Full moon fever!!/Lunar "X"/General moon shots

[coryndiego]

Full Moon Oct 11th

Oct 11th over San Diego.

 

[oblomow]

Indoor full moon. 'the largest moon on earth' on exibition in Oberhausen, Germany

View from above

 

[fpnc]

Five Moons In One Picture -- Earth's Moon, Jupiter's Callisto, Io, Europa, and Ganymede on Flickr you can view a larger version of this image and read additional details on the conjunction of the moon and Jupiter which happened on Dec. 6, 2011.

 

[PWNkake]

Just posted up pics of my barn door. Here are the links. Let me know what you think!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattharbison/sets/72157628351766493/

And one pic of the setup:

Can't wait to shoot with it!

I used Gary's write up found here: http://www.garyseronik.com/?q=node/52

Very detailed and works like a charm.

 

[fpnc]

Lunar eclipse on the morning of December 10, 2011.

Nikon D5100 with 70-300mm zoom at 300mm f5.6 setting, ISO 200, 1 second exposure.

Lunar Eclipse December 10, 2011 5:56AM PST

 

[mtbdudex]

Just posted up pics of my barn door. Here are the links. Let me know what you think!
And one pic of the setup:
Can't wait to shoot with it!
I used Gary's write up found here: http://www.garyseronik.com/?q=node/52
Very detailed and works like a charm.

Sweet, and thx for the link.
Looking forward to picts taken with this.
You've motivate me for a winter DIY project.

My contribution to this thread....
Clear skies, and its been quite a while since I took a picture of Luna....keep looking up people.

 

[RHVC59]

Moonrise the other evening, Hand Held

Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: 28-300 mm f/3.5-5.6 Shot at 200 mm
Exposure: Auto exposure, Program AE, 1/80 sec, f/5.6, ISO 250

 

[PWNkake]

Getting there...

Here are my test shots from tonight... Any questions are welcome but a GREAT first test i think. Tomorrow night, i'm driving an hour away to get out of the light pollution and fire this baby up!!!!! WOOT!

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjxmxhWM

Tracking platform ON - LEFT or TOP Tracking platform OFF- RIGHT or BOTTOM

 

[mtbdudex]

Last night, Sunday Jan 8, clouds so captured this moon halo:
Canon T1i, tripod, 4 second exposure @ ISO100, f3.5, 15-85mm lens @ 15mm.

and upon waking this morning 4am, Monday Jan 9, capture the full moon w/o clouds,
(official Full Moon was 9 January 2012 at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. )
560mm via 70-200 L f2.8 IS II + TC's 1.4x and 2x, some crop

more crop

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Lunar eclipse on the morning of December 10, 2011.

Nikon D5100 with 70-300mm zoom at 300mm f5.6 setting, ISO 200, 1 second exposure.

Moonrise the other evening, Hand Held

Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: 28-300 mm f/3.5-5.6 Shot at 200 mm
Exposure: Auto exposure, Program AE, 1/80 sec, f/5.6, ISO 250

great shots both of you

 

[G.T.]

What do you think? Shot with Miranda 70-300mm f:4.5-5.6 on my GF1.

 

[fpnc]

Five Views of the Waxing Crescent Moon on Flickr you can view a larger version of this photo and read additional details about its creation.

All images taken on January 27, 2012 with my Astro-Tech AT72ED telescope coupled to my Nikon D5100 DSLR.

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...What do you think? Shot with Miranda 70-300mm f:4.5-5.6 on my GF1.

Well done for a 300mm telephoto.

Also, your Flickr link (in your signature) seems to lead to an error.

 

[G.T.]

Well done for a 300mm telephoto.

Also, your Flickr link (in your signature) seems to lead to an error.

Thanks and the signature link should be fixed now. Not sure how that happened, I'm certain when I created it I made sure it worked. Oh well thanks for letting me know .

 

[mtbdudex]

This shot taken February 8, 2012, nice to see Luna on a clear, cold night.
I put the gear outside for 45 minutes to ensure no thermal issue of lens/camera in cold weather.
Canon T1i @ 560mm via 70-200 L + (2) TC's.
ISO100, F11, 1/400 shutter. PP in Aperture 3.

