Moon Mars Occultation

Mars is about to move behind the Moon during a recent occultation shot through obscuring atmospheric ionic conditions, and resurrected via multiple core gradient level image processing. Note the various unexpected albedo levels from the planet and the aura produced by the Moon disk perimeter, likely due to limb variations in brightness and scattering in the atmosphere.

Moon Mars Occultation

Heavily processed and amplified Moon Mars occultation image shot through heavy random upper ionic atmospheric pollution. Shooting through a blanket layer of total sky obscuration is an art within itself. Subtracting off light pollution and balancing a view through ionic obscura requires numerous software packages programmed to resurrect the latent digital image. Background sky is a contentious variable dealt with by using multiple iterations of software processing.