On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This was my best effort at the last 'super moon'.
> <
> http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Tech/Sigma600%20and_Meade1000&image=_MG_6617croof2.jpg
> >
>
> Meade 90 mm diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain 1000/11, used as a camera lens
> with adapter to put prime focus at the sensor.
> The image on the sensor was about 10.3 mm in diameter.
>
> Beautiful. If I can get to that, I'd be happy.
>
> Absent a good, solid, motor driven equatorial mount, trying to fill the
> frame is not practical. The moon is 'moving'
> fast enough to make that pretty much impossible with a conventional tripod
> head. I counted myself lucky to get it near
> the center of the frame at 2/3 of frame height.
>
> I noticed how fast it was moving with the simple setup I had, at the
magnification I got.
>
> Yup, 1/60 @ f11 worked fine. Any motion blur was below the atmospheric
> effects.
>
> Lunar Legend Moose
>
>
> Did you leave it at auto ISO or set it? I found I had to force it down to
200 and then bracket the exposure to find something that worked. But then,
I also had a tiny white dot in the middle of the image.
--
Paul Braun
Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
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