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Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:15:43 GMT

Anybody else shoot the Moon?

EOS 1D Mk IV with 600mm Sigma lens. f11, 1/400, ISO 400.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:26:04 GMT

One more boring Moon shot. This is a 150% crop, extreme crop, showing the detail of the Moon's surface. Just look how rough and irregular it is. Many, many mountains and valleys.
Canon 1D Mk IV with Sigma 600mm lens. f8, 1/500, ISO 400.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

TCampbell — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:00:00 GMT

Great shots, Ernie (and nice timing on that jet!)

I wasn't out this weekend. I went on Friday for an outreach (but I typically never do astrophotography at an outreach event and I had the wrong scope for it anyway. I had my larger 14" SCT -- it has a focal length of just over 3500mm and I'd have to take a 6 panel mosaic to get the moon with that scope. Normally when I shoot the moon I use my refractor.

On thursday night I did take a moon photo (it wasn't full yet). I was down at the observatory (not my own scopes) but I wasn't very happy with the seeing conditions. It was really windy. I was checking out a globular cluster (Messier 15 in Pegasus - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_15) and I was watching a star near the edge of the field going sharp and fuzzy over and over again -- so I knew it would be a miserable night for imaging. Anyway, I did shoot just one photo of the moon just for kicks and, as expected, it's not my sharpest image of the moon but was probably as good as it was going to get on that night.

A better result could have been produced if I had taken several dozen shots and stacked them but that wasn't the goal for the evening.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

RobertTheFat — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:14:37 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
Anybody else shoot the Moon?

EOS 1D Mk IV with 600mm Sigma lens. f11, 1/400, ISO 400.

Very nice. I just showed it to my wife Martha (also a photographer), and she agrees. That's not the first moon shot I've seen with a plane crossing it, but you managed to catch the plane in a particularly favorable position.

I didn't try (and don't plan to tonight either). All the moon shots I've ever taken were pretty routine. I'll leave it to those with more skill and patience than I have.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:18:56 GMT

I did a three exposure stack but I didn't think it was any better than the single shot. Here it is.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:44:02 GMT

In spite of the weatherman's forecast of clear skies for the Super Moon, this is how the morning was.

It did clear up by the afternoon with only wisps of clouds here and there. The clouds stayed away while we shot the Moon. It's better to be lucky then good!

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

Waddizzle — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:00:15 GMT

I took shots Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings, all from different locations. Sunday, I was on Long Island Sound looking almost due East. This means the Connecticut coast was to my left, Long Island to my right, and nothing but water directly in front of me.

Surprisingly, the Moon did not appear at the scheduled moonrise time. Instead it slowly faded into existence about 10 minutes later. This shot was taken about 15 minutes after the official moonrise, when the Moon could seen above the haze on the horizon. There was a color gradient in the atmosphere near the horizon as the sun was setting.

This was shot with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 100mm. I was on a hill, about 100 feet above the water.

I hung around for an hour to catch an airplane, but never did. Here's a black and white shot with a 7D2 and the Sigma 150-600mm.

Plenty of airplanes in the air taking off and landing from NYCs two major airports, but no transits across the Moon. I packed in after an hour.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

Waddizzle — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:33:51 GMT

Here's a color shot taken several hours after moonrise on Saturday night. I had to wait for clouds to clear, and that was briefly. I got lucky. You can see how the left edge is not quite full yet. Shot with a 6D and an EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM.

Here's what it looked like half the time from sundown until well past midnight. Most of the time it was hidden behind clouds.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 01:47:33 GMT

This is a Waning Gibbous. It is the start of the demise of our Super Moon. It will eventually turn into a Waning Crescent and than a New Moon. If you missed this Super Moon you are going to have to wait 18 years for another.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

pris796 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:52:01 GMT

1/60

F/5.6

ISO 800

300 MM

pris796

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

kvbarkley — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:07:47 GMT

Lot of CA there. Is this a Canon lens? Does the T3 have Chromatic Abberation correction? You might want to turn it on.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:24:19 GMT

That is about the toughest shot you can do. A bright light source behind some tree branches.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

pris796 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:30:36 GMT

kvbarkley,

Yes this is a Canon Lens 70-300, I am checking my manual, I don't see anything on this defect. Are you talking about the green around the Moon?

pris796

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

Waddizzle — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:31:14 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
That is about the toughest shot you can do. A bright light source behind some tree branches.

I tried it, and blew it. I got the focus on the branches, but not the Moon, which was overexposed. I think the camera's metering system was fooled somewhat.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

kvbarkley — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:34:03 GMT

No, the fact that the branches look magenta.

The T3 does not offer that. You might be able to fix it in Canon's DPP.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

pris796 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:38:50 GMT

I did give the picture some more light to bring out the branches. This is how the picture really look.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

Waddizzle — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:40:35 GMT

@pris796 wrote:
kvbarkley,
Yes this is a Canon Lens 70-300, I am checking my manual, I don't see anything on this defect. Are you talking about the green around the Moon?

pris796

That's about what you should expect from that standard kit lens. You might clean some of it in post, but you have pink and green.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

pris796 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:53:15 GMT

Thank You Waddizzle.

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

pris796 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:27:14 GMT

ebiggs1,

Did you see the replies, I have green and pink in the Moon, I will try again for a better shot.

pris796

Re: Anybody else shoot the Moon?

ebiggs1 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:44:08 GMT

Shooting the Moon through objects can be a tough dog. Sometimes you ge tlucky.

But never forget one thing! Great photos are made in post, not in the camera. If you have two main most important things it is going to be even harder. For instance twigs and the Moon, one or the other will suffer.

I am glad to help if you need any tips.