Single shot moon images - thread

Alan Clark · Apr 14, 2024

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1/500 sec
ISO 12800

Photographed with a Celestron 6SE telescope, so a focal length of 1500mm.

Alan Clark · Apr 17, 2024

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1/30 sec
ISO 100

Shot with a Celestron 6SE telescope, focal length 1500mm.

FowlersFreeTime · Apr 20, 2024

Tonight's waxing gibbous moon, SOOC with heavy crop.

ILCE-6700
E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
289.0 mm
ƒ/11
1/80 sec
ISO 100

Alan Clark · Apr 20, 2024

The Moon just a few hours earlier. Celestron 6SE telescope.

Ralph · Apr 20, 2024

I have not taken a shot of the moon in a lot of years.
Looked out the back door and there was a half or close to it moon.
So now I just have to work out the edit on them and maybe next time get the tripod out.

ILCE-7M3
150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports 021
600.0 mm
ƒ/6.3
1/4000 sec
ISO 800

FowlersFreeTime · Apr 24, 2024

3 days ago, waxing, almost full, probably my sharpest moon-shot to date:

E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
300.0 mm
ƒ/6.3000001907349
1/500 sec
ISO 250

Tonight's full moon... meh? hard to nail manual focus with the A6700's low resolution screen and viewfinder, so I think its not as sharp as it could be due to focus:

E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
300.0 mm
ƒ/6.3000001907349
1/500 sec
ISO 100

I'm also starting to think that full moons are overrated: it looks flat and featureless compared to a few days ago.

Thad E Ginathom · Apr 24, 2024

FowlersFreeTime said:
hard to nail manual focus with the A6700's low resolution screen and viewfinder,

Do you find focus magnify to be of any help?

Super shots!

FowlersFreeTime · Apr 24, 2024

Thad E Ginathom said:
Do you find focus magnify to be of any help?

Super shots!

focus magnify and focus peaking are absolute necessities! Without them, these moon shots would be glowing orbs of unfocused light

evacguy · May 2, 2024

I arrived at my hotel in Oklahoma City midnight on Sunday 7 April after about 23 hours travel time. Got up the next day at about 11:00 and headed down to Myriad Botatanical Gardens to enjoy the eclipse. Unfortunately, I didn't have eclipse glasses or solar filters for my lenses, so couldn't really photograph the eclipse. Luckily, park officals were giving out eclipse glasses and I met a photographer in the park that was well equipped to photograph the eclipse. I photographed images of the eclipse from his flip screen. It was pretty impressive, even though it was only about 95%. Temperature must have dropped by 5C at the maximum.

The time each photograph was taken is in the file name. My sequence starts at 12:10:46 and ends at 13:01:07 which was the eclispe maximum. In the third image you can see a large sun spot just above the centre of the sun.

12:10:46

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/22
1/80 sec
ISO 640

12:15:41

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/500 sec
ISO 100

12:16:02
In this image you can see a large sun spot, just above the centre of the sun.

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/640 sec
ISO 100

12:27:04

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/400 sec
ISO 100

12:42:40

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/250 sec
ISO 100

12:47:36

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/160 sec
ISO 100

13:01:07

ILCE-7M4
FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/80 sec
ISO 100

evacguy · May 2, 2024

Luckily, it was a gorgeous day for the eclipse, and so there were a lot of folks out in the park. We even had a lot of local TV out to shoot the eclipse, or people shooting the eclipse to be precise.