyway, I use ImagesPlus for deconvolution. There is also at least one PhotoShop plugin that does this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I do not know of any free software to do this (yet).
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

s.amir_hashemi1 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called IRAN_Persia, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Lynn Morag says:

Stunning!

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Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Stormin-24 says:

Excellent shot...
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Patrick Hoff says:

Looks a lot like mine. I'm really proud of my pic and so should you be :-)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

doobrady says:

I took a shot of the moon this evening with my 500mm lens. I was really happy with it until I looked around at what other people have done. This is just stunning!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

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