First Moon shot 09/08/2011

[Steve Wright]

while I was waiting for Jupiter to rise last night I thought I would practice on the Moon with my Nikon D3100 at prime focus, quite pleased with the result if a little out of focus maybe, comments appreciated as imaging with a DSLR is a bit of a learning curve

[Captain Tweaky]

The way I did it was to attach the camera body to a T-mount attached to a tube which holds an eyepiece which fits into the viewing port - basically in place of an eyepiece. This picked up just a small area of the moon so it was not too difficult to focus using live view. I then took about forty images to form a 'mosaic' of overlapping sections of the moon. Then using photoshop I cut and pasted heavily feathered cropped sections on top of each other until I had the final result. Took a little bit of jiggery-pokery, but I was pleased with the end result which in print is about A0 in size. I was using a Meade ETX125 (5" schmidt cassegrain) on an Alt-Az mount unguided but tracking the moon with a Canon 450D body and 12.5mm eyepiece. Hope this helps!

[Albireo380]

Nice image Steve, well focussed and crisp.

Tom

[TheThing]

Nowt wrong with that! Lovely image, well done.

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- TheThing.

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[cloudbuster]

yes steve,....a great start, and a lot better than any of my early efforts.....tho saying that, its a lot better than some of my later ones too!!!!

[astrosphinx]

better than most of my early efforts as well - nice one.

[Stargazing_Cliff]

that is great for first moon shot