Waxing Crescent Moon and Jupiter @ 2500mm

[Wazza]

In amongst my busy schedule today, (work basically, and then a social event later in the evening), I managed to fit in the first moon viewing with the 10" Meade telescope at my grandads place. It was the first invite to view, and I jumped at the opportunity, and rescheduled my evening plans. ;)

Well here are the results.
I beleive the settings for moon shooting was somewhere around 1/60th up to 1/125th.

You can see it's a bit big for full frame.

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/moon_2500_01.jpg

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/moon_2500_02.jpg

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/moon_2500_03.jpg

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/moon_2500_04.jpg
Overexposing to bring out the shadow detail.

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/jupiter_2500_01.jpg
100% crop of Jupiter. Pretty cool, considering any other lens would show it as just a spec.

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/jupiter_2500_02.jpg
Another 100% crop, overexposing to bring out the 4 moons.

Bed time, now I'll be counting moons, and not sheep. :rolleyes:

[Andy_T]

Nice ones :D

Are those 2500 mm before or after the crop factor :lol:

Best regards,
Andy

[RockOne]

Awesome shots...if you got any closer to the moon you could just about see Neil Armstrong's footprints ?.
The pic of Jupiter is awesome too. I had a go at it with my lowly 300mm last year and after some serious cropping it turned up as a bright spot with 3 smaller bright spots beside it (one of the moons must have been round the back). Theers a couple of sites online that will show you which of those moons are which if you put in the date and time etc.

Just a though..have you tried photoshopping the banded jupiter into the overexposed one ?.

Can't wait to see what you come up with when you train that thing on Saturn !

[cfcRebel]

Nice moon shots Wazza! That's the closest i have seen so far in this forum. The jupiter image is very cool!

[witchy]

Awesome shots!

[Muzz]

Great shots (once again) Wazza :)

How did you manage it mate?

[d'homme]

Try Saturn.. ull like.

[d'homme]

Try Saturn.. ull like.

[Duder]

nice. first shot is the best. I could stare at the moon for hours through a telescope.

[felix21685]

those are neat man !

[chakras]

Wow !!! Amazing shots

[Alan B]

HOLY MOLY :cool:

I love any shot to do with space :D

[Wazza]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. :)

2500mm is the focal length of the telescope, plus the 1.6x crop factor. Maybe a full frame 1Ds could just fit the moon in at 2500mm? Anyone know?

I was in such a rush last night. I had to get to bed, as had a 5am start, getting my family to airport for their lucky holidy in Brisbane/Surfers. Just got back from spending a few hours at airport, and taking some other LUCKY shots. ;) I will share some later. Look out in Nature section again. (shot some sort of young Hawk/Falcon in a suburban street!) :p

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/2500.jpg

[Leorooster]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. And, how did you mount the cam to the telescope? Some pics would be appreciated. Thanks again.

[Wazza]

I made a post about it many weeks ago, but it was an EOS T-Mount

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/tmount4.jpg
http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/tmount5.jpg

[mdenigris]

Great work!