The Moon (27/6)

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:37 am

Tonight's moon was quite pretty. Anyone else managed to capture some images of it ?

Taken at prime focus with the Nikon D70 through the TeleVue Pronto + TeleVue 2x barlow.

I think the settings were ISO 500, 1/180s for the first pic and ISO 500, 1/90s for the second.

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:17 pm

Yup, I managed to get some as well. Btw, I think last night was the 28th, not the 27th.

Pictures taken with canon ixus 500, afocal (balanced on eyepiece) through 15mm celestron plossl, auto exposure,balance,focus. (my camera has no manual controls

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My photos are opposite of Samuel's because my etx90 inverts the images left to right. Lazy to flip my pictures so sorry for the confusion :oops: .

The top picture was reduced from the full resolution. This is a full resolution crop from the 5mp picture showing the Mare Imbrium basin (top right of picture above). The half destroyed basin of Sirius Iridum is visible on the right, as is crater J Herschel above it. You can catch a glimpse of the Alpine Valley top left-center.

Clavius and Gessendi respectively. Taken with the movie mode on the ixus without tracking and stacked in Registrax 2. 15mm eyepiece + 3x optical zoom yields about 250x magnification.

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:24 pm

Yup, I managed to get some as well. Btw, I think last night was the 28th, not the 27th.

Oops, haahaa, that's what happens when you stayed up to watch Euro'04 for the past 2 days ... your days get mixed up with their European equivalent ...

BTW, I like # 3.

Post by **weixing** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:53 pm

Hi,
Nice shot... Can see some "blue blue" thing on the edge of crater... may be it is the camera lens...

Anyway, I also have this "blue blue" thing at the edge of the moon when I use my CoolPix 4500 with ScopeTronrix MaxView 14mm on my Newtonian. I figure out that the blue fringe is cause by the ScopeTronrix MaxView 14mm when use on a fast scope, because the blue fringe didn't appear when I use the eyepiece with my previous 5" MCT.

By the way samuel, you say you use prime focus, but how do you zoom in on pic #2??

Have a nice day.

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:51 pm

By the way samuel, you say you use prime focus, but how do you zoom in on pic #2??

This one ?

Well, all my pictures were taken at the maximum resolution of 3008x2000 pixels, so they're all pretty large when viewed at full size on the computer. Even though #2 looks pretty close up, it is still a re-sized version of the original (huge).

I wonder how large Jupiter would look on the computer monitor when taken at 3008x2000 ... the size of a tennis ball ?