Have we seen that one before, PF? It's excellent, a perfect exposure. Until reading about it here, I hadn't realized how difficult it was to shoot the moon. As it were.
Neat shot, Pathfinder. Did you have your camera mounted on a telescope? My husband has a great telescope. Maybe should try this. How is it done?
It was shot from a standard tripod with a telephoto lens. Since the moon is a sunlit object. it is exposed like any other earthbound sunlit object - with the sunny f16 rule --- or --- 1/ISO at f16 for a fulll front lit sun lit object.
From the EXIF data for this image = ISO 100, 1/500sec f5.6 which is the same as 1/250 at f8 or 1/125 at f11. Apparently I opened up one full stop for better exposure when I shot this last APril.
This was shot RAW in my 10D. Actually in processing the RAW file I gave an additional 2 stops of exposure without burning out the highlights. SO I would suggest starting with the sunny f/16 rule, but would bracket 2 stops at least from there .
As for needing an astrotelescope, you do not need a motor driven telescope mount unless your exposures are longer than 5-10 seconds for exposures of the moon.
Great shot, I’m SO jealous! Wish my little digital had that resolution, tried a few with my new Oylmpus C740, but with only 3.2 MegP. can't get that amount of detail. Though now that I've read up a little on digital ISO I think I'll have try another one and set the C740 manually to 100 and see if that helps. Your shot reminds me of my shots with my old Nikon FTn using an 8 inch Newtonian at prime focus, at 1200mm makes a great long focal length lens and as you mention no need for any type of guiding as the moon is a sunlit object. Guess a digital SLR will have to be my next photographic purchase.
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That was shot with a 300mm and a 2x telextender last April. Cool, dry air helps a lot.. I hope to shoot some more this weekend if I am not shut out by clouds. It is not looking too good here right now:cry
That was shot with a 300mm and a 2x telextender last April. Cool, dry air helps a lot.. I hope to shoot some more this weekend if I am not shut out by clouds. It is not looking too good here right now:cry
Nor here. Thanks for the info. The best I can manage is 300.
Nice moon shot, Bodwick! That's a lot of gear piled onto the lens!
All I can muster up is a 300. So I made a rather crude composite of two exposures. Thanks to Charlie Brown for telling me the moon was out - I had given up on it.
The clouds finally cleared this evening and I was able to get a few shots before the mosquito fogging crew drove by spraying kerosene and I had to go back indoors....
I finally got a moon photo. After reading this thread I realized I've been WAY overexposing them, so tonight I shot this:
No great shakes, especially compared to the beautiful shots posted here, but I was really happy with it because it's with my little 3MP at 10X (around 330mm, I think?). And especially because I learned a lot by making so many mistakes on my previous attempts.
Bodwick, the ejecta rays in your shot are phenominal, fantastic! And pathfinder too, amazing stuff. Wax, that's cool 'shopping, really nice.
Nice job, DJ. Who'd a thought it was so hard to shoot the moon? Especially interesting is how much lens power you need.
BYW, what's an ejecta ray? Is that the star-like spray of material from an asteroid impact on the moon?
you got it. The material that splashes out of the crater is lighter than the original layer of regolith (moon stuff!), so it stands out. They are really noticeable in Bodwick's photo.
I always wondered why it came out in rays, not as a wave. But have you ever seen those photos of a milk drop? There's a ring of material displaced, and then crown-like dots on top of that; I guess that's similar to how the rays are formed. And also there's a central peak, and some craters show that feature as well.
I will be on Cape Cod this weekend with an astronomy enthusiast who is bringing his 10-inch scope. But I don't think my S1 has the right kind of lens to adapt to it. :cry
you got it. The material that splashes out of the crater is lighter than the original layer of regolith (moon stuff!), so it stands out. They are really noticeable in Bodwick's photo.
I always wondered why it came out in rays, not as a wave. But have you ever seen those photos of a milk drop? There's a ring of material displaced, and then crown-like dots on top of that; I guess that's similar to how the rays are formed. And also there's a central peak, and some craters show that feature as well.
I will be on Cape Cod this weekend with an astronomy enthusiast who is bringing his 10-inch scope. But I don't think my S1 has the right kind of lens to adapt to it. :cry
An awful lot of images were made with Nikon CoolPix and other types of digital cameras by focusing them for infinity and holding them up close to the ocular and taking a picture. This only works for short exposures of course, but the moon is very bright in a good astro telescope. There are adapter rings made for 28mm and larger sizes to mount to astrotelescopes, but just holding it by hand might alloww you to capture an image of the moon. Give it a shot - you might be surprised. Using the real time LCD finders can be a real big help doing this.
