Full Moon tonight and not much chance of any reasonable deepsky images. So let's turn a hand to capturing the Moon in it's full glory. The Full Moon can be somewhat difficult to image simply because it is too bright! As we are seeing it full on we are not able to appreciate the mountains, valleys and plains. Normally it is best to image when a thin crescent. At this time we can see the separator line, border between day and night, where mountains cast their shadows. It is interesting to note the Moon does not rise so high in the sky during summer. Although this would suggest better viewing of deepsky objects in summer it is countered by the fact we have fewer hours of darkness. Whereas in Winter with the longer hours of darkness the Moon rises so high it is almost daylight at Full Moon. Images of the Moon take a lot of tweaking and invariably always need improved contrast adjustments. This one is not so bad and is a composite of about a dozen images. The Software has a some difficulty auto aligning these and hence were manually aligned before stacking.
