First shot at the moon

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First shot at the moon

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Here's a couple of moon pics I took last year with the portaball and a Canon Ixus camera handheld to the eyepiece :P
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Hi,
Wow!!! Very nice!!! Steady hand and big "gun" really do wonders... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Have a nice day.
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Post by amin7074 »

very nice AC.... :shock:
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Post by Canopus Lim »

Nice one. :)
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Post by Tachyon »

Ah... the joys of wide field... :)
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Post by aquillae »

nice shots!:)
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Post by Sandeep10 »

that's Great....! :) good one (wish I could have 1 portaball)
how long was the exposure....???? :wink: :wink:
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Post by acc »

Thanks :oops: I think there are many other better moon pics taken by other forumers.

Sandeep, I do not know what was the exposure as I just point-and-shoot in auto mode with the flash off.
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Post by jiahao1986 »

The first shot is 1/60s at F/2.8, second one 1/250 at F/5.6, these can be read in the pictures' EXIF data.
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Post by Canopus Lim »

On Monday the sky was clear, so I tried for the first time handholding a Canon A75 camera and taking pictures afocally from my Obsession dob.

This camera has CCD issues and the CCD was replaced once. I also used the Baader Moon/Skyglow filter to help filter off the yellowish haze around the moon.

Not the sharpest though as it was hard to focus and hold the camera at the same time...the LCD screen was also small so it was hard to see if it was well focused. :P

Attached are pictures taken through my 11mm Nagler T6 (has vignetting at the edges because of its short eye relief) and my 17mm Nagler T4. The images are unprocessed and uncropped...raw from camera.

Through 11mm Nagler T6:
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/6518/img0222jb6.jpg

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/3065/img0223vz1.jpg

Through 17mm Nagler T4:
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/4677/img0226ax3.jpg

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