The Moon & Morning Star

The first image links to the single frame selected as the NASA APOD for April 24, 2009. I picked the sharpest one frame from a pile of many I made intending to stack them for better clarity of the low-contrast Moon in the bright morning sky. I like the mysterious arc of the dimly seen Moon in this frame, and it's reasonably true to the visual experience, but I was also interested in what might happen if I stacked additional frames to bring out low-contrast details of the Moon. If you want one of those, scroll down.

 

 

 

Actually, this reveals much more lunar detail than I could see through the eyepiece and result in a very starkly drawn Venus. (The details: original files stacked in Photoshop CS4 Extended, layers manually aligned on the planet Venus, stack converted to a "smart object," and "average" blend mode selected.) I prefer the original, but your mileage may differ.

Put any of the wallpapers you find here (including the files below) on your wall, your office door, your refrigerator. Please, be my guest. If you want to put them in a book, magazine, CD cover, etc., or compile them somewhere, then please get in touch. I'm easy to get along with but I like to know where they go.

 

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