It was fairly clear here tonight in central Indiana and I set up my binoculars on a standard tripod pointed at the moon and focused them carefully. I used a Nikon 995 CoolPix HANDHELD in manual mode - It is a 3.2 Mpixel camera. I set the aperature and the shutter speed in Manual Mode and held the front of the lens behind the ocular of the binoculars - where the bright spot of light was shining - and captured several frames. This is not easy to do handheld, but with an adapter to hold the camera steady it would be duck soup. I captured these two images this way this evening. Most of the lack of sharpness is the fact that it was done handheld. These are not stacked or averaged - just brought into PS and curved and sharpened and saved as jpgs. The camera focus was set for infinity - any one could do this with most P&Ss that allow manual control of focus, aperature and shutter speed.
Wow. I never would have believed that you could get that good of a shot just by holding the camera up to the eyepiece. I've always read that you need adapter rings, and you have to be at prime focus, blah, blah, blah. Now I'm really looking forward to the weekend! If I get anything I'll post 'em next week.
Wow. I never would have believed that you could get that good of a shot just by holding the camera up to the eyepiece. I've always read that you need adapter rings, and you have to be at prime focus, blah, blah, blah. Now I'm really looking forward to the weekend! If I get anything I'll post 'em next week.
As I said, this is not real easy to do handheld - you have to have the LCD on real time and kind of move the camera side to side and fore and aft until you can see a good image in the LCD and then push the shutter. The big advantage of the adapters, I suspect, is that they will allow the use of the cameras self timer to avoid any camera movement. Many of my images were very blurry due to obvious camera movement. The Binoculars WILL NEED TO BE TRIPOD MOUNTED for this to work - you CANNOT hold the binoculars stable enough without a tripod or similar fixed support. The handheld camera can be finagled, but not the binoculars. Try it, it is kind of satisfying Glad you liked the images from my old 3.2 Mpixel P&S. I like the CoolPix - it makes great pictures.
Great weather on the Cape this weekend. Cool, clear nights, nice dark skies. Unfortunately, no telescope shots. Our hosts had a death in their family Friday night and had to return home.
So, another time. Not a big deal in the scheme of things.
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Neat shot, Pathfinder. Did you have your camera mounted on a telescope? My husband has a great telescope. Maybe should try this. How is it done?
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From the EXIF data for this image = ISO 100, 1/500sec f5.6 which is the same as 1/250 at f8 or 1/125 at f11. Apparently I opened up one full stop for better exposure when I shot this last APril.
This was shot RAW in my 10D. Actually in processing the RAW file I gave an additional 2 stops of exposure without burning out the highlights. SO I would suggest starting with the sunny f/16 rule, but would bracket 2 stops at least from there .
As for needing an astrotelescope, you do not need a motor driven telescope mount unless your exposures are longer than 5-10 seconds for exposures of the moon.
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Your shot reminds me of my shots with my old Nikon FTn using an 8 inch Newtonian at prime focus, at 1200mm makes a great long focal length lens and as you mention no need for any type of guiding as the moon is a sunlit object. Guess a digital SLR will have to be my next photographic purchase.
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Nor here. Thanks for the info. The best I can manage is 300.
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F11I shot a few pic's when for the first time in weeks!!(Well it is summer ....) the clouds cleared tonight..
Shot with my trusty 200mm +x2 + x1.4 supported on a couple of tripods at:-
F16 125 bracket 1 stop each way and F11 125 same bracketing.
I combined a bright and dark exposure in PS using Layer Difference flatten. Unsharpmask at a high 150 and a touch of contrast.
It's late so I'll look again tomorrow and see what I got.......
Well worth catching a few shots over the weekend though. It looks like the weather is good this time of year....
A bit more detail than my Venus transit
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All I can muster up is a 300. So I made a rather crude composite of two exposures. Thanks to Charlie Brown for telling me the moon was out - I had given up on it.
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f16 1/200 ISO 200 RAW 400mm + 2x extender
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No great shakes, especially compared to the beautiful shots posted here, but I was really happy with it because it's with my little 3MP at 10X (around 330mm, I think?). And especially because I learned a lot by making so many mistakes on my previous attempts.
Bodwick, the ejecta rays in your shot are phenominal, fantastic! And pathfinder too, amazing stuff. Wax, that's cool 'shopping, really nice.
BYW, what's an ejecta ray? Is that the star-like spray of material from an asteroid impact on the moon?
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I always wondered why it came out in rays, not as a wave. But have you ever seen those photos of a milk drop? There's a ring of material displaced, and then crown-like dots on top of that; I guess that's similar to how the rays are formed. And also there's a central peak, and some craters show that feature as well.
I will be on Cape Cod this weekend with an astronomy enthusiast who is bringing his 10-inch scope. But I don't think my S1 has the right kind of lens to adapt to it. :cry
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f4.6 1/22 sec ISO 100
f10.6 8/1000 sec ISO 100
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So, another time. Not a big deal in the scheme of things.
400mm w/ 1.4xTCII, tripod
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Very Nice and very sharp TML, your new lens seems to be very crisp optically. Are you a Nikonian or an Canonian?
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Pathfinder I love the detail in your moon shots.
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