First Moon pic

[gremlin750]

New scope (Skywatcher 150P) and just tried out some prime focus photography with my trusty old D70. First time and quite pleased with the result. 1/200 sec at ISO200 (plus a little tweaking/sharpening in PS Elements) for those who are interested. Took a few attempts to the exposure right. Looking forward to trying it out on other targets!

[sologuitarist61]

Excellent image with plenty of detail - that is a great 1st attempt

[Alien 13]

Great image, its allways special having your own pictures keep it up.

Alan

[gazza63]

Well done...Now ur gonna get the bug. 

[kaybee]

Very nice first image

~Kb

[maxheadroom]

That's a lovely image mate loads of detail and clear as a bell. I tried holding my smartphone to the EP tonight and got a couple that were 'ok'. As above, I've started looking at some proper equipment, I think that could be my savings gone lol

Jupiter didn't turn out so well

[happy-kat]

Nice focus on the moon on the first post and it's hard trying to hold a phone camera to take a snap great to get something and better Jupiter than my attempts

[Langy]

Great image.

That's the beauty of digital as you found out, plenty of trials before you get the right exposure, I did just the same a few days ago. However your image has more detail than mine as I struggled to get the focus. Well done.

[michaeldurban]

Nice pic !

The first one of the moon resembles mine..good detail

I had a first try as well..taken with my phone, SW 10", 25mm ED 60degr. plus ES 2x focal extender.

[gremlin750]

Thanks for all the positive feedback, folks. Just an observation on focussing (which was quite tricky) - the camera has a feature where you can zoom in on parts of the shot after it is taken and I used that to fine tune the focussing as I found it quite difficult through the camera eyepiece alone. I'd be interested to hear any other handy hints or tips for focussing a DSLR on prime focus.

[happy-kat]

My dslr is connected to my nexus 7 tablet and using dslr controller I get a much bigger live view with 2 zooms supported of 5x and 10x which helps getting focus with out contouring to look at the camera screen in live view.

[maxheadroom]

My dslr is connected to my nexus 7 tablet and using dslr controller I get a much bigger live view with 2 zooms supported of 5x and 10x which helps getting focus with out contouring to look at the camera screen in live view.

Do you know if you can connect a dslr to an iPad?

I have a habit of bricking laptops!

[happy-kat]

It is an android app but then I haven't checked apple's iTunes store. Oru laptop died so had to find a tablet solution.

[todd8137]

Great first image

Pat