First successful moon shot

[gman]

Hi all,

I took this picture on the 3rd of May using a canon eos 350d on the back of a zenithstar 70. I spent most of the session trying to find the sweet spot for focusing and was lucky enough to come away with a couple of half decent images. I was pretty pleased with this one in particular. The shot settings were ISO 100 and 1/500s shutter speed.

Gareth

[Sam]

Excellent image Gareth, very clear!

Sam

[Doc]

I agree very sharp and clear. Excellent shot Gareth.

[Psychobilly]

Very nice Gareth well worth it

One method I use especially for earlier almost daylight shots is to estimate the best focus then back it off slightly then keep taking shots whilst making tiny adjustments to the focus...fairly straightforward on a 10:1 crayford focuser.

Peter...

[drummerp]

Very nice pic from the Canon I have the same camera and haven't yet been able to capture an image from it as clear as this one.

Cheers

neil

[ashenlight]

Lovely image Gareth, very sharp Look forward to seeing some more in the future.

Amanda

[Jarndyce]

Nice one Gareth.

I'm still strugling to get a nice crisp focus on Luna. As soon as I achieve it, the clouds roll in....

Going to try again tonight....

[ashenlight]

I'm hoping to try some luna photography soon too Jarndyce. It'll be afocal though - never done it before so if I get something half as crisp as Gareth's shot I'll be very pleased. Think I'm gonna wait a while though til there's some nice crater action at the terminator!