BIG moon with refractor ED120 11April 2011

[luis]

BIG moon with refractor ED120

Refractor ED120 + DSLR 550

1 single jpeg

Filter IR/UV

Some turbulence specialy on Archimedes crater

Greetings from Portugal,

Luis Beja

[nightfisher]

luis, that not just big, dam near life size on my 14" notebook screen!

seriously good image up to usual standards, excellent focus control

[Gina]

Wish I could get focus like that!! Brilliant image Well done How did you manage such fine focus?

Regards

Gina

[kris h]

Another stunning moon image luis

[Takahashi]

Lovely pic Luis. I'm still stunned by the fact that you get this quality from a single dSLR "snap". Your skies must be stiller than a still thing in Stillsville.

[JonH]

Excellent tonal range and clarity again Luis, good stuff!

[G0JVK]

Another stunning shot of the moon Luis your pictures never cease to amaze me with their quality, superb no other words for them in my humble opinion well done once again sir

[neil phillips]

This is where DSLR cameras excel, looks good.

[prbaxter]

Good job I'm not on a dial-up connection!

Nice photo! I love the hi-res images on this site.

Tell me please... how did you rig your camera up to your scope? do you use some sort of mount? I'm concered that those cameras can be a bit heavy to go hanging it off the focuser.

[luis]

Thanks all!

Wish I could get focus like that!! Brilliant image Well done How did you manage such fine focus?

Hi Gina,

The focuser of ED120 is easy to control the focus. Also this refractor is easy to make a clear focus.

prbaxter,

To connect the camera on the scope, I use a adapter canon-T and T to 1.25" with the IR/UV on it. The ED120 focuser has connection 1.25" and 2".

The weight of this camera is in the limit for this focuser. I could buy a better focuser, perhaps in the future.

Regards,Luis

[Horus]

Wow.....yes how and what did you capture that ? It's took ages to load on my ipad2

[luis]

Wow.....yes how and what did you capture that ? It's took ages to load on my ipad2

Hi Horus,

Its big indeed for an ipad2.

Nowdays the DSLRs give incredible big images, and this 550D is no exception. But Really Really BIG are the images produced with a camera I´d like to have in the future: the Canon EOS 5D Mark II 21 megapixel CMOS sensor full frame 35mm. Curiosly, I don´t see moon photos made with that full fram camera, it should give amazing results!...I guess

[PaulG]

Thanks all!

Hi Gina,

The focuser of ED120 is easy to control the focus. Also this refractor is easy to make a clear focus.

Regards,Luis

Luis

How do you adjust the focus, live view, laptop connection or manual through camera view finder ?.

Paul

[Pete Presland]

very nice!

[ollypenrice]

I assumed this was a fast frame camera mosaic when I saw it. I'm stunned!!

Olly

[eliot]

Fabulous shot

[Porl]

that is amazingly crisp and sharp!

[ykket]

that looks awesome!

[carastro]

I've got an ED120 and DSLR 450D, what settings did you use?

Also interested to find out your focus method.

Carole

[luis]

I've got an ED120 and DSLR 450D, what settings did you use?

Also interested to find out your focus method.

Thanks for all the coments.

Hi Carole,

I used a barlow 2x, it reduced alot the F, from 7.5 to 15, that complicated keeping fast exposure time, so I used 1/20 sec, and iso 100 in jpeg.

The focuser of ED120 is easy to control the focus. I used the liveview to get the photo.

Regards,

Luis Beja

[astropete]

as usual another fantastic picture of the moon. so sharp, the detail is A1. please keep posting these fantastic pictures.

peter.

[bm1980]

Very good for a single image, keep up the good work

Regards

Ben

[chiltonstar]

Wow!

Chris

[Astrokev]

Wow indeed! Stunning capture.

[iwatkins]

As everyone else has said: WOW.

That is truely awesome for a single shot.

Cheers

Ian