I just snapped off a couple tonight.... kinda cool...:hick:
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That's kinda cool, what did you take them with? Zoom lens?
took them with my 8.1 cybershot digi cam.... ;)
There will be a Lunar Eclipse on the Wednesday night, if you want to practice your moon shot skills; that will be a unique event to record.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23184927/
Brent
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I have taken pics of a moon before but that moon wasn't celestial :shakeass: :D
I was seeing the moon with a little telescope like 4 or 5 minutes ago. Nice pictures sir.
I took these through my telescope. The first one is false color, and I can't remember what I did to the camera to make it do that.
Cool pics! I only have a pic I call "moonshadow"
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haha, thats what I used too, my dads telescope I bought him for X-mas...
Nice shots....
What size lens are you guys using. I have an 8.1 cannon slr I can't get as much detail as yours.
Those are all pretty cool shots. Nice work!
Here you go. I took this one at about 10:30 at my in laws a few months ago. Yes, that's the moon behind the trees, and those are stars in the sky. It's a 30 sec. exp., so the clouds have a motion blur.
Cougardoc, are you using the Rebel Xt? That's the same one I use (8.1) with the stock 18-55mm EF-S.
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I have the same camera, are you using the auto setting or manual?
I usually use the auto setting and mostly take pics of cars:burnout: :D
It depends. Long exposure shots can only be done in manual mode, and you have to play with ISO and EXP settings to get it right, but for day to day pictures I use the Auto setting. The problem is the thing is flash happy in auto mode, so if I'm trying to capture true colour, I use manual.
Oh, and a tripod is an awesome thing.
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I noticed that also. I haven't needed to use the manual settings to much but I have been wanting to.
Well, it's digital, so there's no time like the present. ;) It's not like you have to worry about wasting film like the 35mm days (which I still have a soft spot for, and plan to own a Minolta Maxxum series 35mm SLR).
If you're just starting, look up your controls in the manual and start tinkering. As a guide, remember that slowing your shutter speed (higher fraction/number) gives you more light and a brighter picture but allows for more and more blur (tripod and no wind if you're taking pictures of trees). Increasing the ISO rating will also give you more light and brighter pictures, but if you get too high you will have grainy images. And the one big rule that 99% of people dismiss is the light source rule. Keep the sun at your back whenever possible. That goes for any light source. Window, light bulb, the reflection from your uncles bald head, the flames of hell emitting from your mother-in-law's eyes.
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Anyway, play around. It doesn't cost anything but a few minutes of charging and you will learn a lot. It probably wouldn't hurt to switch the auto focus off and play with that either.
The on I used before this one is the Minolta Maxxima 35mm I still have it, great 35mm. I am not exactly new to photo. but no where near experienced but I will start playing again as soon as it gets warmer:D
Nice! This is my first D-SLR, but I have been through two Minolta XG-1's and an XG-9 35mm SLR. I got some of my most vivid colours from film. There's just something more honest looking about solid media.
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Here's a pic I took tonight of the eclipse @ about 2/3 moon:
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I just took a few of the lunar eclipse - some while the moon was half covered and some while it was just about completely covered. The pics are a bit blurry because I can't figure out how to make the camera focus manually and can't figure out how to manually set shutter speed. Pics taken with a Fuji S3100 at 10X zoom (6X optical plus 4X digital), cam mounted on a cheap 6" tripod and pointing almost straight up:
Funny, I'm using a Fuji S7000 6x optical, 3.2x digital on a tripod :D
Here's a full shadow shot:
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e360/Domeskull/fullshadowmoon.jpg)
Thanks guys, very cool.
TED
I took this one last nite with my Canon EOS 20D DSLR 300mm zoom lens with a tripod. You have to be careful, any exposure over a few seconds causes motion blur. The moon moves quite quickly across the sky actually.
(http://www.redspar.com/moon/moon2.jpg)
Very nice, Red Spar! Of course the guy with the D series comes in and shows up us Xt guys. Some things never change. ;)
I tried last night without taking my own advice and held the camera on our deck railing. The 55mm zoom didn't do much, and with 2 sec. exposure and full zoom just the blood pumping through my hands probably blurred it all to hell. I'll have to see how it turned out when I get home, but I know for a fact it won't compete with a 300mm.
I took this shot this evening.
Be aware that it was taken through a reflector telescope, so the image is flipped and/or mirrored.
While I corrected some contrast issues in Photoshop, I did not correct the image for the moon's true orientation.
Now that is a sweet shot. How do you take photos through the telescope?
The telescope is a Bushnell reflector with a 3" primary mirror. I'm using my five-year-old Canon S230 camera.
I'm too cheap to buy a camera mount for it, so I try to wing it.
That's one of the better shots out of 20 or so.
I dropped the exposure as much as possible, enabled macro mode, hit 2.0x manual zoom, and took as many shots as possible.
It's literally holding the lens up to the eyepiece on the telescope. The most challenging part is to hold everything steady.
While the slightest bump will knock the scope out of its intended view, a simple heartbeat can nudge the camera and make the shot blurry.
It's even more frustrating when you spend too much time getting the camera aligned and the object moves out of the range. The moon, for example, moves very quickly, especially with a 20mm eyepiece and a 3.5x Barlow lens.
In short, I need a better telescope and a better camera with a mount.
wow that's an amazing shot. all your preperation and determination, and re-takes paid off well!
VERY COOL! nice shot! I gotta try and get some more now...
Man you can even see the meteor/asteriod, still in the bottom of some of the craters..
Awesome pictures
I tried taking some pics of a lunar with my 6.1mp Kodak DX7630... Pics did not turn out well... (almost not at all, lol.)
This was the best of like 30 pics, Very sad... :hick: :
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OK - so I was on the right track when I tried to do it, but it was effing cold and I just could
not get things aligned without either bumping the telescope or in time before the moon moved.
I got some photos of a crazy Moon dog we had last night. (and wouldn't you know it, there's a hell of a wind today. Gusts up to 90kph.) I might try to clean these up a bit later. I didn't get a great one. It was pretty cold here and I was standing on the deck in a t-shirt and sock feet (yeah, I had pants on too, before you freaks ask). One is at 30 seconds and the other is a 6 with 1600 iso and F5.4 aperture. The dog was so big I couldn't get the whole thing into frame. I need something smaller than 18mm bad. And bigger than 55, for that matter.
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Hey, anyone ever try this one? You take an old SLR (I've never tried this with my digital) and turn the lens backwards up to the seating face. Yes, remove the lens and spin it around. If you're steady enough, you can pull off some super close macro shots. Coser than most macro's I've seen. I once took a photo of an old penny and you could see every scratch like a canyon.
I saw the moon dogs too - in fact for a while there was a very clear ring around the moon.
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The wind is bad, Oldraven, but imagine had that storm actually hit us. We definitely dodged a bullet. Cindy Day said that it is just like a hurricane, and even has an eye feature. The pressure at the center of the low is lower than it was at the eye of Juan. She showed a satellite photo of it and it looks exactly like a hurricane. Kind of makes this cold air, which is responsible for pushing the storm out to sea, worth it. Newfoundland is getting 50+ centimeters with 120 km/hr winds out of it. Sucks to be Thundergrowl :hick:
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I found the exposure settings on my digital camera so once it warms up a bit outside I'll try a bit of experimenting. I wish we had another lunar eclipse to take pics of :D
kick ass pics, old raven.. that is also known as "the eye of god"