First attempt at photographing the Moon…

Please feel free to rip it apart

I seem to have knocked my focal length back to 250mm when I had 300mm available (Sony A55/Tamron 70-300), so may get back out there later.

Only PP is a heavy crop and some sharpening – noise is visible on the black at full size, so may knock the sharpening back a bit, but I don’t think it’s too visible at the size on here.

Focal length: 250mm
Shutter speed: 1/125 sec
Aperture: F11.0
ISO: 200
Exposure comp.: ±0.00

Yup, that’s definitely the moon, well done. 🙂

By the way, (I’m not familiar with Sonys but) if you have a live-view function on your camera, try using that – if you zoom in close enough you can see the moon moving across the sky, which is pretty awe inspiring, I think.

Nice pic, although I have a sudden urge to go out killing. Again.

That’s no moon……!

(Somebody had to do it!)

Can you photo the other side next time.

Moon pics are ace and you’ve got a good one there! I’ve taken some with my 50-500 Sigma. Moon races across the viewfinder at an astonishing rate and t’s not quite so easy as you think it’ll be.

One of my attempts

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Mate of mine took a picture of the moon with a webcam.

Results are here.

http://astro.neutral.org/gallery/moon.html

A couple of different crops/edits. Not sure which I prefer….

Not my shot but the OHs:

Not as good clarity as above, but a cool plane silhouette totally by accident! 8)

Those all seem good to me, better than my feeble attempt.

Nothing wrong with that essel.

I fired off over 200 shots (albeit including some bracketed shots and a Raw file for each one, so that comes down to about 40-50 efforts) to get a couple of keepers, trying a multitude of shutter speeds and ISO settings.

I’m particularly pleased with the quality the Sony is producing though – considering my focal length is only 250mm, I’ve had to crop so heavily that the file size on the last pic for example is only 161kb.

My first and last attempt

Nice Tijuana

Ah, but I took mine through a spotting scope using a Lumix G1 & am frankly, a bit dissapointed with the results I’ve had with what I’ve tried (It’s probly just me being crap)
Mine’s nowhere near as sharp as yours & the others.

Mattstreet, that’s one of the best moon shots I’ve ever seen, and all because of the plane. 😀

i’ve only tried getting shots of the moon once and my settings were miles off. cheers for posting up in this thread, i’ll try some more like the above next time!

matt’s reminds me of this:

(atlantis shuttle across the sun, by the way)

Don’t make me get my camera out at this time of night.

The shot of the ISS passing in front of the sun is wonderful.

clicky

Last week I took some shots of other moons. 300mm on a A55 of the big moons of Jupiter.
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i’ve only tried getting shots of the moon once and my settings were miles off. cheers for posting up in this thread, i’ll try some more like the above next time!

Just out of interest, my settings were as follows
Shutter Speed 1/200
Aperture f/8
ISO 100
Focal length 400mm

Best to spot meter from the moon and keep the exposure time fairly short otherwise you start to get star trails plus the subject is on the move too

i think i mostly got the ISO and aperture miles off, as i didn’t really think how bright it actually was. ended up with a white blob. 😆

Cool pics, I like the close up ones.

You’d think the shuttle would melt being that close wouldn’t you?

I think I read somewhere that the slowest shutter speed to get a sharp image of the moon is 1/60th, any slower and you get motion blur. Moving pretty fast when you consider how far away it is.

why stop down to f11? surely at infinity focus it’s going to be sharp at the lenses f5.6-8 sweet spot?

MrSmith – I was using shutter priority and the camera set the aperture. I’ll try full manual next time.

This is the original that the photos are cropped from – I think the camera has done a good job of the capture considering the focal length….

This was my first attempt many *cough* moons ago. Handheld Fujifilm S5800 on plain ol’ auto. Chuffed I got the craters without a tripod…

I’d be a gunslinger in another life…

Been out trying to better it tonight, but don’t think I managed it – the moon is full rather than waxing, so no shadows. It’s blummin bright too, also a bit windy….

cool plane silhouette

Does your OH work for the sunday sport ?

i saw how clear the moon was on the bike ride home and meant to try some snaps tonight. then i forgot. 😆

cool plane silhouette
Does your OH work for the sunday sport ?

😆

Not any more and she was young and needed the money! 😉

Genuine lucky shot tho – didn’t even realise she’d got that until it was loaded up.