Moon pics

[adamjt7]

As we have a good full moon at the moment i deciced to post a pic before the cloud moves in.

Edited by adamjt7 on Tuesday 19th February 21:32

[jagdpanther]

adamjt7 said:

As we have a good full moon at the moment i deciced to post a pic before the cloud moves in.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc232/adamjt7/m...

Lucky you...just attached the telephoto lens onto the 10D ready to snap away and was greated with nothing more than fog

[GravelBen]

Snapped a couple last night which I'll post sometime if I remember - what do you usually do with white balance for moon shots? I was amazed by how much it changed the colour of it.

[DIW35]

It's been cloudy tonight, and I went out for a meal last night, but here's one I shot two nights ago.



As Gravelben mentioned, I too have been surprised at the amount of 'colour' in the images.

[Zipster]

DIW, can I get some technical information from you on this? What kind of shutter speed are you using? I've tried photographing the moon, but the end result always is kinda blurry due to a long exposure, and of course the moon is moving.
Or is it the earth that's moving? I forget!

[Slinky]

Zipster said:

DIW, can I get some technical information from you on this? What kind of shutter speed are you using? I've tried photographing the moon, but the end result always is kinda blurry due to a long exposure, and of course the moon is moving.
Or is it the earth that's moving? I forget!

If the exif is preserved correctly, download the shot, right click and select proporties and all should be revealed (shot on an EOS 40D at 1/60 on ISO-100, not sure on the aperture as it's listed as 0!)

slinky

[jagdpanther]

Shutter Speed (Exposure Time) = 1/64 second

According to the exif data

[adamjt7]

The settings and camera used pentax k100d tamron 70-300.camera setting were 300mm f11 iso 200 and 1/180 shutter.

[rhubarb]

BTW there's a full lunar eclipse on the 21st Feb. I think it'll hit early in the morning but might be worth waiting up for. Apparently the next full lunar eclipse will be in 2010

[DIW35]

The reason the aperture is showing as 0 is because I am using an old Tamron lens that needs to be fitted to the 40D with an adapter. The lens itself is a mirror 500mm which is fixed at f/8.0. The adapter soaks up some of the available light, as does the 2x converter I was using. I think the equivalent f stop was somewhere in the region of f/13.

For anyone who is interested in taking shots of the moon, but aren't sure what settings to start with to put them in the ballpark for a correct exposure, try this link. http://www.shaystephens.com/moon_calc.php

It tells you what shutter speed to use for any given aperture and ISO, dependent on the phase of the moon.

HTH

Edited by DIW35 on Tuesday 19th February 22:49

[leightonjames]

moon eclipse is well worth waiting up for!

[jmorgan]

Great shot. Must try harder with mine. Get caught up with the scope. Last attempt with the camera and lens ended in overexposure.

Scope shot.




Edited to include pic

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 19th February 23:05

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 20th February 00:14

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 20th February 00:15

[DIW35]

I've tried through a scope, but haven't been able to eliminate problems with vibration that ends up in an unsharp image. Scope I had access to also suffers from chromatic aberration.

Love that series of the eclipse. Unfortunately I didn't own a DSLR when that last happened, and my little point and shoot just wasn't up to the task.

Edited by DIW35 on Tuesday 19th February 23:14

[jmorgan]

DIW35 said:

I've tried through a scope, but haven't been able to eliminate problems with vibration that ends up in an unsharp image. Scope I had access to also suffers from chromatic aberration.

Love that series of the eclipse. Unfortunately I didn't own a DSLR when that last happened, and my little point and shoot just wasn't up to the task.

Edited by DIW35 on Tuesday 19th February 23:14

Ah! My issues until recently. Bought a remote lead and used the shutter lockup function. I was surprised how much the shutter would shake the think until I thought about it.

So, I set the camera to the "bulb" option. Shutter lock up and give it a few seconds then take the shot. That is the result in my reply above.

[DIW35]

The only other way I could think of to avoid it was to take a leaf out of the old time photographer's book. Put the camera on bulb, with a piece of black card held in front of the telescope. Wait for everything to settle down, move the card to expose and then replace it.

[oldskool]

My best effort after a quick excursion outside tonight... Not brilliant but not too bad.



ISO 200, 1/200s, auto WB. The moon is not an entirely colourless rock, so after a bit of sharpening I like to increase the saturation a bit to enhance them.

Taken with this cheap scope at prime focal length

[jmorgan]

DIW35 said:

The only other way I could think of to avoid it was to take a leaf out of the old time photographer's book. Put the camera on bulb, with a piece of black card held in front of the telescope. Wait for everything to settle down, move the card to expose and then replace it.

No shutter lockup? It really threw me for a while until I twigged and read the camera manual. The pressing with the finger was bad enough.

Think my settings were 1/160 and iso 1600. If its digital, what is to lose apart from time

[oldskool]

jmorgan said:

DIW35 said:

The only other way I could think of to avoid it was to take a leaf out of the old time photographer's book. Put the camera on bulb, with a piece of black card held in front of the telescope. Wait for everything to settle down, move the card to expose and then replace it.

No shutter lockup? It really threw me for a while until I twigged and read the camera manual. The pressing with the finger was bad enough.

Think my settings were 1/160 and iso 1600. If its digital, what is to lose apart from time

Self timer is your friend.... 5 secs normally enough.

[jmorgan]

oldskool said:

Self timer is your friend.... 5 secs normally enough.

DOH!

Mind you, tried that and without lock up I still had the shakes when the shutter went. Not tried it to see if the shutter would lock up then take the shot?

[hawkaye]

1/1000 / f4.5 / iso100 / mirror lockup / Image Stabiliser off / manual focus / cable release or remote / sturdy tripod

^ that's my recommendations ^

Here's my most recent moon shot (21st jan 2008), taken with Canon 40D and Canon 100-400mm



sorry for the large version..

Edited by hawkaye on Wednesday 20th February 00:06