The Moon

[DemonicOmelette]

Here's a couple more moon photos. Taken afocally, holding my Olympus e400 up to the EP. 32mm plossl for the first couple, 10mm through a 2x barlow for the close-ups. Shooting through the high magnification is hard! But I think I got the focus pretty close! I think the close-up is Tycho....

EDIT: No, I don't think I used a barlow on the closeup...

[Imahumanbeing]

Great pictures! It is hard getting focused pictures when holding the camera up to the eyepiece so you've done really well to get them.

All the best

Jamie

[jgs001]

You've done well. It's hard getting the focus right. That is Tycho.

[PaulG]

Well done

Free hand afocal photography is quite challanging getting exposure, camera angles and focus just right.

Paul

[DemonicOmelette]

I found focusing was easy enough, it was getting lined up that was difficult, especially at higher magnifications I also tried using a tripod to hold the camera, but that was an abject failure due to the fact that the tripod is really not very good.... So I am going to try to borrow a mate's tripod, and see if it works better, so I can get a bit longer exposure on the close-ups... Although, I kinda like the dark, almost spooky image in teh third photo....

[Imahumanbeing]

You could try one of these Astro Engineering PH047 Ultra Afocal Digital Camera Support I've got one and it does the job well.

[DemonicOmelette]

Won't work with my DSLR, though, because it will be too heavy for my mount... Might get one to try with my compact, but I don't think I can do things like long exposure or anything with it...