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28-OCT-2004 Steve Sprengel

Eek No Lips + 1

Lincoln, Nebraska

There were only clouds for the Oct 27 Lunar Eclipse, so here's the moon the next day...
I couldn't waste all my research and preparation and not have something to show for it.

This is a stack of 56 images shot with a 300mm lens and 2x teleconverter for an effective focal length of 600mm.
It's not nearly as sharp as using a telescope, but stacking helps reduce the noise so sharpening can be applied.

ImagesPlus was used to crop the images to something reasonable.
Registax was used to align and stack the images, and perform a first pass of sharpening.
The local contrast was enhanced using Paintshop Pro's Clarify.

56 was the number of exposures I could get in continuous mode in 2 minutes, minus a few that had clouds.
Going longer than 2 or maybe 3 minutes, introduces too much field-rotation, because as the moon arcs across the sky,
the features in the first frame and last frame aren't lined up, anymore.

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel ,Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR
1/400s f/8.0 at 300.0mm iso800, 2X Kenko teleconverter, full exif

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