The Moon – before the eclipse
Well seeing as my galaxy imaging has been interrupted by a beautiful full moon, I decided to take a shot of the moon. If you’re not already aware of it, we’re expecting an eclipse tomorrow night – about 3am (GMT) Thursday morning. Of course I’m forecast a cloudy night but here’s hoping its clear.
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| Camera Optics Focal Length Focal Ratio ISO Autoguiding? Subs Total Exposure |
Canon 40D (unmodified) Canon 500 f4 L IS +x2 extender 1000mm f14 200 No 1 1/160s |
I’ve never got really serious about a full moon shot before, deep sky objects are more my thing, but tonight I took much care using the 40D’s live view to focus really accurately and then took a batch of shots because I was chasing the seeing somewhat. I also used the 40D ‘Highlight Priority’ mode, seems to work well. Anyway I picked what seemed to be the clearest exposure & processed it in Photoshop & voila. A nice change really.
Even if you say this isn’t normally your thing, it’s a lovely photo.
Comment by Dave Wild — February 21, 2008 @ 8:54 am