EOS Rebel T7 Images Look Too Far Away

[booley]

my pictures aren't coming out right what am i doing wrong? and the time is 24 hour not 12

this is from my Fujifilm 18mp 50zoom
this is form my Fujifilm 18mp 50zoom

next three are from my New Canon EOS Rebel T7
next three are from my New Canon EOS Rebel T7

with lens 300 and it was on 300
with lense 300 and it was on 300

lens up to 300 zoom
lense up to 300zoom

[booley]

Ok thank you

[jrhoffman75]

Your last image is pretty close. The moon is illuminated by the sun, just like a subject on earth. 

A target setting would be camera in M mode, Av=11, Tv=125, ISO=100. This is sometimes known as the Loony 11 Rule. If you are trying to handhold then Tv=500 and Av=8 and ISO=400. Tweak as necessary. 

Also, focusing can be difficult. In good light, set lens to MF and manually focus on a distant object. Once you have good focus use a small piece of gaffer tape or masking tape to lock the focus ring. 

[booley]

Thak

nk you

[wq9nsc]

As John stated, a high magnification lens is quite expensive but the 150-600mm "super zoom" glass isn't horribly priced and I bought one last summer as one of my hiking lenses and I was very impressed with the performance given that it is a fraction of the cost of my Canon L series primes.  600mm on you APS-C sensor size camera provides decent magnification so you won't have to crop as much.  As others noted, you also have to nail the exposure and I would go with manually set exposure for the moon.

Some examples, the first photo is with the expensive Canon EF 800 f5.6 lens which still required a lot of cropping, the second and third are from a Celestron CPC-1100 HD telescope.

Rodger