Lunar photographs

Published in The Lunar Observer (Jan 2025, page 47) — whose assembled image is shown below. The photograph was processed via Seestar’s internal software, Autostakert version 4, and RegiStax version 6. The photograph was  post-processed using Photoshop Elements 2024.

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Published in The Lunar Observer (April 2025)

Original photograph captured with the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s native camera app, snapped by Dylan Hilligoss as he held the phone up to the eyepiece of the TU Observatory telescope. Stanley then flipped the picture and further edited it with Photoshop Elements.
Steve Rifkin edited this photograph and the one immediately below. For one picture, Steve used a levels/contrast adjustment and for the other he applied only a contrast adjustment. For software, Steve has PixInsight version 1.8 and Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Steve created the panorama above to show all three images. The one on the left is Stanley’s photograph that he had edited in Photoshop Elements. The two pictures on the right show Steve’s edits.
Artistic rendering that Stanley made from his original image, which he had already flipped. After he made his first edits with Photoshop Elements 2024, he cropped the picture. Stanley next applied a Hue/Saturation adjustment (hue 15, saturation 25, lightness 0) and he then colorized the photograph. He also performed a Levels adjustment with settings of 0, 1.00, and 186. Finally, he added a Warming Filter (81).