The Moon Tonight

[beano500]

Taken at 18:46 GMT...





Bet it'll be cloudy in a minute/for the eclipse

[Platinum]

Anybody got some moon shooting tips?

I'll Give my 70-300mm Sigma a go.

[tvrforever]

beano500 said:

Taken at 18:46 GMT...

Bet it'll be cloudy in a minute/for the eclipse

Very nice - what with?

[beano500]

Only tip I can give you is that it's a sunny day on the moon so if you took an incident reading you'd probably do what I did - F8 either 1/500 or 1/1000 at ISO 200 and then boost when you convert from raw if necessary. (D70 so it's a bit noisy by the time you get in there )

You need to get your camera steady - I just used a Camcane (monopod), but a good sturdy tripod (can anybody pop round and lend me their Manfrotto 055 in the next half hour ) would be a big improvement for my shot.


Edited for

tvrforever said:

Very nice - what with?

D70 and my new (secondhand but new to me) 500mm F8 Reflex-Nikkor, monopod, Raw converted in Raw Shooter and simply cropped down to the pixels you see.

Edited by beano500 on Saturday 3rd March 19:18

[matthew_h]

Taken about 10 minutes ago in Sheffield:



Canon 20D, Sigma 70-200 f2.8 with 2x TC, handheld at 1/1600th, f8.0, ISO 400

[Scraggles]

excellent picture, saved to disk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na

gives detailed times when it is worth looking, currently clear sky, had a hail and huge black storm over most of bedfordshire earlier in the evening

[gfwilliams]

here's mine:




to get the red, I used a 3 second exposure on F5.6

Edited by gfwilliams on Saturday 3rd March 22:58

[jagdpanther]

I dont think the S5600 has the ability to capture it - unfortunately

[beano500]

gfwilliams said:

here's mine:

Excellent!

Best I can do without a lot of noise taking over

[fergusd]

almost at totality

colours straight from the camera, shame about the ca . . .

Fd

Edited by fergusd on Sunday 4th March 00:30

[srider]

just trying it with my 400D, 300mm 2.8 +2x. Down to 1sec at f6.3 iso1600 to get the colour, will post pics in a bit or tomorrow.

[horacethefrog]

My effort, for what it's worth:



Anyone else notice how fast the moon moves? Anything over 1.5 secs exposure was blurred

[Pierscoe1]

was just about to post mine.. but it's all but identical to gfwilliams's !!

how are you supposed to get sharp results of the moon? or is it just impossible a) tonight as it's a bit hazy, or b) without a £5000 L-glass lens ???

[beano500]

horacethefrog said:

Anyone else notice how fast the moon moves?

Now - you're sure it's not the earth moving underneath you, aren't you???

[jmorgan]

horacethefrog said:

Anyone else notice how fast the moon moves? Anything over 1.5 secs exposure was blurred

Saturn at 30 sec exposure. No motor drive on me scope yet. When I was taking shots of the moon with the plan to stack the shots, doing a shot then re adjusting to center and shot and re adjust etc.

[rhubarb]

Here are my efforts....

Earlier this evening, clear skies


Starting to cover over


Almost there


There

[GetCarter]

couple of mine:





Might stay up for the other side!

[beano500]

You're a talented lot!



On another thread someone (may even have been Mr Carter?) had observed that under eclipse conditions the moon takes on a more 3-D look. I can certainly see that in the flesh - Steve's picture even heavily hints that in 2-D rendition!

[rhubarb]

GetCarter said:

Thought the bright spec on the right hand side was dust on my lens so I cloned it out on mine, but it's there on yours to and an earlier one too - guess it must be a star - doh.

Edited by rhubarb on Saturday 3rd March 23:55

[beano500]

Sorry about this but....

rhubarb said:

Thought ... dust ... cloned it out ...