The Moon up close

[406 Silverado]

well I'm still on vacation, sort of. Was sitting on the patio with the inlaws and saw the moon was up, so out came the scope and a cheap point and shoot camera. The moon looked great through the new scope and the pics aren't too bad I think.





Enjoying the time off showing the in laws around, eating and drinking beer ;D. Will hit the bench when they are gone, can't wait.

[Deleted]

Nice Luna photos Mr S, I'd love to do the same but nearly always under 6/10 cloud or more

[bullardino]

Great pics, very clear and brilliant

[Wes]

Very cool.

[spud]

Awesome Rob, Glad to see you taking some pics of stuff,

Richard thats crazy. the moon for us is like a little dot in the sky

[WigWag Workshop]

Very cool, thats some awesome photography!

-Steven

[wbill76]

Sweet looking shots there Rob, sounds like the vacation and scope time are paying dividends. The 2nd one in particular shows some very nice crater detail...just count the number of impacts in that small zone!

[deafpanzer]

Nice picture... try not to be surprised if you find me at your door wanting to look at your scope.

[robbo]

Stunning photo, like Boo said do you attach the camera to the telescope, how does that work

[406 Silverado]

Thanks fellas. Gonna have some rain today so will be hanging out at home.

Richard, nice image my friend. You guys have some great views down there.

As for how the image was taken, I simply held the p&s camera to the eyepiece of the scope. Of course with a DSLR that mounts directly to the focuser would be even better.

[spud]

time to cough up for the mount for the dslr then rob ;D

[modelfreak72]

Beautiful shots bud! My son had a small scope and we used to check out to stars and moon once and awhile! Always wonder if we'll go back?

[AndyArgent.]

Excellent shots.Cheers Rob

[WigWag Workshop]

This Friday Aug. 31st there will be a rare "Blue Moon". the next one won't be until 2015. I hope the skies are clear. earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-blue-moon

-Steven

[spud]

wow, i wonder will we get to see that over here??

[406 Silverado]

Yep, tomorrow is Blue Moon., happens once in a blue moon....LOLOLOL hey it's early and I've yet to have coffee...lol

[spud]

lol cool, and it looks like tomorrow is pretty good. hopefully it will be biggish over here to warrant me going deep into the country to grab a pic of it

[spud]

Took some shots last night but even at 500th of a second I still got vibration so mine are messed up

[406 Silverado]

That sucks Spud. I figured you would have taken some great images with your set up.
Doc , cool bro. I didn't know you had a scope. It will be some time until I get a DSLR. But I might end up getting a Mak-Cass later on.

Mark it takes some time to get a good pic, I had lots of duds I had to delete but it can work.
Here are a couple of other pics.

Before it got dark.


With a 12mm ( 25mm and 2x Barlow)



I didn't get a chance to take the scope out the last couple days, blue moon and all. I did take the finder scope off and took a peak last night but it was way too bright. Need to buy a 13% filter.

[robbo]

Amazing pictures Rob

[spud]

nice pics rob, the longest lens of have is only 70-200 the moon was nice and big last night but still not close enough top get a nice big one.

its not an easy subject to grab, and this was the best one i got, you can see its a bit blurry and that is because of vibrations. most likely to do with the ocean waves coming in

[spud]

lol. we see it a lot here when its not cloudy

[406 Silverado]

Mark when you see the sun coming up or going down, look for bright stars nearby...that's Mercury and Venus.

Nice shot Spud. With the scope it's harder to get the pics because the earth and moon are moving, and you can really see how fast things move when viewing through a scope. By the time I got the camera set and pointing through the EP the moon had moved.

[spud]

yea i could see that too rob although it wasn't that fast but over time you would need to reposition the camera