John Sarracino
I had been capturing images of the moon for some time, and the final stacked and processed images were always in monochrome. My workflow was to capture a minimum of several hundred images of the moon and then analyze, stack, and sharpen in three programs, Planetary Image Pre-Processor, Autostakkert!, and Astra Image, respectively. I was fairly satisfied with the detail I could bring out of the moon’s craters and maria. Recently, however, I discovered a web article describing a process to bring out the inherent colors of the minerals in the moon’s surface materials using Photoshop. This image is one of my first attempts to capture and process a Mineral Moon.

John Sarracino

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2021 - 2022

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