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hulagirl

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Tonight we were out with the telescope, looking up at the stars and enjoying the beautiful air. ; My husband asked me to try taking a shot of the moon through the eyepiece of the telescope, with the 50mm wide open. ; I figured..well, what the heck. :) ; It's so beautiful hanging up there quietly in sliver mode...

It's not the sharpest or best photograph of the moon. ; But it will be a lovely record of a really nice evening. :star: ; 'Night all...

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That's fairly solid. ; I've seen some occasionally decent shots taken by pointing a point and shoot into a telescope, and there's a whole type of astro-photography that involves attaching a webcam to a telescope and recording video or a whole bunch of still images and combining them together using specialist software that can combine a whole bunch of average shots into one really good one.

But I don't believe I've seen much in the way of holding a DSLR up to an eyepiece. ; I'd never even tried it, it seemed like too difficult a job to get it lined up properly manually. ; I've got an adapter that lets me plug my camera right into a telescope, but so far my attempts at using it have been a failure. ; I'm going to work with my local astronomy club this year to try to improve on my results.

So.. well done.
 
That's actually surprisingly well done! ; I can get good results with a tripod and my 500mm lens, but didn't think you could get anything that clear holding a DSLR up to an eyepiece of a telescope!

Nice 'yellow moon' vibe too - making me think of Neville Brothers and my Tulane days cruising the levee on Saturday evening by Old Muddy.
 
Well done, Roni. ; It pays to try anything, no matter how ridiculous it seems.

I have an adapter that replaces the lens on my camera and slips right into the eyepiece holder of my telescope. ; This is known as "prime focus" astrophotography. ; However, to get the image to focus, I'd have to physically move the mirror closer to the camera. ; As a result, I've never had the nerve to try it. ; (My telescope is a 4 1/4 inch reflector bought from Edmund Scientific in 1967.)
 
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