This morning's moon + RP

[Diane_Miller]

An edit already. After posting the light tones look too flat, so a little more adjustment made.

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I was heading down to the new bird blind at 6 am, hoping for some luck, but didn’t have much. But the moon was high in the sky three days after full which gives nice definition of the craters at the edge. Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crises) stands out strikingly at 4:00. And just for interest I’ve marked the spot where humans first set foot on the moon 55 years ago – at the edge of the Sea of Tranquility.

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All comments welcome! I’ve resisted the temptation to pull out more detail as it appeared this way to my eye.

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I only had the 1.4X on, and just did a quick handheld shot. In LR I brought out a little detail with the Clarity slider and lightened the sky with Curves. Into PS for denoise. Cropped to 14% of the original frame. The air was quite free of turbulence and the craters are very well-defined.

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[Karl_Zuzarte (Karl Zuzarte, MNEC)]

Lovely detail Dianne of moon shot perhaps a day after the Full Moon - especially so with the ultimate focal length you used
I wonder how this would look in Black and white ?
Most fuller moons that I have photographed have that yellow orange glow especially when closer to the horizon

[Diane_Miller]

Thanks, @Karl_Zuzarte – it was 3 days after the full moon and at sunrise the moon was reasonably high – too high for any atmospheric color, and the air was very clear.