Finally got the moon

[tsuken]

My son (7 months) woke us this morning at 4:50am. Not so good, but when he seemed to go back to sleep I decided to head out to catch the moon - which I hadn't yet seen thru my scope, as it was rising too late (given the waking patterns of the aforementioned son ;) ).

Started to get set up, but he was unfortunately not settling back to sleep. He eventually went at 5:45. I decided I'd have a crack anyway, figuring that it should be bright enough to see quite well despite the daylight. My 2 year old daughter was awake by that time, so she was rocking around outside with me. Shortly she was saying "moon" and pointing it out in the sky :D She wanted to look thru the telescope but couldn't quite get it together. Never mind; plenty of time for that later. :)

Once again I tried to capture the view - with what I see is called an afocal technique (rather than "holding-point-and-click-camera-up-to-the-eyepiece" technique :P ). The result is attached, and I'm actually rather pleased with it. :)

[Blue Skies]

Well done! I've taken some nice shots of the moon that way, its a quick way of getting a pic. I did find that it is more difficult to do when the moon is less than 40% or so as the camera has trouble detecting where the moon is. Keep trying, especially when it's fully dark, for an even better one.

[Louwai]

Here's one of my efforts using the exact same technique.
A little dark around the bottom edge but I thought it was pretty good.

[tsuken]

That's beautiful, Louwai :) I'm a big fan of the moon. ;)

What sort of camera was that with? Adjustable exposure time etc? That's probably the biggest lack with my little camera currently. ... So the daytime view probably helped the photo, actually 8)