Astrophotographer Moon Image 8-inch Telescope
Photo credit: Daryavaseum
When you look at pictures of the Moon like this, a giant telescope usually comes to mind. Amateur astrophotographer Darya Kawa Mizra captured this incredibly sharp image of the Moon using a Celestron Nexstar 8SE telescope along with a Canon EOS 1200D camera at prime focus. The colors you see are the minerals reflecting off the surface and were slightly enhanced in post processing.


Astrophotographer Moon Image 8-inch Telescope
To create this image, Darya had to stack over 360 RAW images in Photoshop to bring out the details while reducing noise. The blue you see is titanium and the red color is copper with oxygen. If you have a Leica APO-Telyt-R 400mm DSLR lens, even more incredible Moon shots can be taken, including of the International Space Station.

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