Ho trascorso 30 ore a elaborare immagini della luna scattate durante una sirene di raid aereo a Kiev.

Despite the fact that almost every night in Kyiv being marked by drone/missile attacks and air defense activity, I continue to photograph the night sky.

This single image is the result of stacking and editing about 500 frames (20GB of raw data) taken on 3 April 2025! It took me 30 hours of processing to get the details and colors right.

Normally we see the Moon as gray. Here I intentionally exaggerated the saturation of the lunar seas. The red-pink hues indicate iron oxide and the blue hues represent titanium oxide.
In addition, I was able to show the unilluminated side of the Moon with the HDR technique of stitching together few dozen frames at slower shutter speeds.
Notice the various optical phenomena observed on the photo: rainbow around the Moon due to dispersion, diffraction rays due to the construction of Newtonian telescope.

Equipment: I used an Canon 6D amateur camera, a 2x Barlow lens, a GSO 150/750 reflector telescope and an Arsenal EQ5 mount.

You can download the full-resolution image for your wallpaper from my [Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/201107309@N04).
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