The Moon
INTRODUCTION
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When we first began to take photographs, it was pretty simple stuff. Just holding the Kodak Camera up to the eyepiece. ANYONE can do this. You do not need a special camera, nor an adapter, and it's a safe thing to try. The advantage of using a digital camera under these circumstances, is, of course, that you don't need to pay for the images to be printed in order to see if they worked out, and you can take lots of photos, to try to get a good one. Not only that, any atlas of the Moon will allow you to identify any craters and other features. Try it.
NOTE: if you are going to do this kind of stuff, don't'; take photographs during the full Moon, because you will not get the striking differences in the craters, etc. It will all appear flat, because the sun will be directly overhead on the moon, and no shadows will appear.
NEW IMAGES
METHOD: Meade ETX 105, Kodak DX4330, Televue adapter, 30mm Eyepiece. Shot was taken at "sports" mode. No further processing.
METHOD:Meade ETX 105, Kodak DX4330, Televue adapter, 30mm Eyepiece. Shot was taken at "sports" mode but Optical zoom was at maximum (3x). No further processing.
METHOD: Meade ETX 105, Kodak DX4330, Televue adapter, 30mm Eyepiece. Shot was taken at "sports" mode but Optical zoom was at maximum (3x). No further processing. Just to show you can take an interesting photograph of the Moon during the day.
The Moon and Venus with a 35mm Minolta
METHOD: Minolta 35mm mounted on a tripod. Kodak 400 Film. Exposure for about 2 seconds. This was done to overexpose the sunlit side of the moon, bringing out the "Earthshine" on the unlit portion, which was particularly obvious that evening. This also allowed us to take an excellent photograph with Venus in the frame.
The Moon, with Mare Serenitatis and Vales Alpes 27th May 2004
METHOD: MEADE ETX 105, LPI. This image was as it appeared on the laptop
screen as the picture was taken.
The Moon, a mosaic 27th May 2004
METHOD: MEADE ETX 105, LPI. This image was prepared by taking 3 images
and stitching them together in Photoshop.
NEW IMAGES
Copernicus
METHOD: MEADE ETX 105, LPI. Photoshop was used to sharpen the image.
Tycho
METHOD: MEADE ETX 105, LPI.
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