anybody ever take pics of the moon before? Reply #30 – March 13, 2008, 11:20:23 AM Awesome picturesI 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: : Quote Selected
anybody ever take pics of the moon before? Reply #31 – March 13, 2008, 11:43:39 AM Quote from: cougarcragar;208907The 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.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. Quote Selected
anybody ever take pics of the moon before? Reply #32 – March 17, 2008, 07:31:54 PM 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.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. Quote Selected
anybody ever take pics of the moon before? Reply #33 – March 17, 2008, 08:11:53 PM I saw the moon dogs too - in fact for a while there was a very clear ring around the moon. [derail]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:[/derail]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 Quote Selected
anybody ever take pics of the moon before? Reply #34 – March 17, 2008, 08:41:01 PM kick ass pics, old raven.. that is also known as "the eye of god" Quote Selected
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