Moon- Thanks Rog

[anna]

With much thanks to Rog for his help and useful info. Here is our first attempt at capturing that fanastic view:-

no problems, very nice for first attempt. You can try holding the camera close to the lense you will be suprised how good the images you can get of the moon doing this.

by the way if you have questions I am quite happy to help out where I can

[rictus01]

Cool shot.

[_Stretchie_]

A big thunbs up

Originally Posted by Rog

no problems, very nice for first attempt. You can try holding the camera close to the lense you will be suprised how good the images you can get of the moon doing this.

by the way if you have questions I am quite happy to help out where I can

We have the T-Adapter for the camera (Nikon DLSR), so all we need is to pop it in the eyepiece holder and wait for half an hour for the shake to disappear! Remote shutter and mirror lock-up /delay are really in order for this one...

That one was taken with the D60 at ISO800 and 1/100 shutter speed which is really too low for this long a "lens", hence the slight blurring. ISO800 is also a bit noisy on the D60, so a bit of noise reduction was applied, taking a bit more detail with it... I'll try the D90 one of these nights, it'll easily go up to ISO1600 before noise begins being a real issue.

Once again, thanks for the help.

wow! thats fantastic

Nice try ... what manual lens was used? Next time be sure you use spot metering as the centre weighted setting will not expose well. I have got pics of the moon in the past using a Pentax k100d and an old Tokina 400mm manual lens. Got some deent pics with that but i have been waiting for a chance to see how the D90 will do with the 70-300VR lens and as you said the D90 high iso capabilites are brilliant.

How about this for iso 3200 straight out of camera!!!

[Quiff Wichard]

me confused>?

an Anna and Filipe amalgamtion? shared pic and the use of "we" .

have I missed a marriage?

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

me confused>?

an Anna and Filipe amalgamtion? shared pic and the use of "we" .

have I missed a marriage?

Yes you have Quiff old man, do try and keep up.








You and i were married last weekend in Vegas, remember. I wore a suit and you wore that dress with the built in suspenders


Anyway, gret pic anna/fillipie. Nice to see a bit of the moon as most peoples first attempts always tend to be at full moon, which is pretty in itself of course but this pic i like a lot.

Originally Posted by TC3

Nice try ... what manual lens was used? Next time be sure you use spot metering as the centre weighted setting will not expose well.

Erm... we used a telescope Celestron AstroMaster 114EQ, with the T-Adapter and T-Ring for the Nikon D60. Fully manual exposure, focusing, composition and blurring due to tripod shake (the thing doesn't have VR, you see...)! No cropping needed, that was exactly how it came out of the camera.

I have got pics of the moon in the past using a Pentax k100d and an old Tokina 400mm manual lens. Got some deent pics with that but i have been waiting for a chance to see how the D90 will do with the 70-300VR lens and as you said the D90 high iso capabilites are brilliant.

The D90 is absolutely remarkable at high ISOs for a camera in that price range, and coupled with the 70-300VR should give you excellent performance. I have the 70-300G version, which is only decent as far as optics go (suffers from really bad fringing in high contrast edges ), can't wait to have the spare money to go for the VR version as the optics are said to be worlds apart from the crappy G version.

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

me confused>?

an Anna and Filipe amalgamtion? shared pic and the use of "we" .

I guess you can say that, yes

have I missed a marriage?

Not yet