Photographing the moon

[LC2]

Around Midnight, the Full Moon in all it's glory

Full Moon 28 Sept 2015 by Tim White, on Flickr

Around 4am - The Blood Moon. This has had a little cropping and noise reduction (oh, and a plane removed!).
Either AF was struggling or the there was so little light that the blood moon shots have all come out a bit soft. ISO 3200 and a little NR isn't going to have helped either. I guess I need a lens faster than f/6.3 to get a really good shot when there is so little light available.

Blood Moon 28 Sept 2015 by Tim White, on Flickr

[essayer]

Struggled for ages last night taking a photo, came out blurry no matter what, tried manual focus, different aperture, dropping zoom slightly in case the lens was duff etc etc, even indoors with a tripod and remote shutter release

Forgot about the simple fact that the moon is moving and a 10" exposure isn't going to help matters at all

[V8Wagon]

I was a little late to the party as I had a lie in! I also struggled so I gave mine a liberal dose of PP so I don't feel left out

[eltawater]

I think it really was the utter lack of reflected light and a moving target which made it impossible to get a decent sharp shot.

Couldn't make it work at f2.8 @200mm on crop without scattering everything in noise, and manual focus was a PITA!

[LC2]

essayer said:

Struggled for ages last night taking a photo, came out blurry no matter what, tried manual focus, different aperture, dropping zoom slightly in case the lens was duff etc etc, even indoors with a tripod and remote shutter release

Forgot about the simple fact that the moon is moving and a 10" exposure isn't going to help matters at all

You need to use the rule of 500 (apparently) when doing astro photography if you want to avoid motion blur.
500/Length of lens in mm = Max shutter duration in seconds.

[Shaoxter]

Here's my efforts, I only have a 24-70 lens!
Couldn't autofocus during the eclipse, took a while to get the manual focus right.





Also made a time lapse for the second half!
https://youtu.be/NKP-VnjG5WY

[AndyT350]

LC2 said:

Around Midnight, the Full Moon in all it's glory

Around 4am - The Blood Moon. This has had a little cropping and noise reduction (oh, and a plane removed!).
Either AF was struggling or the there was so little light that the blood moon shots have all come out a bit soft. ISO 3200 and a little NR isn't going to have helped either. I guess I need a lens faster than f/6.3 to get a really good shot when there is so little light available.

I had a similar problem - its a lot more of a challenge that the normal moon... too long an exposure and it's blurry, to short and its dark/noisy.. this is the best I came up with

Lunar Eclipse Sept 2015.jpg by Andrew Dean, on Flickr

[LC2]

AndyT350 said:

I had a similar problem - its a lot more of a challenge that the normal moon... too long an exposure and it's blurry, to short and its dark/noisy.. this is the best I came up with

Lunar Eclipse Sept 2015.jpg by Andrew Dean, on Flickr

Good effort - Better than my Blood Moon imo.

[Dogsey]

My favourite from last night. 300mm on my 7D, no crop.

Blood Moon 3:52AM by Mike Gardiner, on Flickr

[HewManHeMan]

I totally missed the actual 'Blood Moon' on Monday morning, but I just caught the 'Kind of Red Moon' rising on Monday evening.

Anyone any good with Photoshop?

[LC2]

HewManHeMan said:

I totally missed the actual 'Blood Moon' on Monday morning, but I just caught the 'Kind of Red Moon' rising on Monday evening.

Anyone any good with Photoshop?

No, not really.

[HewManHeMan]

LC2 said:

HewManHeMan said:

I totally missed the actual 'Blood Moon' on Monday morning, but I just caught the 'Kind of Red Moon' rising on Monday evening.

Anyone any good with Photoshop?

No, not really.

It may not be astronomically accurate, but that's certainly one of my favourite Blood Moon photos thus far!

[Zad]

Unfortunately fog arrived here just as the Moon was going into eclipse.

We had some interesting cloud formations on Monday night though:



It looks like the cover of a Sisters of Mercy or Bauhaus album.

[JimNotJon]

Wow, ages since I have posted here. Non of my images were that sharp to be honest, and I was having the same issues regarding focus on the red moon.. alas I just cobbled my evenings attempts into just one photo, I kinda like it.

Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse 27 September 2015 by James Bass, on Flickr

[rich888]

Have to say that some stunningly good photographs of the moon have been posted on here over the last few days by various more skilled members which further strengthens my justification with the wife for needing a better camera and zoom lens.

I took a few pics a few nights ago using the RX100 on manual focus which I was moderately pleased with, pics are shown below:




Last night at around 8pm I was driving home and spotted the moon in full glory, so pulled over, switched the RX100 to manual mode and tried taking a few pics, which when I viewed tonight were totally black so was totally unimpressed with the pics, however, when I applied a few filters the results rather surprised me, does the moon have an atmosphere?

Pics shown below:

[rich888]

LC2 said:

Around Midnight, the Full Moon in all it's glory

Full Moon 28 Sept 2015 by Tim White, on Flickr

Around 4am - The Blood Moon. This has had a little cropping and noise reduction (oh, and a plane removed!).
Either AF was struggling or the there was so little light that the blood moon shots have all come out a bit soft. ISO 3200 and a little NR isn't going to have helped either. I guess I need a lens faster than f/6.3 to get a really good shot when there is so little light available.

Blood Moon 28 Sept 2015 by Tim White, on Flickr

Tim I have to say that the first pic of the moon you took is staggeringly sharp with quite exceptional detail, might I say is very impressive indeed, and this is the type of pic which I would like to achieve once I've bitten the bullet and purchased an SLR with a decent zoom lens, as for taking pics of the blood red moon, think I will leave that to the experts on here.

[kevin63]

Two I took hand held.

[pidsy]

Got an email from wex today with details on the new canon rod 60Da - a being for astronomy.

Specially designed for Astro photography £649 for the body.

Awaiting some reviews.

[nellyleelephant]

The 60Da has been out for a few years now, you won't have to wait for any reviews!

Also, it won't make a difference to a moon shoot, it's designed for deep sky images really.

[pidsy]

nellyleelephant said:

The 60Da has been out for a few years now, you won't have to wait for any reviews!

Also, it won't make a difference to a moon shoot, it's designed for deep sky images really.

odd - wex's email stated it was New.

anyway, tempted as a second body.