Moon with 40D

Nikolai

I could not pass the pleasure of getting 10Mp shot of the moon. Here is 100% crop:



Canon 40D + EF 100-400 at 400mm + TCx1.4

salazar

Hi Nik, you've been busy with your new 40D's. I've never taken a photo of the moon except during an eclipse. Your photo above, is it a B&W or does the moon really have no discernible colour? How many shots did you need to get one so clear?

Awais Yaqub

In past i use to spot one or 2 aliens. But with d40 i can even see you there

Nikolai

salazar wrote:

Hi Nik, you've been busy with your new 40D's. I've never taken a photo of the moon except during an eclipse. Your photo above, is it a B&W or does the moon really have no discernible colour? How many shots did you need to get one so clear?

Yeah, I need to learn the gear before I use it at Glacier:-)

Moon color is GREATLY affected by the atmosphere. But, as I specified in my Green Flash post, last night we had exquisitely clear air, you could see for 70-100 miles. With this shot I only tweaked the saturation a bit to kill the color noise, but it was pretty much this totally neutral image right off the bat (the histogram was purely white, i.e. all the channels were identical)

I usually take several shots (3-5-10) just to make sure. I also refocus after 1-2. Focusing is the primary issue with the moon shots. Since it's my driveway, I shoot, go back, upload, verify on a big screen, if I don't like it - I shoot again. Originally it could take like 20 shots to get a cream puff, now it's usually 3-5 and they are pretty much all the same.

HTH

Nikolai

Awais,

Awais Yaqub wrote:

In past i use to spot one or 2 aliens. But with d40 i can even see you there

, thank you my friend!

kdog

Very nice, Nikolai. Did you take this on the 22nd or the 23rd? Two things seem curious. The moon looks elongated horizontally. It's not round. Second, compared to the shots I took tonight, yours is flipped horizontally. So it's a mirror image of mine. Very curious.

Cheers,
-joel

Nikolai

Joel,

kdog wrote:

Very nice, Nikolai. Did you take this on the 22nd or the 23rd? Two things seem curious. The moon looks elongated horizontally. It's not round. Second, compared to the shots I took tonight, yours is flipped horizontally. So it's a mirror image of mine. Very curious.

Cheers,
-joel

Thanks!

It was taken last night, just after midnight.

Re: elongation.
I like rotating non-full moon so it fits the frame, also makes it more dramatic, since you never see it this way. But other than that I didn't reshape it.

Re: mirror. Bingo.
It's flipped, not only rotated. Wanted to have some fun, too:-)

riz_sat

it looks like a
golf ball hehe
but that is
spherical anyways
nice work

Nikolai

riz_sat wrote:

it looks like a
golf ball hehe
but that is
spherical anyways
nice work

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