I originally set up on this night with the intention of capturing more data on the Orion Nebula to add to what I had collected a couple of weeks previously, but it quickly became obvious that the moon being so close to my target was making it a futile effort. The light from the moon was simply washing out what I was aiming at, meaning that anything I captured wouldn't have a high chance of improving the quality of what I had already captured.

Rather than give up, I decided just to aim at the moon itself. As with my previous moon images, I chose to process this with colour enhancements to emphasise the mineral composition of the different areas of the moon's surface. I do have a personal preference for these coloured moon images, but I know that they're not to everyone's taste, so I normally make additional versions without the colour enahncements applied. This set of data also gave me my first opportunity to work with an updated version of my usual lunar and planetary stacking program, so this was my first image using Autostakkert!3.