Exposures of 1/1600 and 1/400 respectively, @ ISO200.
Enjoy!
Gordon
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10 day old Moon through a telescope, now with all-sky photo!
OK, I finally got around to hooking the D70 up to my 25cm Newtonian telescope, and below are a couple of photos. Newtonian focus is 1040mm focal length, and for the 2nd more detailed image of the Southern heavily cratered area I slipped in the TC-201 teleconverter for a bit of whats technically known as negative projection
Exposures of 1/1600 and 1/400 respectively, @ ISO200.
Enjoy!
Gordon Last edited by Gordon on Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Gorgeous! ...but I thought the moon was much older than that?
 
One of the great things about this forum is even if you don't have a crtitique for a shot, you learn techniques and get ideas from others. Thanks for posting this  *** When getting there is half the fun! ***
Stunning imagery!
Geoff
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Thanks all.
Any shop that sells telescopes (apart from department stores/chemists and other purveyors of toy telesopes that is) will have them. In Sydney I'd recommend the Binocular and Telescope Shop. Gordon D70, D200, CP5700
A teleconverter is a negative lens, ie you cant form an image with it alone as it causes the rays to diverge. When it intersects a converging cone of rays it reduces the amount of convergence, effectively converting it to a longer focal length. Its one of the main means of increasing the effective focal length of a telescope. For greater increases in fl, eyepeice projection is generally used- its necessary for photos of the planets if you want to see any detail. Typical fl's for Jupiter, Mars, Saturn etc are 20000mm and up! Gordon D70, D200, CP5700
Nice work Gordon.
Thanx for the techo commentary also. TFF (Trevor)
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Very nice and clear. That is something I have always wanted to do. are you out of the city much? if not, does the brightness of the night sky effect the detail of the shots?
Great shots Gordon, very enjoyable stuff.
For anyone else wishing to photograph the moon, Gordon has posted some good stuff on a previous post here: http://www.dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php?t=13392&highlight= Max President, A.A.A.A.A (Australian Association Against Acronym Abuse)
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With a target as bright as the moon, being far from the city isnt really important, but it is very important for deep sky photography- galaxies, nebula etc, and also for comets. That said, yes I am quite a way from the city- 300km N of Sydney, but there is so much light pollution coming spewing into the sky above it, that I can see it from here! My main source of light pollution is Tamworth, 30km to my NNW. There are plenty of astrophotos on my web page that will give you an idea of how dark the sky is, but this one is probably the best to show that. 
Gordon http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/ D70, D200, CP5700
the fisheye view of the sky looks great.
would be great to be able to see views like this from home. Steve check out my image gallery @
http://photography.avkomp.com/gallery3
Yes I should get up and take an image or 2 of it before it gets too low as well. Its C/Hyakutake in my all sky image from March 1996. here it is a bit more enlarged
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Yep. Makes you think about just how much the Earth must have copped over the same time. Makes you glad of the atmosphere now, doesn't it? If we didn't have it, we'd be dead for two reasons. Suffocation and space impact! People put way too much rubbish in signature blocks.
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