My friend said use a UV cut filter for moon shots, I thought he was wrong

Last month my buddy Mark kept insisting I put a UV cut filter on my telescope for photographing the moon. I told him the moon is bright enough and filters just mess with the image. Well I finally tried it on a full moon night two weeks ago. Man was I wrong. The UV cut filter actually made the edges way sharper and reduced that blue haze I always got. I had been blaming my cheap camera for soft pictures but it was the light scattering all along. Has anyone else had a similar experience where a simple filter changed your photos that much?

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rowank695d ago

Have you tried stacking multiple shots yet after the filter trick? That combo really takes it to another level for crisp detail without processing artifacts. I started with a moon filter then doubled down on stacking and never looked back.

the_james5d ago

Wait woah hold on, @rowank69 did you just say stacking shots on top of the UV filter? That's crazy. I haven't even thought about stacking yet, I was still just pumped about the filter fix. So you do the stacking with the filter still on the lens? That sounds like a recipe for some wild sharpness. I gotta try this Friday night if the weathers clear. My raw images were already way better with the UV cut, adding stacking might just break my brain.