Some Moon pictures to share.

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:27 am

Hi all,

Skies were not too good today, so I stayed in and did some Moon photography through my living room window. Here are a couple of better results that came out :

Regards,

Post by **Airconvent** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:58 am

hi sam,
great pics and lots of details! a VAST improvement over your previous efforts with the pronto...heh heh...I know the diff came mostly from the upgrade to a 6" MN56 but I wonder how much is attributed to change in camera from your canon to the Nikon coolpix 995..

rich

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:12 am

I know the diff came mostly from the upgrade to a 6" MN56 but I wonder how much is attributed to change in camera from your canon to the Nikon coolpix 995..

Optics of both scopes are comparable in the range of 1/6 - 1/7 wave, but considering the relatively huge jump in aperture (and with it, resolving power too) from 70mm to 127mm, even though the Nikon 995 is known to be a better camera, I think it made little difference in this case.

dew · Post by **dew** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:21 am

hey sam, nice pics.. really sharp. how did you get the focus so spot on?
hope to see more pics!

eu-wen

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:50 am

hey sam, nice pics.. really sharp. how did you get the focus so spot on?
hope to see more pics!

eu-wen

Previously, I would focus by setting the camera's focus to infinity and then focus on the scope itself until I got what I felt is a focused image on the LCD. Yesterday, I tried using the scope's focus to get a sharp image on the LCD first, then capture the image using macro mode in the camera.

I will try a different part of the Moon tonight if the weather permits.

blurblock · Post by **blurblock** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:52 pm

Airconvent wrote:hi sam,
great pics and lots of details! a VAST improvement over your previous efforts with the pronto...heh heh...I know the diff came mostly from the upgrade to a 6" MN56 but I wonder how much is attributed to change in camera from your canon to the Nikon coolpix 995..

rich

hmmm.... tot the MN56 is a 5" scope?

MN56 = Maksutov-Newtonian, 5", f6 ??????

Post by **Airconvent** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:09 am

blurblock wrote:
Airconvent wrote:hi sam,
great pics and lots of details! a VAST improvement over your previous efforts with the pronto...heh heh...I know the diff came mostly from the upgrade to a 6" MN56 but I wonder how much is attributed to change in camera from your canon to the Nikon coolpix 995..

rich
hmmm.... tot the MN56 is a 5" scope?

MN56 = Maksutov-Newtonian, 5", f6 ??????

yes blurblock....you're right.. I don't know why I keep on calling his scope " 6" "...all the time...

rich