Full Moon over Weinheim Castle: multispectral photography II

Here today shots of the full Harvest Moon over Windeck castle here in my hometown Weinheim Germany. Shots were done in full spectrum mode (i.e. mainly infrared) and in reflected ultraviolet using Baader-U filter. Lens used was my UV-Nikkor 105mm quartz fluorite lens. Light source was moonlight resp. the castle lighting system. All shots were done at approx. f8. No later whitebalancing was done, pictures straight out of the camera.

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IR image: 

 

UV image: 

 


Full moon is always special and first I was sad to see all the clouds, but then it turned out quite nicely and all that drama got nicely visible.

I have more moon shots HERE.


Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

Flower Full Moon in reflected ultraviolet (UV) photography

Today is the spring full Flower Moon, the last Supermoon in 2020, which I have shot today in some foggy conditions in reflected ultraviolet photography using a special XNUV and the Baader-U UV filter. Lens was my very special 800mm LDM-1 KATOPTARON mirror only lens on my multispectral camera.

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XNUV Filter (fog was coming up...):


Baader-U Filter:


Baader-U filter (whitebalanced):


Indeed, the moon has UV reflectance and it can be recorded using proper equipment, which makes it nicely visible.

I have written about photographing the Moon previously HERE
 
Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

Full Moon over Weinheim Castle: multispectral photography

Here today shots of the full moon over Windeck castle here in my hometown Weinheim Germany. Shots were done aside from visible photography in reflected ultraviolet using Baader-U filter. Lens used was my CERCO 94mm quartz fluorite lens. Light source was moonlight resp. the castle lighting system. All shots were done at approx. f8. No later whitebalancing was done, pictures straight out of the camera.

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Visible light image:  

UV image:  

IR image:  

Triptych of the above images:  


Full moon is always special and first I was sad to see all teh clouds, but then it turned out quite nicely and all that gets nicely visible.


Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

Cerco lens does Perigee Moon UV-VIS-IR

Well on March 19th, the moon was at its Perigee, closest to earth until 2029 and very bright, so I took a few shots using that CERCO 94mm lens here on my BLOG .

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UV image:


VIS image:


IR image:

And after some multispectral processing using the images of above, one gets that "false color" image:

NASA and other agencies are using these types of false color images to display results of their satellite imaging.

Some better processing even gives it a more 3D appearance:


Here now a simulation, how an UV-Moon would look like as seen from Earth (Weinheim Castle "Windeck"):

Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos