How to Photograph a Mineral Moon 

3 years later and still a phenomal tutorial! Thank you for not only being thorough, but as concise as possible!

Great tutorial man, glad RU-vid recommended this to me years later!

Brand new to the channel and Instagram. I'm blown away by your work! Amazing!

Greetings from Sweden where we sometimes stand in -20 degrees Celsius. But the infinite beauty of the universe keeps one warm :)

Thank you so much for taking the trouble to create this brilliant tutorial. This was my first attempt at a mineral moon and it came out pretty well!

1st time here, already a fan🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

"we're just learning stuff all the time" X"D you daggum right we are. Loved the tutorial.

I'll remember "drizzle off" with a big ol' DSLR. Epic tip. ;) Great videos man! Thanks!

Thank You for this Video and the pics!!

Great stuff

Excellent details, thanks for sharing complete details 🙏

This was super Matt! Really really helped me out. Happy New Year :)

0:06 We freeze our fingers off... Thats how... Great Fun!

What an amazing tutorial! I've been looking for an easy to understand tutorial and finally found this! Thank you so much!

Thank you very much for your detailed video!

wooooooooooooow amazing work!! thank you so much for the tutorial, I'll try to follow it too!! love from India!! :)

Wow…. so much to learn! Well done.😉

Great video!

Those gloves are awesome!

Wow awesome

Thank you for your great tutorial. I like the way you explain and talk about things. Have a nice day!

Mineral Moon looks great.

Great work Matt this is a helpful tutorial! Love those Moon shots!

Great video. I have attempted this using other tutorials but this worked out very well.

Wow Matt that was an awesome tutorial! There is a lot of steps from the raw image to the final shot however it is worth the work that went into this amazing photo of the Moon!

Great look and outside the classroom facts of the how and not only showing off the impressive whats of the results. It reminds me of the night class I had taken on perfectly using all the manual numbers and his honor, Judge Histogram on my first DSLR a decade ago. My canon 50D has a 150-300 canon and my normally used l night one of a Tamron 200 with the better f-stop. I’m gonna dive into the Sigma 600 you referred to and showed off as it will give great results in diversity of both day and night looking and shooting nature around and much up above. Thanks and show with the facts away. Bring it.

Awesome inspiring

Great thank you

I think the coldest I shot in this year was -25° batteries only lasted like 30mins each haha. Cool tutorial. Just started playing with the lunar side of Astro imaging and this was a great mineral moon explanation.

Thanks a lot ! This was really helpful :)

I recently followed this tutorial and it was the best explained I found. Thanks mate 🙏

Found your video while trying to tame my moon's chromatic abberation. By far the best PS camera raw workflow to bring out the color that I have seen. Thank you. Want to know more of how you fixed the that color cast issue.

Man u are amazing thanks for all of your nice videos , helps a lot !!!

Great video and tutorial!!!

New to astrophotography............super video and very helpful............am I correct in assuming that to get images to edit for a "mineral moon" they have to be taken with a standard camera that shoots in RAW, and not a dedicated astro camera that saves the images as .fit files?

thank you so much!!!!, just got a Nikon d5300 as my first dslr and finally got myself a decent moon shot thanks to you. Only with a 200mm lense tho lol but still im quite blown away and i might become addicted to doing astro stuff. R.I.P my bank account lol

Thanks for the video! Helped me out a lot

decent tutorial. but your explanation is very poor. You didn't explain any of the function of the softwares that you used. I had to look for other tutorials to operate those softwares. And lastly, on camera raw, you hid the entire adjustment panel with the voice over video thumbnail, where the adjusctments you were doing were more important than your face. Please try to explain a bit better next time.

Debes ver esto! Vibes of cosmos, en youtube. The moon is earth.

Oh he had so much to learn 0:22

You facial video is in totally the wrong place to show the Post amendment for the pic??

Awsome Video mate 👍🏽👍🏽

Your video was great. Really enjoyed your style of going through things. Would love to know more about your astro editing workflow for getting better at editing. Like how you decide what things to adjust in which situations and why. I think that is what I'm weakest on of everything. Do you have any resources you could suggest for getting a better understanding of editing, particularly as it applies to astro? Either way, thanks for the great video!

You mentioned converting to tiff from raw, what if you shoot in tiff to save the middle man?

Great video 👍 I am not a proffesional when it comes to editing so that part felt quite hard to me but I will give it a try 👌

Why did you do individual images? A lot of what I have read and what people have told me is that it's better to record the moon and then process for individual frames and then stack. A 60fps camera will have 60 frames a second and supposedly film mode auto sorts all the settings like ISO for you. I've yet to do it and I'm not saying what you've done is wrong or right, just curious as to why you did photos instead of film.

Awesome tutorial man!

Tried to check out your Instagram but the link is broken or something. Nice video btw

How and where does one save the stacked image from Astrostakkert 3? I stack and look at the folder where the original TIFF images were and see no stacked photo. Does the new stacked image have a name and where (what folder) is it located? I see no "Save As" in Autostakkert.

Are you shooting with dslr or zwo? I see zwo in speed up vidoe

So , are these colors all Natural but hidden by the brightness and reflectivity of the surface? And You only brought out and enhanced colors right? Or did you add a little something extra ? Awesome either way 👍

Whoa. Loved the video. One question, can we get the same kinda colors if I use a telephoto lens on camera instead of a telescope?

I’m trying to photo-stack the moon, but I am too zoomed in because of my telescope. Can I photo-stack the moon if I have pictures of the moon, but in pieces rather then the entire moon?

I don't understand how you're drawing out the various minerals of the moon. It appears to me that you're just introducing artificial color distortions by working at the saturation limits of Photoshop. Help me understand how the colors relate to the mineral content?

This was awesome! I tried it with my Canon R5 and 400mm lens (and 1.4x to 560mm). Not quite the detail you got, but came out nicely. Need a bigger lens! Thanks again!

Hello! Maybe you will not read this since it's a 2 year old video, but following your tutorial there's a huge issue on my side: When I open the edited .tif file from Registax in Photoshop, when I crank up the calibration's saturation bars and the basic saturation and vibrance bars, my image gets saturated pretty fast and is virtually impossible to correct the white balance because there's a huge tint of blue and yellow on the moon. I have tried different export options from Autostakkert and Registax but the final .tif image that I open in photoshop doesn't give me the same freedom you show in your tutorial... as if somehow it contained much less color information. I must mention that if I do the same with a single raw image in photoshop (from the 100 I used in Autostakkert for the stack) it works fine and I get lots of color, just not as crisp because it is not the stacked image. Do you have any idea what could be the cause of this issue? any insight as little as it is could help. Thanks and wish you a nice August!!

Thanks for all the details on the video. Have a question, when i place the align points (by default settings) on AutoStakkert, i am having 297 APs with 160 size. Is that a good setting? Does it matter if i keep high number APs but lower size than yours?

lol Nice beginning. What makes things worse is the fact that everything within view of direct moonlight is always 10-15 degrees cooler than the shade. It sounds funny but you need to sit in the shade when you film the full moon, to stay warmer!! The moon and sun are electric anode and cathode. There is so much we were taught that is wrong! The moon is pulling up energy from the surface of earth. It is actually the focal point of the energy rising up. That energy gets sent to the sun and sent back down to earth. This might sound strange out crazy but I assure you that every human on earth can easily prove this to themselves, and this has been scientifically tested and proven for 100's of years. EDIT: I failed to mention that we also do not view the moon in it's location. It is actually a reflection of the energy coming up off the surface of earth and hitting the input location. Many old astronomy books talk about the fact that the moon is transparent and stars and planets can be seen through it at different times.

Supermoon Bloodmoon Harvestmoon Wolfmoon Wheatmoon Cornmoon Pinkmoon Snowmoon Stormmoon And mineralmoon

Which camera did you use?

I am a bigger fan :)

Thanks so much for this tutorial, will put this info to use once I get my telescope. What’s the name of the music that plays during the video?

As not all of us have photoshop, can you make a tutorial of mineral moon in gimp?

Which telescope do u own!! Btw superb video 👍👍

"Get your happy ass inside where it's warm." I hit the subscribe button immediately after that.

Took a bunch of shots of the full.moon tonight pretty much same aperture as you but damn Microsoft ice is no longer available for download 😕

which photoshop version are u using?

With an SCT scope and the camera at prime focus (no lens train), is there really chromatic aberration?

The intro song has grown on me

Matt, grrrrrr have tried this on my 5Dmk2 my 1DSMk3 I am either too blue or too red. Very frustrating.🤦🏻‍♂️

Thanks for this inspiration. I gave this a try and got sort of decent results using a Panasonic bridge camera. I tested 3 methods for overall processing, all three started with PIPP. #1 imported the 20 images int Autostakert, #2 all 20 into Registax, #3 all 20 into Photoshop Elements with Elements+ add on and used noise reduction stacking (PS median stacking). For my small sensor camera (600mm equivalent lens) #3 provided the sharpest results. However no where near the results you obtained. I'm shopping for a telescope in hopes that my reuslts will be better.

Mittens!