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jfgnet
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Re: What Color is the Moon, Really?

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E_V
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Rook008
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reply to jfgnet
It's a really good picture.
I think that he posted a similar picture before this one of the same subject, but without the color. That too was a great shot of the moon, and I think I had that as a desktop for a while too.
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said by E_V:


A definite 5


pcdebb
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reply to E_V
there's a couple of "4" ratings in there



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said by pcdebb:

there's a couple of "4" ratings in there
Yeah you have to chalk that up as the jealousy factor.
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ih Pets

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I guess the beauty of photography is that its so subjective. I have never seen a photo of the moon as beautiful as this in my life.

Its magnificent.



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Still an amazing pic no matter how many times you look at it



NoelC
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I'd like to personally thank every one of the viewers of this thread...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!



-Noel



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said by ih Pets:

I guess the beauty of photography is that its so subjective. I have never seen a photo of the moon as beautiful as this in my life.

Its magnificent.
Yeah and oddly enough not from NASA THEMSELVES (BUT DID POST IT) or other astronomical sources... not saying there are none out there, but likely not NEARLY as widely seen.

I forget if he did say how many frames this mosaic was made from... likely 100 of more... that is a lot PRECISE shooting, work and rendering time. And we are ONLY seeing the typical SINGLE frame res... this would make One helluva wall mural!!!
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said by Hayward:

said by ih Pets:

I guess the beauty of photography is that its so subjective. I have never seen a photo of the moon as beautiful as this in my life.

Its magnificent.
Yeah and oddly enough not from NASA THEMSELVES (BUT DID POST IT) or other astronomical sources... not saying there are none out there, but likely not NEARLY as widely seen.

I forget if he did say how many frames this mosaic was made from... likely 100 of more... that is a lot PRECISE shooting, work and rendering time. And we are ONLY seeing the typical SINGLE frame res... this would make One helluva wall mural!!!
If you mean the picture this thread is about.. it's made of 15 frames, stitched together in PS CS2. At least that's what the author said near the beginning of the thread
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Hayward
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Looked back and your are right but still 15 images even with stitching software what it is today...

Over lapped likely only as much as needed, and well tracked... and even then I have done some pretty sloppy but easily stiched full res 4 frame shots that took seemingly forever to render... this is JUST FLAT OUT DEDICATION TO A TASK...and OBVIOUSLY well appreciated,amatureand pros (like NASA) alike.
And even just 15 (again REAL precise if that few) and a lot of METICULOUS well choreographed mapping work!!!
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illJazz
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reply to NoelC
Oh, absolutely. Don't get me wrong. I did not mean to diminish the excellence of the work presented here by pointing out that there were only 15 shots that were stitched together rather than 100+. Not at all. I just meant to bend your assumption towards truth, is all
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NoelC
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Thanks guys.

I stitched these together as layers in Photoshop. My scope delivers an almost perfectly distortion-free field, so what was left was really just rotation and placement to get features to line up properly.

I can tell you I needed every bit of power and memory in this big 64 bit Dell workstation to get the job done.

The file with all the layers is an 839 megabyte .psd file, which (even with real power on tap) takes 20 seconds to load into Photoshop. Here is a small crop from the original mosaic showing the crater Copernicus, which is 58 miles across and is 2.3 miles deep.


Crater Copernicus and Points Nearby


-Noel


justin
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Would a full sized wall poster be possible from that 939 megabyte image? any plans to offer one?



DrewCapu
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»Rule-Breaking Resizing for Poster-Sized Prints might work on the files already available



NoelC
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You'd want to use the highest resolution image possible for a huge poster.

I'm considering offering large prints of this, given the high level of interest.

Any idea where to get a huge poster printed?

-Noel


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I have used these guys for some 20x30 shots and one 4 foot long panorama. »www.ephotoz.com/

The quality was very good to excellent, they are professionally framed now and hanging in my home. I did not need him to clean up the shots, just print them.

Not sure how big he can go, but he has a link for custom sizes.



Jason Levine
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reply to NoelC
I had some 16x20 posters done by WinkFlash and was happy with them. They go from 11.25x14.25 for $4.95 to 44x66 for $69.95 (plus $3.99 for the first poster and $0.99 for each additional poster).



dkoert

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reply to NoelC
Here it is!!!

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