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A new moon shot
- Thread starter Lee Jay
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The picture looks pretty nice to me, the conditions looked like the seeing was actually fairly good. I'd hate to see what you'd call really poor conditions. What lens did you use? I assume this was using a tripod?
I had to shoot at ISO 1600 because the seeing was so poor that I'd get more than 10 pixels of blur in 1/30th of a second. When I looked with an eyepiece, it was like looking through a jet engine exhaust.
I wondered if that was the case because of the shutter speed you used. Here is a cropped snap I took tonight with my old Celestron C90 (1000mm f/11), with which I have never been really happy. I don't have the adapter yet for my Meade 4" scope. I had to apply a fair amount of sharpening afterwards.
Nice, sharp shot. And nice gear.This is the full, uncropped out of camera shot from my 5D. No processing other than sharpening and resizing from the LR defaults. Atmospheric conditions were horrible.
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Lee Jay
I can't compete with your shot. The Kenko x1.4 eats some sharpness from my 100-400mm but without it I can't reach the moon. Here is my moon tonight:
Thanks. Good shot.Nice, sharp shot. And nice gear.This is the full, uncropped out of camera shot from my 5D. No processing other than sharpening and resizing from the LR defaults. Atmospheric conditions were horrible.
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Lee Jay
I can't compete with your shot. The Kenko x1.4 eats some sharpness from my 100-400mm but without it I can't reach the moon. Here is my moon tonight:
A 100-400L is no slouch when shot at optimal settings. This is with a Kenko 1.4 and a Canon 1.4TC II on a T2i.
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Lee Jay
The picture had quite a bit of sharpening applied to it, and was the best I could obtain of many attempts. While the image would appear to be in focus in the view finder, reviewing on the LCD afterwards showed the lack of focus. I took many snaps on either side of the apparent focus point without success. This scope did take a fall once, and that probably did not help matters, but it never really has had a good image quality to it, even when new many years ago.
My 6D would only show a black screen on live view, so I couldn't attempt a more precise focus while zoomed on. I'm not sure why, unless live view only works with lenses that report their settings to the camera body. I haven't had time to review the manual to see if that was the expected behavior.
sailorboy2
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Very nice and love the find detail seen. Thanks for sharing your pleasing image.
Ken
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Tourlou
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Shot with an old LZOS 1000 f/10 MTO-11 in rather unstable athmospheric conditions. Not bad for what it is but I had to push the ISO and cut the exposure to reduce the blur caused by atmosphere movements.
Took this crop with my 6D and a Meade 2045 SCT (1000mm, f/10) at prime focus with a much more substantial tripod. It was pretty windy today, and some very high thin clouds were moving through. I figured out how to get live view working in M mode (had to adjust the shutter speed to see anything) and try and get the focus sharper. I've got an eyepiece projection adapter on the way to try some higher magnification shots.
I also shot the moon last night and like to share it with you. I use Nikon D800 and Tamron 70-300mm lens. I shot raw and processed it in LR5 with Silver Efex Pro plug-in. This is 100% crop image.
Huy
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Huy
This is the full, uncropped out of camera shot from my 5D. No processing other than sharpening and resizing from the LR defaults. Atmospheric conditions were horrible.
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Lee Jay
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Marx81
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