First go at imaging the Moon.

[PatrickO]

I'm keen to get into lunar imaging. Especially high res images of individual features.

Anyway, this is a shot taken with a Nikon D7200 and 200-500 lens at 500mm. Just a single image edited with Lightroom.

I'm picking up a used Starwatcher 130M tomorrow. Any advice/suggestions most welcome.

[Alkaid]

Just slightly out of focus.  A good way to ensure focus is to have camera in manual mode, focus by hand on the lens.  But to achieve crisp focus, use the zoom in button for the screen.  This magnifies the focus error, then you adjust till crisp.  Then zoom back out and take the shot.

 

Cheers Steve

[PatrickO]

8 hours ago, Alkaid said:

Just slightly out of focus.  A good way to ensure focus is to have camera in manual mode, focus by hand on the lens.  But to achieve crisp focus, use the zoom in button for the screen.  This magnifies the focus error, then you adjust till crisp.  Then zoom back out and take the shot.

 

Cheers Steve

Thanks Steve. Good advice.