 

[gaz81]

Here are some of mine:


IMG_0735 by Gary Sutton, on Flickr


IMG_0734 - Version 2 by Gary Sutton, on Flickr


Untitled by Gary Sutton, on Flickr


Untitled by Gary Sutton, on Flickr

 

[fpnc]

Here are some of mine...

Does your Canon camera have an electronic first curtain shutter? If so, did you use it because that might help a lot with your photography through the telescope. From a stability point of view, your system looks fairly light weight so any shutter/mirror vibration is going to cause your images to be somewhat blurred.

Your images look fairly good, so it may not be that much of an issue but I know that I'm constantly fighting against vibrations with my Nikon DSLR and I'm pretty close to moving to a different camera just because of this problem.

 

[gaz81]

Does your Canon camera have an electronic first curtain shutter? If so, did you use it because that might help a lot with your photography through the telescope. From a stability point of view, your system looks fairly light weight so any shutter/mirror vibration is going to cause your images to be somewhat blurred.

Your images look fairly good, so it may not be that much of an issue but I know that I'm constantly fighting against vibrations with my Nikon DSLR and I'm pretty close to moving to a different camera just because of this problem.

It's only a very cheap scope with a very basic mount so getting it steady and focused is hard work.

I did use mirror lock up, that helped a lot. I think I would get much better result with using a decent scope with a proper EQ mount.

Can't afford that though!

 

[fpnc]

It's only a very cheap scope with a very basic mount so getting it steady and focused is hard work.

I did use mirror lock up, that helped a lot. I think I would get much better result with using a decent scope with a proper EQ mount.

Can't afford that though!

My "best" telescope cost me $400 and I've yet to reach its full potential (it's an AstroTech AT72ED refractor). However, that cost doesn't factor in the significant amount of support equipment that I already owned from my relatively long involvement in astrophotography.

As you probably know, good equatorial mounts cost a LOT of money and as yet I have not been able to convince myself that I should spend the thousands of dollars needed to get a really good mount. I've ended up building my own mounts, one a fairly heavy Alt-Azimuth pipe mount for short-exposure, high-resolution work (unguided), and a second barn-door type mount for manually driven/tracked wide-field photography with my Nikon DSLR. In fact, I've never finished all of the work that I need to do on either of those mounts so I better get busy before the observing weather improves later this spring.

 

[mtbdudex]

Captured these 3 heavenly objects just as the sun was setting, strikingly beautiful
Feb 26, 2012 Venus, Jupiter, and the crescent Moon.
These are all handheld with the DSLR Canon T1i and 15-85mm lens.

85mm sorta close up, to show them with "proper" exposure

widefield 15mm exposed to show the snow in foreground, moon gets blown out here

widefield 15mm exposed to show the crescent Moon without as much overexposure, still trying to capture the late blue/orange evening sky

 

[arogge]

Here's a recent Moon image of mine, and the Moon-Venus-Jupiter apparition from February.

 

[mtbdudex]

Clear skies last night, so tried to capture the Moon-Jupiter-Venus conjunction at dusk with our home in the foreground

DSLR Canon T1i and 15-85mm lens at various zoom/exposure, minimal PP done.

This is from the night before

 

[fpnc]

Fools' Day Moon on Flickr you can read additional details about this picture and view a larger image.

Taken with a Sony NEX-5N camera and an Astro-Tech AT72ED telescope (ISO 100, 1/25 second, prime focus + 2X barlow or approximately 860mm effective focal length at f/12).

 

[r.j.s]

Not a full moon, but last night's moon:


The moon by robstrain, on Flickr

 

[fpnc]

Mare Crisium (the "Sea of Crises") on Flickr you can view a larger image and read additional details on the photo.

Taken with my AT72ED telescope (2.8" f/6 refractor) and a Sony NEX-5N camera.

 

[fpnc]

No "Super Moon" shots (yet)? Okay, so here's my contribution:


Super Moon -- May 5, 2012

 

[Hisdem]

Nikon D7000, 55-300mm VR @ 300mm, 1/2000, ISO 100.