I think I'll give everyone the Moon!

[Cazzie]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/cazmodel/Stargazing/fullmoon3.jpg

Full Moon, November 2009, Celestron C-8 telescope, 40-mm ocular (eyepiece), Pentax istDL camera on T-mount with no lens. F/4.5, ISO 400, manual focus, 1/250-second.

Caz

[Kiwikat]

I was gonna say... what lens? A telescope! That looks beautiful. I'd love to try telescope stuff sometime.


This is the best I can do with my 55-250.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3883439500_e6f7b7e3a2.jpg

[Chacha]

Wooo hooo! Oh what a beauty!

I have to learn how to use mine.... :isadizzy:

[Snuffy]

Nice shot Caz! :applause:

[kilo delta]

Excellent shot,Cazzie. :ernae:

[Henry]

i would show you mine
but id get banned:kilroy:
great shots
H

[jmig]

i would show you mine
but id get banned:kilroy:
great shots
H

God forbid!! :icon_lol:

:running:

[JorisVandenBerghe]

Very nice work, Cazzie and William ;-). I tried a couple of months ago during spring, when I didn't have my telephoto lens yet. Didn't really work, actually. Probably tried to focus with the AF instead of doing it manually.

[Naismith]

Both nice shots.
Notice the big crater at the bottom with the rays eminating (I think it's called Tycho) is is a different position in each shot.

[Cazzie]

Both nice shots.
Notice the big crater at the bottom with the rays eminating (I think it's called Tycho) is is a different position in each shot.

That is because each are separate full moons shot from different hemispheres. Note in kiwikat's, that the dark crater Grimaldi on the western edge (to the left facing) is right on the edge of the moon's sphere and more toward a false equator and on my shot Grimaldi is inward from the western edge more and lower on the false equator. That is because the moon presents 59% of its surface to earth, but only 50% at any given full moon, some full moons will show more of the eastern spheer and some the west.

A good time for taking astrophotographs of the moon are during waning or waxing gibbous moons, when there is a good western or eastern terminator (sunset or sunrise on the moon), thus producing shadows from the mountain ranges.

Here are two shots, one with a 25-mm ocular and a description of the area the enlarged area of the Appennine Mountains on the western terminator. The enlargement was shot using a 9-mm ocular, OSO 400, 1/4-setting on clock driven C-8.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/cazmodel/Stargazing/moon5.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/cazmodel/Stargazing/sunsetonappennines.jpg

Caz

[Panther_99FS]

Nice one Cazz! :applause:

[Chacha]

wow~ :applause:

[Cratermaker]

Very nice! I have dabbled a bit with my G5, but it can't really handle the weight of the camera body.

[Cloud9Gal]

Awesome shots Cazz! The moon has always fascinated me more than the sun. Now if I could only fly to it...

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[jmig]

Caz, my dad was an amateur astronomer. He built a 6" reflector telescope we used to look at the sky. I remember many a night being out with him looking at the stars, looking for shooting stars, and flying saucers :icon_lol: He taught me the constellations and stars. To this day, whenever I look at the night sky I orient myself to where they were in my backyard. I then know the N, S, E, & W points.

He always subscribed to Sky & Telescope I remember as a kid reading the magazine. The Celestron was the dream telescope. He would have loved your pictures. :)

Thank you for reviving some good memories of my father. :ernae:

[Cazzie]

Caz, my dad was an amateur astronomer. He built a 6" reflector telescope we used to look at the sky. I remember many a night being out with him looking at the stars, looking for shooting stars, and flying saucers :icon_lol: He taught me the constellations and stars. To this day, whenever I look at the night sky I orient myself to where they were in my backyard. I then know the N, S, E, & W points.

He always subscribed to Sky & Telescope I remember as a kid reading the magazine. The Celestron was the dream telescope. He would have loved your pictures. :)

Thank you for reviving some good memories of my father. :ernae:

That is one thing that my son has picked up from me. I was opposite of your father, I taught my father the night sky. :icon_lol:

I received a 4-in Tasco Reflector telescope for Christmas of my 13th year. I was in the 7th grade. I have been an amateur astronomer ever since. I knew so much more than the professor in my class at VA Tech, that he had me work as a tutor with him. :icon_lol:

I have belonged to the Piedmont Astronomical Society since the early 1980s. I work with the head professor at UNC-Greensboro and have had the pleasure and privilege of using the 32-in scope at Three College Observatory in Snow Camp, NC, near Burlington: http://www.uncg.edu/phy/tco/.

In 2006, I took 150 image of Mars at the Observatory during its opposition with the telescope's CCD camera over a period of fifteen minutes. These images were stacked and stitched with a special program the Observatory has and one image was formed from the best of the 150 images after stacking and stitching, this processing I might add took well over an hour. But you judge the results.

Caz

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/cazmodel/Stargazing/mars_827.jpg

[Chacha]

Awesome Caz,

:applause: