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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2011, 10:15:54 pm »
Some more from moi.


1/200th, f10, ISO-200, 400mm.



1/200th, f10, ISO-200, 400mm.

I had a little play around within Photoshop.  :ashamed:

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2011, 10:21:02 pm »
What gear are you using hedge? *scratches chin*

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2011, 10:23:46 pm »
Think I'm going to head out with the telescope and have a quick looksee.

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #33 on: March 19, 2011, 10:24:51 pm »
I'm off the gear Rich just Methadone now.  :laugh:

I assume you mean camera and lens Pentax K-5, Sigma 120-400 f4.5-5.6.

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #34 on: March 19, 2011, 10:27:23 pm »
Ohh good... I'm glad you manage to get off the heavy stuff!

Impressive clarity in that first one on this page!  :notworthy:

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2011, 10:56:43 pm »
i cant tell anything in size...

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2011, 11:06:23 pm »
i cant tell anything in size...
  :confused:


Great pics fella's!  :happy2:

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2011, 11:15:53 pm »
Well, not the Moon... but when I was outside with my telescope I pointed it at Saturn and got a nice view there. Randomly decided to point my Leica into the eyepiece, and look what I got!


Saturn by CmdrFire, on Flickr

Very chuffed with this, that's 100% and I didn't think it'd be possible to capture anything at all!

F/2, 1/12s, ISO 1250 (IIRC), 28mm lens (aided by a Meade ETX-90 (1250mm, f/13.8 ))

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #38 on: March 19, 2011, 11:23:50 pm »
Nice one mate!

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #39 on: March 20, 2011, 10:16:36 am »
Some frikkin' awesome moon shots. I wish I had a decent camera set up. Headed out last night and noticed the moon was very low, very big and very yellow. Would have made an awesome shot. Made me howl anyway.  :grin:

EDIT: cmdrfire, did you just poke your camera at the eye piece of the telescope? Or did you use some kind of adaptor?

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #40 on: March 20, 2011, 10:44:47 am »
Well, not the Moon... but when I was outside with my telescope I pointed it at Saturn and got a nice view there. Randomly decided to point my Leica into the eyepiece, and look what I got!


Just as long as you don't start taking pictures of Uranus we'll be just fine.  :booty:

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #41 on: March 20, 2011, 03:18:39 pm »
@Stealthwolf, I just pointed the camera into the eyepiece, manually set to the settings described. Took a few shots, all of the others suffered from camera shake but I got that one at least  :jumpmove:

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2011, 09:55:11 am »
Was at a housewarming last night and someone brought there telescope (it had an computerised equatorial mount but he didnt know how to use it)

Manage to take this on my iphone through the eyepiece.


Saturn by Rich Wigley, on Flickr

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #43 on: March 21, 2011, 11:24:17 am »
w00t, more Saturn! What telescope did your friend have Rich?

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Re: Big moon tonight
« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2011, 11:47:17 am »
It was a Meade Reflector... not sure about the model but it was about 1100mm focal length (id had a few sherbets so cannot be 100% sure)