[ppuga]

What do you think guys?

Shot in RAW using a Canon S70, Mode: Tv, 1/250, F.5.3, ISO 50. Actually this is a Crop of the full image. You can see the full image in my galleries.

I choose to frame it with the tree brench, because I dont have a tele converter for the S70.




Cheers! :wink:

[Matty]

thats pretty cool, i like that....

[ppuga]

Thanks!

[Steep]

Aye, it makes the moon shot much more interesting!

[ppuga]

Yes it does. THANKS STEEP!

[Aeryk01]

I think the tree/leaves definitely add to the photo. Otherwise you'd wind up with a big white moon on black sky which can be quite boring unless you have a close up shot showing lunar surface detail. It has been suggested by myself & others, that when shooting a full moon, you try & nab a cityscape or some cool landmark at twilight when the moon is at it's largest. There's nothing cooler than a full moon rise over a major metropolis.

With any luck, weather permitting, I'll be posting some planetary shots of Jupiter & Saturn tomorrow. The sky is clear enough that I should be able to snap some shots & stack 'em up to get more resolution & detail.

Very nice capture.

Eric

[ppuga]

Great! I will try to get a full moon with some cityscape next time! Always learning!

Thanks ERIC. And good luck with that jupiter and saturn shots!

[Steep]

Originally Posted by Aeryk01

With any luck, weather permitting, I'll be posting some planetary shots of Jupiter & Saturn tomorrow. The sky is clear enough that I should be able to snap some shots & stack 'em up to get more resolution & detail.

Very nice capture.

Eric

I'd be interested to hear your technical details on those Aeryk01, I have a cheap scope that just lets me make out Saturns rings, it's not motorised so I doubt it would be any good for astrophotography.

[ppuga]

That could be intresting!

[Aeryk01]

If I may ask, Steep...what scope do you have?...

It clouded over early last night, so I didn't get any shots, but I'll be more than happy to go over my technique for doing so.

If you have a DSLR, just nab a T-ring from ANY photo store, and a tele-extender($30USD) which couples with it and slide it into your focuser... if using a refractor telescope, remove the diagonal. Then what you basically do is practice on the moon ALOT. Using the moon lets you perfect your focusing technique, which for me wasn't hard at all, AND you can take single frame shots due to it's brightness. For planets, you really don't need a mount that tracks. Granted, it helps, but you can do some Jovian (Jupiter) system shots without a tracking mount. All you do is shoot a 15-20sec video in raw FITS mode. Then you go herehttp://registax.astronomy.net/ and download the REGISTAX software. What this program does is takes your FITS file and breaks it down into individual frames. Let's say you have your camera set at shooting 15fps in video mode. If you shoot a 20 sec. video, you wind up with about 300 frames. From here, you get to select each frame you want to use to "stack" the images onto one another, thereby increasing the detail you see in the finished image. Of course, you get to play with the histogram & all that cool stuff too, but essentially, thats all there is to it. Many folks, including myself, also just use a modified webcam for the moon and planets, which is cost effective, but you need a laptop to take it out into the field.

Try some basic images of the moon, you'll be surprised at some of the results you get.

Eric