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We finally have clear skies after about a weeks worth of rain. I'm sure some can relate and then some in the NE or elsewhere. Anyway, I was able to get out and shoot the moon tonight and it will be full on the 17th. Hope for clear skies!

If any body has any moon shots, please feel free to post them here and with exif preferably. :)

Both shot with UZI and Tcon17. 1st shot resting on a tripod. The 2nd shot was from last month but handheld resting against a tree.



1/400s f/5.6 at 70.0mm iso100



1/200s f/4.5 at 70.0mm iso100

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Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

 
Drummer said:
We finally have clear skies after about a weeks worth of rain. I'm
sure some can relate and then some in the NE or elsewhere. Anyway,
I was able to get out and shoot the moon tonight and it will be
full on the 17th. Hope for clear skies!
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I know what ya mean... Although, we got little rain compared to the coast...
Drummer said:
If any body has any moon shots, please feel free to post them here
and with exif preferably. :)

Both shot with UZI and Tcon17. 1st shot resting on a tripod. The
2nd shot was from last month but handheld resting against a tree.



1/400s f/5.6 at 70.0mm iso100



1/200s f/4.5 at 70.0mm iso100
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Shot with



in 3mpEz mode. Which is 19.1x native optical zoom(no DZ)... So the formula for that FullBlowed Floozooka configuration would be as follows:

19.1x = 35 x 19.1 = 668.5mm(nekid) x 1.9(c210} = 1279.15mm x 1.5(Zykkor) = 1905.225mm x 1.7(B300) = 3238.8825mm

on a tripod... Manually focused (what a dream), in 'A' @ F/5.6 & 1/100th, Manually WhiteBalanced, registered from the moon itself...

FWIW: Lookin' through the EVF & dead still on the tripod, @ that magnification, it was easy to see it move across the frame... I probably should've left the 'oIS' on.. Maybe it would've compensated for the moons movement?? ;-} It's soft but it's huge @ original size with little increase in that softness from this downsized version... I probably should've played with the 'Highlight/Shadow adj im Elements.. IV..
Drummer said:
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Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

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[email protected] http://www.pbase.com/rrawzz ****
 
but the camera mount was a bit crude.

This is two shots stitched together because it wouldn't fit. The lower 2/3 is one frame and the rest added with Autostitch. Oly 5060 with 1100mm Maksutov and 20mm Nikon microscope eyepiece. Picture has been reduced about 80%. I think Autostitch couyld do an interesting job on a collection of shots taken over a whole lunar month. So there is some food for thought....

 
welll here is my moon shot .. i dont think it turned out as good as it should have ..but it was the best i could get ..



Camera model: C740UZ
Date/Time: 2005:10:16 01:12:09
Resolution: 800 x 600
Flash used: No
Focal length: 63.0mm
Digital Zoom: 3.000x
Exposure time: 0.0050 s (1/200)
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO equiv.: 100
Whitebalance: Manual
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing

Marn

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So Vadts Der To Shoot :)
 
The uzi and Tcon combination eh ? Even with just 2 MP, that Uzi is incredible for the amount of detail it appears to record. One could be forgiven for thinking these pictures were taken through a telescope!

Good luck for the 17th. Hope you get clear skies. Looking forward to the results!

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AH

Digital: Olympus C-8080 WZ, Olympus C-750 UZ

Film: Olympus OM-10 & Olympus Trip-35

 
If you got any closer you'd be walking on the moon. Nice one Ross.

Thanks!
David
 
I'll just reply to both here. Nice shot Mickey. I know one thing I learned is the moon can move across the frame and I try to shoot no slower than 1/200th - 1/250th. But I aint telling you nothing. :)

The Eclipse series is excellent. Was that taken during last years eclipse and do you have a link to a larger version. I'd like to see that. Not sure if you posted this before or not but it sure looks good.

David

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Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

 
Looks like your about to land on the moon! Man that is even closer yet and nice job putting it together. So you gonna try the thing with Autostich? Not exactly sure what you are thinking about.

Thanks for the shot!
David
 
Hi Marn. Not bad, not bad. I see you tried DZ and I haven't much success with that. One thing I do is set the camera to black and white. Then in manual mode I start at f5.6 and shutter at 1/200th, check the results, and if the moon is blown I start increasing the shutter till it comes out right.

In PP I'll crop to 600 x 600, adjust levels and contrast to my liking and sharpen.

Thanks for the shot and hope to see you out tonight! :)

David
Marn said:
welll here is my moon shot .. i dont think it turned out as good as
it should have ..but it was the best i could get ..



