Shooting the moon

[Scott™]

Planning on shooting the moon shortly as it is a fasination of mine and somthing ive always wanted to shoot. Any tips from the pros? I know the basics like

• use a tripod
• long shutter speed

Anything else to get a good, detailed shot?

 

[dk]

this was my recent attempt, found it quite difficult, but i was handheld, no tripod.

was using canon 50d with 70-200 f4L lens.

 

[Rhino172]

you dont want a long shutter speed....it's too bright so will be a big white ball in the sky with no detail at all...plus it's constantly moving so will be a blur

one of mine, not the greatest effort by any means, shutter speed was 1/500 300mm f5.6 (it's been cropped a fait bit too)

 

[superbenji88]

this was my recent attempt, found it quite difficult, but i was handheld, no tripod.

was using canon 50d with 70-200 f4L lens.

Looks like the Death Star

 

[Scott™]

How do you let enough light in and get a cracking focus? Brilliant pics btw.

 

[dk]

think mine was iso200, 1/1000th and f4.

 

[Gaz.]

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/howtophoto/

 

[UncleGrumpy]

A tripod is always a good idea unless you have IS lenses, even then it's still going to be better turning it off and using a tripod, I got this during the recent lunar eclipse, the clouds don't help much, and as said, long exposures are a no-no, you'll just get a bright blob, results get better the faster you get - up to a point obviously.

That was handheld at 400mm.

 

[dunganick]

300mm F4, ISO 400 1/320th Mounted on a Tripod with 3 sec delay on shutter. Use Live view to get the focus spot on.

 

[Scott™]

Thanks for all the tips lads. Just need this cloud to clear off now lol.

 

[lamborgini8]

I found that the shorter the shutter the more detail, just obviously not too extreme or you can't see a thing. Here's mine, its far from brilliant but it was through double glazing so not bad.

Shutter: 1/60
F/8.0
Focal Length: 60mm
ISO: 80

 

[Scott™]

Finally got my moon shot lads what you think?

 

[vibrio]

Planning on shooting the moon shortly as it is a fasination of mine and somthing ive always wanted to shoot. Any tips from the pros? I know the basics like

• use a tripod
• long shutter speed

Anything else to get a good, detailed shot?

don't use a long shutter speed. the moon moves so you'll actually have to use a fast shutter speed. if your camera has live view or is a compact then set it up on a tripod and then watch the moon move across the screen very quickly lol

 

[JJ!]

This was my attempt:

 

[Derelict-UK]

I shot the following at ISO 1000 Cant remember the shutter speed, but it wasn't slow!

The camera was on a tripod and fired using a remote. It was at 200mm at its highest resoloution then I cropped the image to get closer.

Finally I messed with shadow & highlight and sharpened it once.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Nice. I tried the other night but i'm having trouble with my lense (sensors).
Tried on manual focus with a high speed. Will try again with new lense... eventually!

 

[PinkoCommie]

Here's one of my first attempts of the moon.

http://skywatching.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/moon.jpg
(couldn't embed, don't seem to be able to resize the inserted pic)

Taken using Cannon 450D with a Tamron 70-300mm @ f/5 and 1/25th second exposure.

Pretty good for a cloudy night.

My mate has himself a EQ5 autotracking mount for his telescope, so at some point I'm going to piggyback my camera on the mount and take some deepsky shots.