Full moon from the other evening.

[DIW35]

The moon was both full and at it's closest point to earth the other evening, so I thought I'd take a few shots and stitch them together.

I should mention that I haven't added the colours in this shot, they were already there. I've just brought them out in post processing.

Edited by DIW35 on Sunday 14th December 01:16

[stevieb]

Can i ask what you have taken that with as that is spectavular photo!

[DIW35]

That is a montage of 5 photos that were taken with my Canon 40D attached to a telescope at prime focus. ISO was set at 160 with a shutter speed of 1/250s. Effective aperture was f/10. I dropped the exposure by about 1/2 stop in post processing after the images were stitched together, but before making any other changes.

Edited by DIW35 on Sunday 14th December 01:26

[heebeegeetee]

What a fantastic picture.

When you say you brought the colours out post-processing, what do you mean?

[fid]

That's pretty epic!

[DIW35]

Despite the moon looking like a white blob, it is actually quite colourful. A correctly exposed image of the moon will capture those colours, but they are extremely faint and washed out, and can only be fully appreciated if they are given some help to stand out by careful post processing.

All that means is that software for photographic imaging (I personally use Adobe Photoshop) can be use to tweak various aspects of the image to improve or enhance what came out of the camera. In this case I've used Photoshop to enhance the colours to make them appear stronger.

[heebeegeetee]

Well done. There's some more mooning pictures here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-109...

Er, is your moon the right way round?

[DIW35]

It may have been off originally, as I didn't bother setting the camera properly on the back of the scope. I've rotated it now, so it should be closer to what you would normally expect to see.

[4hero]

Dear santa, for my christmas I would like a lovely telescope

Stunning shot!!

[stevieb]

DIW35 said:

That is a montage of 5 photos that were taken with my Canon 40D attached to a telescope at prime focus. ISO was set at 160 with a shutter speed of 1/250s. Effective aperture was f/10. I dropped the exposure by about 1/2 stop in post processing after the images were stitched together, but before making any other changes.

Edited by DIW35 on Sunday 14th December 01:26

Just wondered what telescope you have, as i am looking to buy a Meade ETX125PE with the eyepiece set. Just wanted to compare and see what the scope could be capable of, once i gt to grips with it.

Cheers

Steve

[DIW35]

Coincidence. When I started looking a telescopes I was looking at the ETX125PE. Not sure how, but I ended up with something completely different - a Celestron 9.25".

Think the Meade should be fine for moon shots, as it seems to get pretty good reviews.

[Bernie-the-bolt]

Absolutely fantastic

[john185k]

Superb photo!

[miniman]

That is really superb. Does anyone know what the things are that look like craters / impact marks?

[Tycho]

miniman said:

That is really superb. Does anyone know what the things are that look like craters / impact marks?

IIRC, they are craters....

[miniman]

Tycho said:

miniman said:

That is really superb. Does anyone know what the things are that look like craters / impact marks?

IIRC, they are craters....

[jackal]

thats amazing

i'd love to get a telescope one day

do yuo know what all those lines are radiating outwards from the 2 craters(?)

Edited by jackal on Sunday 14th December 20:59

[Bernie-the-bolt]

jackal said:

thats amazing

i'd love to get a telescope one day

do yuo know what all those lines are radiating outwards from the 2 craters(?)

Edited by jackal on Sunday 14th December 20:59

An object in space travelling at 20,000+mph hitting a dense object travelling at 0mph - makes a bit of a mess and I assume bits fly at all sorts of angles - I would assume it's probably debris causing marks on the surface.

Edited by Bernie-the-bolt on Sunday 14th December 21:17

[Bee_Jay]

Bernie-the-bolt said:

jackal said:

thats amazing

i'd love to get a telescope one day

do yuo know what all those lines are radiating outwards from the 2 craters(?)

Edited by jackal on Sunday 14th December 20:59

An object in space travelling at 20,000+mph hitting a dense object travelling at 0mph - makes a bit of a mess and I assume bit fly at all sorts of angles - I would assume it's probably debris causing marks on the surface.

Indeed, millions of years of impacts, with no atmosphere or tectonic activity to erase them...

[jackal]

amazing.. some of the thrails are half the distance of one side of the whole moon