Moon Imaging with DSLR ?

[gfletcher]

Hi Guys

My son is interested in imaging the moon with his Canon 350D.

He will be imaging thriugh an F5 150mm newtonian at prime focus.

Is there any info/software that advises on:

Which ISO

What shutter speeds for differing moon phases.

etc, etc

thanks

Graham

[simon84]

Hi Graham,

I did an hour of this recently with a 70% full moon. I started at iso 200 and 1/500 sec, previewed the image on the camera and then started adjusting to suit. I've not tried imaging a crescent moon but I'd imagine you would need to slow the camera down quite a bit. I took this on my f5 Newt at prime awell.

This is what I got with the above settings.

[simon84]

Hi again,

Just found this on the net, may be helpful. Its set for f16 so for f5 I think you just times the speeds by 3 to get f5 settings.

HTH.

[gfletcher]

Thanks Simon

Graham