Camera model: C740UZ
Date/Time: 2005:10:16 01:12:09
Resolution: 800 x 600
Flash used: No
Focal length: 63.0mm
Digital Zoom: 3.000x
Exposure time: 0.0050 s (1/200)
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO equiv.: 100
Whitebalance: Manual
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing

Marn

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So Vadts Der To Shoot :)
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I guess it's not the amount of pixels as it is the quality of the glass. Now if I only had a telescope I could get one like Ross or Nick.

Thanks for looking and the wish of luck Abid!

David
photophile said:
The uzi and Tcon combination eh ? Even with just 2 MP, that Uzi is
incredible for the amount of detail it appears to record. One could
be forgiven for thinking these pictures were taken through a
telescope!

Good luck for the 17th. Hope you get clear skies. Looking forward
to the results!

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AH

Digital: Olympus C-8080 WZ, Olympus C-750 UZ

Film: Olympus OM-10 & Olympus Trip-35

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Why you opted for the Ezi over the Uzi??? ;-}
Drummer said:
I'll just reply to both here. Nice shot Mickey. I know one thing I
learned is the moon can move across the frame and I try to shoot no
slower than 1/200th - 1/250th. But I aint telling you nothing. :)

The Eclipse series is excellent. Was that taken during last years
eclipse and do you have a link to a larger version. I'd like to see
that. Not sure if you posted this before or not but it sure looks
good.

David

--
Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

Click to expand...
--



[email protected] http://www.pbase.com/rrawzz ****
 
Drummer said:
So you gonna try the thing
with Autostich? Not exactly sure what you are thinking about.
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The reason why the full moon shots are pretty dull is that the moon is lit from the sun, which is directly behind you, hence the flat lighting.

With a half moon like that shown, the sun is off to one side and from Earth you can see the long shadows of sunset at the terminator, hence more contrasty lighting. I didn't even bother to show the edge of the moon at the equator, there isn't much to see.

If you take a series of shots, spaced over the lunar month, you get the contrasty terminator at different points on the moon's surface, hence it may be possible to have a cobbled-up whole moon with lots of contasty mountains and craters. I've no idea if this will really work!

What I DO know is that, although the two pictures I took were only seconds apart, there was no way I could put them togther as a straight cut 'n' shut job and hide the join. Autostitch saved the day.
 
Drummer said:
I guess it's not the amount of pixels as it is the quality of the
glass. Now if I only had a telescope I could get one like Ross or
Nick.
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On that point, some enlightening lunar shots were done by Greylady on this forum, a year or so ago. You may be able to trawl them up. She used a 5050, I think, shooting through binoculars. This was a revelation. The astro-freaks used to turn up their noses at afocal projection but the world has changed. Her shots were great and the first afocal projection shots I had ever seen.

It was then that I realised that the TCON attachments were nothing more than low power, very low power, Galilean telescopes.

We all learn.
 
Yes it was taken Oct. 27, 2004. I have such a discombobulated mess with photos scattered between 4 computers and those burned to CD, I will have to search for the originals. I was doubtful that i would even get an opportunity to shoot the Eclipse as it was really cloudy. These were taken through wispy clouds and probably account for the different hues. Since the conditions and the trek across the sky was constantly changing, I just put it in P, used spot focus, and let Olympus figure out what settings to use.

When I locate the originals ( gotta organize this mess! ), I will zip and forward them to you.
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Regards,
W_H

 
thanks ..

i tried a few different settings .. and that one seemed to be the best setting .. and i didnt do anything as far as sharpening or anything in PS .. i just resized it .. I also tried a shot in sepia tone but that was on a diff setting .. i like sepia on this camera .. the tones really come out nice .. gonna have to try the B&W and sepia tonight ..
thanks again ..

see ya under the moon ..

Marn

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So Vadts Der To Shoot :)
 
The EZI was chosen because the black finish blended well with the night. When doing covert work in dark, I like to run in stealth mode. ROFLMAO

Seriously... I just grabbed the most convenient one when I finally realized that there were breaks in the cloud cover. And, to be honest IMO, The EZi is just a few Mpxls shy ( while using the same lens ) of the UZI and one would be hard pressed to tell which camera took which photo in most situations.

Here is a shot ( no P S-ing ) taken with the EZI also in P mode under grey overcast skies that help show the built in capabilities of the 1½ Mpxl wonder. Also, I have read somewhere that if the same size sensor is used with less Mpxls trying to populate it, the image would not suffer as much. This was written ( if I recall correctly ) during a discussion on how 1 Mpxl shots from the moon were so amazing. Of course we are talking about a much more expensive rig.



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W_H

 
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