The second leftover Moon photo from December 29 – and this one had some cracking craters!

I have two Moon photos from last year left… this one from December 28 is more an excercise if it’s possible to make something out of a bunch of really foggy and cloudy shots. It somewhat worked.

A bit of fresh 2016 Moon!

After the smoke from the fireworks had cleared, so had the sky and we were treated to a nice conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter – which, as always, looked much more awesome seen with your own eyes than in this photo. This was a great way to start the new year!

We wouldn’t have thought it would be possible from the weather forecast alone,
but here’s another Christmas Moon from this evening.

I actually got a peek at the almost full Christmas Eve Moon yesterday after midnight, but it was too cloudy to take decent pictures and I only got a fuzzy mess. But then, after a day full of rain, the skies were suddenly clear this evening – so here’s the rare Christmas Moon of 2015.

Since it’s absolutely pouring down here today on Christmas Eve and I have no chance whatsoever looking at tonight’s full Moon, here’s yesterday’s instead – which was not bad at all too!

The last one from a series of Moon photos I had taken at the end of November.

A slightly better looking Moon from November 21. I was recently asked why I always put Moonstack into the title – it’s because I stack several images (usually between 10 and 20) with Registax to improve the image quality. The camera is only a second-hand Canon Powershot SX1 without any additional lenses – at 20x zoom, which is 560mm in DSLR terms, the Moon is just about 550-600 pixels wide. But this is still amazing considering the camera had just cost me €80 a year ago.

This is an older attempt at capturing the Moon from November 18. I never processed it and it’s actually a bit unsharp, but because I don’t have any photos for the last post of the day I’m just throwing it in as an example how to make something halfway decent out of a less optimal source image.