My best Moon photo yet

[rmcpb]

Taken about an hour ago before the mossies carried me away.

Handheld afocal, 8" f6 dob, Meade 12.4mm eyepiece, Olympus 3.2Mp Mu camera.

Really happy to get the crater within a crater - Sacrobosco.

Cheers :drink:

[asimov]

Very nice Rob. :)

[ballaratdragons]

Coooooool Rob!

Don't ya just love the terminator for astropics!

[rmcpb]

Yeh Ken, no matter how much you look at the moon there is always something different to see.

[davidpretorius]

i saw a crater in a crater on monday night. the moon is great!

[RB]

Great shot Rob.
Well done.

[67champ]

Rob, way to go!

I'll keep checking on you....

dt

[iceman]

Well done Rob. Does your camera have manual controls for exposure or shutter speed?

[rmcpb]

Mike,

I simply turn off the flash and shoot. Almost all of the photos suffer from movement as the shutter speed is too slow so I am saving my pocket money for one of those mounts that attach to your eyepiece. That combined with the remote shutter feature of these cameras should stop that problem.

Cheers

[matt]

Rob

Astro Engineering make a nice little adaptor which I've used for afocal photography quite successfully, especially on the moon.

They're for sale at myAstroShop for about $80. See link at left.

Good value I reckon;)