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Title: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 25 February 2012, 18:19

Now I'm no expert photographer, but I thought these were pretty good, considering that the object is 238857 miles away and taken with my iPhone!

(http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc81/alexmorris60/IMG_0363.jpg)

(http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc81/alexmorris60/IMG_0365.jpg)

I took them through my Meade 14" telescope.

Going to try and get some of Jupiter and Saturn which are also out tonight.

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: murraymint on 25 February 2012, 18:21

 :cool:

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 25 February 2012, 19:10

(http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc81/alexmorris60/IMG_03741.jpg)

I tried to get one at night, however its to saturated.
Turned of HDR.

Need a real camera!

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: moe on 25 February 2012, 19:34

They're fantastic pics fella, well done I really enjoyed looking at these

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 25 February 2012, 20:00

Thanks :)

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: DubFan on 27 February 2012, 10:34

How good is the telescope?

A friend of mine did the same, iPhone to telescope:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6808710155_24f000f9a7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickjonesmedia/6808710155/)
2nd February. A wander around Wokingham and breakfast in Costa. A drive to mums and Shepherd's Pie for dinner. Messed with Pete's telescope and shot this. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickjonesmedia/6808710155/) by NickJonesMedia (http://www.flickr.com/people/nickjonesmedia/), on Flickr

And this is what my brother shot with his Canon 7D and an EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM  which he borrowed:
(http://photos.slowducks.org/var/resizes/family/lonaug11/IMG_5206.jpg?m=1325638450)

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 27 February 2012, 12:58

Its a 12" Meade telescope.
Pretty good, but im trying to sort the optics out as its a bit out of focus :(

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: stealthwolf on 27 February 2012, 22:44

Quote from: AlexMozza on 25 February 2012, 18:19

I took them through my Meade 14" telescope.

Jesus Christ! Just looked up the cost of them!

I was gonna buy a spotting scope to use with my compact camera so I could digiscope but the cost of decent glass means I might was well buy a dSLR with a super-duper-telephoto lens. Would be cheaper!

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 27 February 2012, 22:53

Yeah, Deffo not a cheap hobby!, However I want a better camera to attach to it!

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: DubFan on 28 February 2012, 21:55

Take a look at the two shots I posted, one taken with iPhone and a telescope, the other with a Canon 7D and a Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM worth £1500 ish.

That's kinda what you need to take these shots, but you couldn't use the Canon combo for just 'scoping the sky.

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 28 February 2012, 22:21

Im trying to ave for a good Digital SLR as mine came with lots of attachments.
All you need is a nice long exposure and its amazing what you can see!

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: bobotheclown on 03 March 2012, 20:30

Taking pictures of the moon was a surprise in terms of the settings required on the camera. You need to set it to full manual and have it setup for sunny f16 rule

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_16_rule

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: dTEA on 06 March 2012, 20:31

All im gonna say is wow for the iphone and telescope shot!  :cool:  Mental...the clarity of that hooked up to a SLR would be proper niiice

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: Guy on 13 March 2012, 09:56

i have had problems getting my t-mount and camera to hook up properly... cannot for the life of me get the focus correct... it is so frustrating

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5286/5376547076_89b52e748e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyfrankland/5376547076/)
full moon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyfrankland/5376547076/) by Guy Frankland (http://www.flickr.com/people/guyfrankland/), on Flickr

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5094/5547391547_111a9b800f.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyfrankland/5547391547/)
Full Moon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyfrankland/5547391547/) by Guy Frankland (http://www.flickr.com/people/guyfrankland/), on Flickr

been looking at all sorts like Jupiters moons and Andromeda and have got nothing to show for it  :angry:

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: JMallows on 06 April 2012, 17:27

i took some years with a 12inch Newtonian, and a few different cameras. The moon is pretty easy to shoot quite well, but Saturn was always a pain to get anything decent...

Anyway, moon:

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jmallows/DSCF7086.jpg)
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jmallows/DSC05694.jpg)
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jmallows/DSC05721.jpg)
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jmallows/b2d6419d.jpg)

Saturn:

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jmallows/3c7dcc1e.jpg)

And this is the telescope, including Venus and the Moon in the background:

(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/jmallows/8e78ec88.jpg)

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: shepgti on 06 April 2012, 21:44

Great shot of Saturn bud.  :wink:

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: warnesey333 on 09 April 2012, 21:19

This was taken at about 10pm at Snetterton Race Circuit...looks more like the Sun!

I could do with editing out the stray cloud and fencing.


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6914154232_b7c433a310_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43864455@N08/6914154232/)
Racing - Snetterton-89 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43864455@N08/6914154232/) by warnesey333 (http://www.flickr.com/people/43864455@N08/), on Flickr

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: JMallows on 10 April 2012, 16:13

Quote from: shepgti on 06 April 2012, 21:44

Great shot of Saturn bud.  :wink:

Thanks :)

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: Mr GTD on 10 April 2012, 16:19

Yeah, great moon and saturn pics, very nice!

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: AlexMozza on 14 April 2012, 20:57

(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/538132_10151431297320554_636085553_23328620_94406066_n.jpg)

This was my attempt at saturn. Still need to sort out the correlation.

Title: Re: The Moon
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 15 April 2012, 13:48

that picture of saturn is awsome