My humble moonshot photo

enewmen · Post by **enewmen** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:26 am

Here it is.

Photo taken on 10:15 pm, March 19th, 2011 @ Par Ris Park.
Orion Apex 127 Mak. 970mm FL, f/7.623
AstroTech Voyager Mount.
Canon 550D, RAW capture.
1/800 sec, ISO 200
10 frame stack
minor Photoshop processing.

Please critisize..

thanks!

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:32 am

Very nice! So many craters. I hope I can achieve something similar with my mak 127 someday. If you can resize the moon slightly smaller and/or add more black space around it, it may create a nicer moon hanging in deep space framing.

Btw, what brand and make of focal reducer did you use to capture this?

enewmen · Post by **enewmen** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:36 am

The reducer is a normal Celestron .63
It seems to work well by making things brighter and more flat. I always keep it on unless I want a long FL when I need very high magnification.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:37 am

Cool! I have the same one too and it also works well with my other SCTs.

timatworksg · Post by **timatworksg** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:06 am

Whats there to Critisize??? Great shot on a 127 mak! Shows what some forethought can achieve!!

Love the colors and the detail! Awesome!!

kensou · Post by **kensou** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:19 pm

shocking beauty haha

fizzy123 · Post by **fizzy123** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:37 pm

wow, this is extremely well down. At least could see some brown, which is basically absent from most other lunar shots

shirox · Post by **shirox** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:46 pm

very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mymoon · Post by **mymoon** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:02 pm

Well done. Good execution of my favourite object.

Unfortunately have to agree with Gary; Framing too tight.

Cheers