One of the better moon photos I've seen

[gooseberry]

Came across this and thought people here might be interested in seeing this quite stunning photo of the moon.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16822681

 

[di0nysus]

amazing! thanks for sharing..need a telescope yeah...

 

[Francis247]

Very interesting. :thumbsup:
Thanks for sharing.

 

[ngebor]

wow... the moon is looked colourful... :bigeyes: how long do you think the focal length needed to shot this pics? Is it possible to shot with normal telelens, or should we use telescope?

 

[zcf]

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according to the owner reply

Thanks everyone.

Sorry, I should have posted exposure details before...

This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and converted and stitched together in Photoshop CS2. As you can see from the EXIF data, the exposures were each 1/5 second at ISO 100.

Though the moon is generally made of gray, dusty material it is very bright, photographically, since it is bathed in sunlight.

I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20.

Looking through the viewfinder I swept across the surface in a zig-zag fashion, trying for about 1/3 overlap between frames. I triggered the shutter with my TC80-N3 remote timer/controller. I did the stitching by hand in Photoshop.

Since it is tremendously downsized from the original mosaic, which was almost 40 megapixels, and was taken at the camera's most noise-free setting (ISO 100), the data is very accurate, and thus I was able to strongly increase the saturation via Photoshop's Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation function.

-Noel

 

[ngebor]

... what? 5000mm :bigeyes: ? and each exposure, moon seems bigger than the sensor frame, so he need to do zigzag multiple exposure to scan all moon's surface... :bigeyes:

but the result is realy beautiful, detail and accurate moon!!

 

[perspectives-act]

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according to the owner reply

:bigeyes: tks for sharing. If anyone going to do similar setup here, let me know, I will shoot u in action :bsmilie:

 

[Qazwer]

Solid! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Thanks for sharing.

 

[your18]

Thanks for sharing:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[mUshro0m]

one of the better??? i think its one of the best taken.

love the details. thanks for sharing the link.

 

[Drudkh]

I'm speechless! :thumbsup:

 

[hASHbrown_kopitiam]

wow...he use multiple shots of each moon n piece it together like jigsaw....:thumbsup:

 

[cerebrus]

:thumbsup: What to say.... speachless :bigeyes:

 

[lsisaxon]

wow... the moon is looked colourful... :bigeyes: how long do you think the focal length needed to shot this pics? Is it possible to shot with normal telelens, or should we use telescope?

I think 1000mm should do fine.

 

[ahMeng]

quoted from the photographer who took this stunning pic of the moon..

"I mounted my 20D to my Meade LX200 GPS UHTC 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope via my 2x Televue Powermate (a focal length doubler, similar to a teleconverter, which also serves to mate my camera to the 2" telescope eyepiece tube). Effective focal length was 5000mm f/20."

..page 3 of the thread.

 

[PnS]

Oh my God... was the blue colour reflected from sea on earth?

 

[retrok]

:bigeyes: tks for sharing. If anyone going to do similar setup here, let me know, I will shoot u in action :bsmilie:

You should keep a look out at Singastro.