Moon 22/02/18

[csnewton2701]

Decided to take some photos of the moon seen as my Telescope out, the skies are clear and doing a few bits to help Mike (Radiostationx) out.


It wasn't a great moon as not much on show and large areas of flatter ground than craters.

Moon by Christopher Newton, on Flickr

Moon(2) by Christopher Newton, on Flickr


Chris

[kevmul]

Great couple of pics! Really interesting.

Kev

[csnewton2701]

Thanks Kev, it was a pain to focus on.

Chris

[jetdragon]

The moon is a great subject the further you are away from full as you get the impact of shadows on the mountain ranges and craters. Sometimes you will get a better result photographing in twilight too as there is not so much glare. Be careful not to over magnify as this is where some of the focusing difficulties manifest themselves.

These were taken with a compact digital held to the eyepiece of a 3" refractor.












and finally from May 2014 - lunar occultation of Saturn




Also interesting is the number of other common interests we aircraft spotters share

JD

[csnewton2701]

I used to use that method but thought I'd go for a camera adapter mounted to the eye piece to try and reduce shake. First time I've tried it with that scope so some practice definitely needed. I will try and take some at twilight Yes it is interesting, we must be like minded.


Chris

[jetdragon]

The adapter should definitely give better results than the old camera to the eyepiece method. Magnification could be the key, especially if the atmospherics are a bit dodgy. What kind of scope do you have? If it's a close tubed refractor it will be worth leaving it outside for an hour or so before attempting photography to equalise the temperatures inside & outside the scope.

Having said that for every decent shot I've got I will have discarded 30 odd

cheers

JD

[csnewton2701]

It was a bit cloudy last night its a bushnel 8inch Dobsonian.

Chris

[woody66]

a few from me.










The last one is Liverpool's water front(where Liverpool 2 is roughly) taken from New Brighton.

Colin

[jetdragon]

Nice work Colin

[woody66]

Thank you jetdragon.

[radiostationx]

Some from april 2013 very soon after taking delivery of my 8 inch telescope, I just had to try it out !

A half moon 221,000 miles distant.




19/4/2013 Nikon D40 manual mode 1/640 sec iso 800. (1200mm focal length aprox)


Now with 2x magnification barlow lens added 2400mm aprox focal length.
It is quite difficult at this magnification as the moon appears to be constantly moving in the viewfinder due to rotation of the earth and also moon orbit, keeping an airliner in the viewfinder is a different story, that is much more difficult..by a factor of 20 I would say.




19/4/2013 Nikon D40 manual mode 1/320 sec iso 800.




19/4/2013 Nikon D40 manual mode 1/320 sec iso 800.



Note the opposite half is covered on JDs images, Nice set too Colin that one at New Brighton is just great !


Thanks for looking.
Mike.

[csnewton2701]

I like the moody shots Colin.

Love the craters Mike, some sharp images there.


Chris

[jetdragon]

Cracking shots Mike. Same half though - my moon is upside down compared to yours

[radiostationx]

Messing about with star trails tonight in my back garden using a cable release attached to one of my Nikons.
Didnt stay out,far too cold.. just locked the shutter open, went inside for a while and came back to close it.
This is fun to try out and experiment with.
This time I kept the North Star in the centre ish of the frame..hard to see in the dark !



Sturdy Manfrotto 055 tripod, Nikon D5100 All Manual exp mode and all manual focus mode, shutter speed : bulb,Lens: Sigma 10-20mm AF zoom set at @ 10mm MF/best guess focus setting. 2 exposures stacked (exp 1)1487sec/25mins f11 iso100 & (exp 2) 1829sec/30mins f11 iso100

[jetdragon]

A good way to capture meteor showers too Mike