Cresent Moon - 20D & Celestron 8" (2000mm)

[mdenigris]

I received the T-Mount and adapter from B&H today to mount my 20D on the Celestron telescope. The moon looked great tonight, so I assembled the gear shot some frames.

Technical notes - I found that shooting at 1/6 sec gave me the best histogram through the scope. I had to rotate the camera to an odd angle to fit the moon in the frame as portrait, I then re-aligned it in photoshop to orient it the way I saw it.

[Ballen Photo]

AWESOME Michael! I LOVE well done shots of the Moon, and this fits the bill. ;)
-Bruce

[Wazza]

Nice work!

Unfortunately my setup with 2500mm, can't fit it all in! :lol:
But we do have a 0.6x converter, so we should be able to reduce the image size. I'm looking forward to more of your shots. :)

[mdenigris]

Thanks - I saw your shots too - guess we both had the same idea. Is that a Meade 14" in your post?

[Wazza]

Just a 10". :)

Last night we did try the 0.6x, and we got the whole moon in like yours. The shots seemed to come out well. Nice to have moon shots without having to do 100% crop. Only a 20% resize. ;)

[mdenigris]

How does the 0.6x work? Does it sit between the camera and the t-mount? I think I need something like that for shooting a full moon. To get the shot above, I had to rotate the camera frame parallel to the sun/shade line to capture the moon in portrait. I had to rotate it back to it's correct angle in photoshop and expand the canvas. I would not fit a full moon in frame.

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Is it possible to provide a link to the T-mount?

thanks!

[Desertraptor]

A shot of distinction. Awesome image.

[mdenigris]

Here you go. Don't forget the camera specific adaptor that goes with this (found in accessories)

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=202137&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

[mdenigris]

A shot of distinction. Awesome image.

Thank you!!

[ngannet]

Amazing shot...very well done!

[WepWaWep]

One that rates in the top one percent, excellent.

[Keiffer]

Good god man that is AWESOME! I can almost see the space junk left behind by the Apollo flights:-) That is really cool, By far the best I've seen so far. Way to go michael.

[Raj]

Awesome !

[GyRob]

VERY nice, it would be hard to better this .
Rob.

[Wazza]

Sorry, didn't see your question before.

The 0.6x is actually in place of the existing eyepiece. Gotta unscrew it, and put the other one on. So it's not really a converter, as it's just a different piece, stand-alone.

I still haven't shot anything else. That reminds me to go and try again. The weather tonight and tomorrow seems rather fine.

http://wazz*****scity.com/astro.htm

Those are the old ones.

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Here you go. Don't forget the camera specific adaptor that goes with this (found in accessories)

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=202137&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

Thanks! I presume it'll be the EOS adaptor correct?

[mdenigris]

Thanks! I presume it'll be the EOS adaptor correct?

yup --> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home;jsessionid=C0J5kDKQ29!2004681137?O=cart&A=details&Q=&sku=116735&is=REG&addedTroughValue=202137_REG&addedTroughType=accessory