So here is the first of two Full Moons in March rising over Little Rock. I pulled out all the stops for this one after putting the trash in the trash can and going back in for the camera. Hope you enjoy.
My First RGB Image 1/14/2018
Last night, in 20+ degree weather, while I was home piddling on my laptop the Robotic Research Telescope at the River Ridge Observatory was busy taking some pictures for me. The run didn’t complete, I presume clouds came in, but I got 4 60 second images in red, green, and blue as well as one visual. I stacked those this morning according to color then combined in Photoshop with a how-to I found. Obviously 60 seconds was too much for some of the stars and it filled the pixel well depth or whatever it is called in several places. The main thing is color from monochrome and I don’t even know what I’m doing. I left the potential luminance image out of this, it is strictly RGB not LRGB.
Super Moon over Little Rock, January 1, 2018
I asked the family if they wanted to go shoot the rising Moon in the 20 degree weather with me. They all looked back at me as if I had a chicken on my head. They may have had a point as my fingers were in a lot of pain by the time I got done. Here is a short video and a final still of the event.
