Almost full

The nights of almost full moon are beautiful but pretty bad for deep sky imaging due to the intense light comming from it. Fortunately, the moon itself is a wonderful target.

Although the full moon doesn't reveal a lot of detail on it because of the equally distributed light on all the surface, it still has some magic when looking at it.

Here, 98% full moon at a distance of 399.490,41 km through the ETX-70. These are 15 images at ISO 200 1/125s. Stacked with Registax and post processed with StarTools to enhace the details.

Enjoy!

Waxing moon

This is my first serious attempt on astrophotography and I thought it's worthwhile to share it by creating a blog. I will try to progress into this world as it is becoming one of my passions. 

The picture shows the waxing moon at 44% on Aug, 13th. The picture was taken in Guitiriz, Galicia, the nearest and darkest place to where I live that I could find until the date. The night was clear enough to try to get a sharp phocus on the moon, one of the things I find more difficult in these early attempts.