Newtophoto
9th of February 2009 (Mon), 01:56
Couldn't resist the glow of tonights full moon. I played around with my telescope and came up with a few OK shots. Scope used was a Celestron C80ED 600mm f6.5. I used a 40mm Maxview II eyepiece with a 1.6x maxpower lens. Basically a 2" 25mm eyepiece which gives about 24x magnification.
Pictures were taken afocally(holding camera lens up to eyepiece). Focal length was around 44mm (see exif), which does up the mag, but I don't know the exact resulting mag. No cropping was done to these. I played around in Lightroom and upped the saturation a little to see what they would look like. I think they turned out pretty good. Probably my best to date. I'm sure if I wasn't hand holding the camera and used a smaller aperture (lens is a lot sharper around f8) they would have been even better. Oh well, still new to this. Let me know what you think.
http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj397/rick0980/IMG_1402copy.jpg
http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj397/rick0980/IMG_1403copy.jpg
Pictures were taken afocally(holding camera lens up to eyepiece). Focal length was around 44mm (see exif), which does up the mag, but I don't know the exact resulting mag. No cropping was done to these. I played around in Lightroom and upped the saturation a little to see what they would look like. I think they turned out pretty good. Probably my best to date. I'm sure if I wasn't hand holding the camera and used a smaller aperture (lens is a lot sharper around f8) they would have been even better. Oh well, still new to this. Let me know what you think.
http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj397/rick0980/IMG_1402copy.jpg
http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj397/rick0980/IMG_1403copy.jpg