Harvest Moon tonight. XTi

Charles L Sefcek · Oct 6, 2006

Bigma lens on a tripod with mirror lockup remote shutter. Converted with Silkypro and finished off with PSP10

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Roger Schliefert · Oct 6, 2006

Cool shot Chuck. I'm planning on shooting it tomorrow night so I can rent a lens here http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/photoprograms.htm

I hope the sky is clear like yours was.

Roger

ledittmar · Oct 6, 2006

Mine

ledittmar · Oct 6, 2006

mine was shot with a 500mm kalimar,cheapo lens, $100.00

ledittmar · Oct 6, 2006

sharpend (same picture as above).

Greg Henry · Oct 6, 2006

My gear isn't really set up for moon shots but considering this was taken with an "el-cheapo" Quantaray brand 500mm Mirror lens, this I guess 'aint so bad...

Dan Finnerty · Oct 6, 2006

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DavidPuanani · Oct 7, 2006

400d, sigma 70-300 DG APO at 300mm, f11, 1/200, ISO100. One of these days I will buy a tripod

Darrel LaBossiere · Oct 7, 2006

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kiwi2 · Oct 7, 2006

It was rather windy tonight and the atmosphere was a bit turbulent, but a full moon at perigee was too tempting to pass on.

Resized by 50% Shot with 350D and a 1200mm f/8 refractor

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kiwi2 · Oct 7, 2006

Nice processing job.

It's always interesting to see how different many people's moon photos look, even with similar gear, because of the processing.

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hugbunny · Oct 7, 2006

Good one above, like the craters on the bottom and the fact it is mirror image because of New Zealand viewing the moon from a different angle?
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Mosser · Oct 7, 2006

Wow, that is an amazing shot of the moon, one of the best i have seen,

I assume your refractor is a telescope ?, if so, what make and model ?, and how do you attach a 350D to a telescope ?, did you use a motor drive at all ?

I'm really interested in getting my 350D to a telescope, but dont really know where to start, so any pointers would be helpful

kiwi2 · Oct 7, 2006

hugbunny said:
Good one above, like the craters on the bottom and the fact it is
mirror image because of New Zealand viewing the moon from a
different angle?

Kind of. We see it upside-down compared to the northern hemisphere, but I flipped the image 180 degrees because I think it looks better and it also avoids all the "why is your moon upside-down" questions. lol...

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kiwi2 · Oct 7, 2006

Mosser said:
Wow, that is an amazing shot of the moon, one of the best i have seen,

Thanks, but looking at it again now, I think it wasn't one of my best postprocessing jobs.

Mosser said:
I assume your refractor is a telescope ?, if so, what make and
model ?, and how do you attach a 350D to a telescope ?, did you use
a motor drive at all ?

Yes, it is a telescope like this...

http://www.telescope.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=121897&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=4&iSubCat=13&iProductID=121897

..although I didn't have the tracking activated tonight as the atmosphere was a bit turbulent anyhow. (so the finest detail would never reveal itself anyway)

I just needed a T-ring in order to mount the camera to the scope.

Mosser said:
I'm really interested in getting my 350D to a telescope, but dont
really know where to start, so any pointers would be helpful

Take your time and do plenty of reading and homework first. Sites like this have plenty of good information.. http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/astro/index-e.html

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kristian1 · Oct 7, 2006

this is great details for full moon , do you have some examples of half moon , then more details is visible...

any chanse for 100% crops to see the detail it can resolve , it would e interesting to see how it compares to Romys sigmamoster moon...

thanks
all best
kristian

kiwi2 said:
It was rather windy tonight and the atmosphere was a bit turbulent,
but a full moon at perigee was too tempting to pass on.

Resized by 50% Shot with 350D and a 1200mm f/8 refractor

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hugbunny · Oct 7, 2006

That big crater - that must have made a terrific noise when that landed. Must have felt the shockwave on the earth I would think. Would it have been heard? Considering sound doesn't travel through space but the shockwave must have. Can you get a picture of the flag to dispel the capricorn myth once and for all with that telescope?? hehe.
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Ed Richer · Oct 7, 2006

Mine taken two days ago with 350D, Mead ETX-90 RA reflector (1250mm, f/14).

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kiwi2 · Oct 7, 2006

kristian1 said:
this is great details for full moon , do you have some examples of
half moon , then more details is visible...

any chanse for 100% crops to see the detail it can resolve , it
would e interesting to see how it compares to Romys sigmamoster
moon...

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David Hearn · Oct 7, 2006

I was trying it out this evening, just a 400D + cheap Kenko 1.5x extender + 70-200mm f/4 L, handheld @ f/4 1/1000, ISO 200.

Quite pleased with it considering it was handheld.

Harvest Moon tonight. XTi

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