Moon composite reworked

"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Forgive the creation of a new thread but this one looks quite
different from the last one and finally represents what I've been
after for quite some time. It might also be useful to someone who is
looking to get the same result.

The solution was to cheat! Basically, the problem getting the
composition of crescent and Earthshine right was to deal with the
terminator properly. This is virtually impossible because the two
images don't actually fit together due to over-exposure. The way
around this is to take an Earthshine image on one night and the
crescent image on the subsequent night. When these images are merged
together (e.g. using Photoshop's lighten layer blend) the overlap
removes the terminator issues resulting in a much more aesthetically
pelasing result. Well I got excited about it anyway ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/2...rthshine3.html
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Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk

Amateur!

(hehe)

Here's how you really cheat this kind of image:
http://faxmentis.org/html/science8.html

ISTR this was a composite of a 7-day-old and a 20-day-old moon.
(No earthshine, y'see)

Taken about 6 years ago.

(...and its not upside down - youse folk are.)

Cheers
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Jeff R.