Advice please?

Yakman

Hi I'm looking for advice on equipment for taking photos of the moon.
I have a Canon Rebel XTI coupled with the Canon 70-300mm IS lens. The pictures I'm currently gettting look pretty good but I would like a reasonable option to zoom in even closer.

Thanks for your advice and recommendations,
Yakman

ziggy53

Yakman wrote:

Hi I'm looking for advice on equipment for taking photos of the moon.
I have a Canon Rebel XTI coupled with the Canon 70-300mm IS lens. The pictures I'm currently gettting look pretty good but I would like a reasonable option to zoom in even closer.

Thanks for your advice and recommendations,
Yakman

Yakman, welcome to the Digital Grin.

Please use the following link to take you to a recent discussion in the Techniques forum:

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=104706

Tango

heres another link to help in your efforts...

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=106981&highlight=5200mm

Yakman

Thank you!
Hi and thank you both for the welcome as well as the information.

Yakman

Yakman

Apparently all I need is a bit more lens!

Tango

that should getter done.

ziggy53

Yakman wrote:

Apparently all I need is a bit more lens!

Don't forget, we all have access to one of the most powerful telescopes ever conceived, the Hubble Space Telescope.

Here is Copernicus as imaged by the HST (about 2.4MB):

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1999/14/images/b/formats/full_jpg.jpg

... and this (around 500KB):

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1999/14/images/c/formats/full_jpg.jpg

The second image is resolving detail down to about 1 American football field across. Not bad for about 240,000 miles away. (384,400 km)

Tango

so when are they going to prove they went to the moon? (not that i know one way or the other)

show me the equipment left behind...

swintonphoto

AaronNelson wrote:

so when are they going to prove they went to the moon? (not that i know one way or the other)

show me the equipment left behind...