Afocal moon effort

[tenbyfifty]

it was an amazing faff trying to get the camera to line up with the scope ep.

I gave up with the tripod and did it by hand - this was the best of about half a dozen.

Don't like using my new camera in the dark though so won't be doing this again.

[geppetto]

so won't be doing this again

Bet you do though since your off to a good start 8)

[tenbyfifty]

so won't be doing this again

Bet you do though since your off to a good start 8)

what i mean is I'll get a web cam or something designed to do the job.

trouble is you don't know what you've snapped till you see it on the pc -

i was dead chuffed i got this - the rest were carp.

are cheap web cams ok for moon pix?

[geppetto]

are cheap web cams ok for moon pix

Not really, you'll get some pictures but they will be a bit iffy..

But hey, give it a whirl if you've got one lurking in a drawer..

Best to save up for a Toucam

[themos]

a dozen? you're lucky. I went through about 100 pics with handheld afocal and they were all a waste of bytes.

[tenbyfifty]

a dozen? you're lucky. I went through about 100 pics with handheld afocal and they were all a waste of bytes.

sorry to hear that. i must have had beginner's luck.

any idea what the optimum exposure settings for the moon are btw?

the above pic is F4, 1/50 sec iso 80.

i suppose i could gone down 1 f stop and maybe increased the shutter speed

to make it less blurry?

[GordonCopestake]

Depends entirely on your aperture, focal length, eyepiece focal length (for afocal) and seeing. Probably a lot of other things too. If your camera can do bracketing that might be a way forward

[tenbyfifty]

Depends entirely on your aperture, focal length, eyepiece focal length (for afocal) and seeing. Probably a lot of other things too. If your camera can do bracketing that might be a way forward

yes i take your point, i guess if you get one reasonable shot like this its a good starting point.

It would be good if you had some sort of cam where you could input the specs of the scope/ep and the object you were trying to image, and it did the rest - one day maybe...

[The Warthog]

Nice shot, actually. I tried to do afocal shots of the moon when it was at half phase, but I found out that the light meter for my camera is not inside the lens, so everything was terrible overexposed. Back to the drawing board.

[tenbyfifty]

Nice shot, actually. I tried to do afocal shots of the moon when it was at half phase, but I found out that the light meter for my camera is not inside the lens, so everything was terrible overexposed. Back to the drawing board.

yeah, i had a few like that.

here are the exposure settings for this pic again, probably not ideal but a good starting point for tweaking i guess:

F4, 1/50 sec iso 80.

i suppose i could gone down 1 f stop and maybe increased the shutter speed

to make it less blurry?