Some more Moon photos

It's been a while since I last photographed the Moon, but the day before yesterday it felt like the right time to bring out my telescope + camera combo once again, and capture this week's waxing gibbous. Nothing changed for me in terms of equipment, or how I make these photos, but I refined my post-processing methods some more, and took the opportunity to revisit some of my previous lunar photos and apply what I've learned since. This is where I wish I had kept all the raw files for these... the reason I didn't do it wasn't so much due to storage limitation, but me being unable to foresee the need to ever touch those gain. That's one lesson learned... at least the Moon isn't going anywhere. I can say my general attitude towards archiving has changed a lot in recent times.

Without further ado:

And here are two more from March, last year:

It amazes me how different the lunar surface can look depending on the Moon's phase, the first two images show this really well: they both have the Moon illuminated roughly the same amount, but from different directions. Distinct, high-contrasting craters are nothing more than fuzzy patches on the other one, and vice-versa. Isn't that cool?