Oh wait. Here's one of my favorite shots!

52Caddy

With my telescope. I need a moon filter.

DJ-S1

That's really nice, Caddy. What set up do you have?


There's another thread around here about moon shots, you can search for it and see what some of the other guys have come up with too.

tmlphoto

52Caddy wrote:

With my telescope. I need a moon filter.

Nice. There is a moon thread somewhere on dgrin you should check out. Just do a search for moon. What is a moon filter BTW?

wxwax

Great exposure and terrific detail. Nice work.

52Caddy

Thanks for the nice words! I'll search for the moon thread. I also have a sun filter, but I'm having a hard time focusing the camera on those shots. I need some more practice.

One of these days I'm going to try out the scope and camera during the day for some terrestrial viewing.
A moon filter is a filter that reduces the glare and amount of light reflected off the moon. It attaches to the eyepiece of the telescope. Here's an example of what it does (from Telescope.com).


Here's what I'm using:
My Olympus C-3020
Looking through this (again from Telescope.com):

Attached with this adaptor (from scopetronix.com):

Femme_Photale

Wow! The moon looks like a giant melon!

52Caddy

The melloney looking shot, further down from the moon shots, is actually the sun. That one does look like a mellon!