Speedy moon!

[beatledave]

When I hook my webcam to my Bresser Skylux 700x70 the moon travels quite quickly across the screen. Anyone else have the same problem. You can tell I'm new to this!

[nightfisher]

you need some kind of tracking, and have the mount fairly well polar aligned

[beatledave]

Does it really move that quickly?! Wow. Thanks, I know what I'm asking for Christmas!

[JamesF]

Actually, it's mostly down to the Earth that's rotating that quickly.

James

[beatledave]

I know, I must stop referring to the moon and stars as moving!

[nightfisher]

Is your bresser on an EQ mount or alt az?, if its EQ then it should have flexi controls for tracking, with a little patience you can track lunar with this set up for some short webcam captures

[paul schofield]

It does seem to shift at a pace. Yesterday I was standing outside my work having a look at the moon in day light. As an experiment I stood still and lined up the moon's west side with a flood light to see how long it took to get its whole circle to the other side, given parallax it took roughly 4 minutes.

[Dipper]

Does it really move that quickly?! Wow. Thanks, I know what I'm asking for Christmas!

It does! Note that a full Moon disk is about half a degree in width. An average camera field of view is not much more than a degree or so. The night sky moves one degree in four minutes.

[beatledave]

Nightfisher, it's an eq so I'll try flexing with the moon! Paul and dipper, the wonders of the solar system never cease to amaze me :-)

[Ganymede12]

My Dad was amazed at how fast the moon "moves". I had my camcorder filming through my telescope and it didn't take long for the moon to be gone from the FoV!