Lunar Snapshots

While on my way home last sunday, I saw the moon glowing low in the horizon. Upon arriving, I quickly set up my 60mm refractor to get some shots of the moon. Upon looking at the eyepiece, I got excited again at looking at this heavenly body after ignoring it for a few months. The moon really never fails to amaze anyone no matter how many times it is viewed.

Here are the photos that I took using the afocal method. All photos were taken handheld using my Canon A495 digital camera since my tripod was doing some work back at the church. Telescope used is a 60mm equatorially mounted refractor and a 22mm Ramsden Eyepiece. Enjoy!

Lunar Photography

Here is another set of lunar pictures. The night was rather clear and the moon was high up in the sky. I took the opportunity to capture some images. It was hard to get focus because I was constantly adjusting the camera, its tripod and the telescope at the same time. Every time I get a good lock on the focus, the moon have already drifted off the field of view so I had to multi task to get decent photos. I used the same method described in my previous post of Lunar Photography. 

Equipment : 60 mm equatorially mounted refractor with 22 and 9 mm huygenian eyepieces and a Nikon Coolpix L16 digital point and shoot camera.

These second set of photos were taken using my 4.5 inch newtonian with a 22 mm and 9 mm Huygenian eyepiece.

Photos of the moon

I gave another try in taking photos of the moon early this evening. Without much further comment, here they are



























Here are the sharpest photos that I got so far. In fact, their file names are "moon sharp, moon sharp 2 and moon sharp 3" when I saved them











I cannot overstate the fact that looking through the eyepiece is a totally different experience. I used a 22 mm eyepiece with a 2x barlow for these shots. While on live observation, I can go as far as a 6 mm eyepiece with the 2x barlow.