My first moon pic

matt · #1 07-11-2005, 09:25 PM

Let's hope this works ... and my first ever astropix makes their way onto IIS

This was taken last night around 6.45pm.

The "blue" one is the original. The other is with a very small amount of reworking in photoshop.

The seeing was poor (hazy and windy) and I'm still learning the capabilities of the camera which was used afocal.

Matt

matt · #2 07-11-2005, 09:29 PM

PS ... Definitely gotta work on that oversaturation at the limb.

The Sony Cybershot P-73 doesn't offer a lot of manual control, but there's a little amount of "play".

Cheers

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #3 07-11-2005, 09:30 PM

That is excellent Matt!

But 3/4 of the Moon is missing LOL!

You must have a good camera. The surface detail is very clear.

Mick (Michael) · #4 07-11-2005, 09:31 PM

Nice work Matt

RB (Andrew) · #5 07-11-2005, 09:41 PM

Matt that's excellent work.

Well done.

Wombat_In_Space (Darren) · #6 07-11-2005, 09:44 PM

Nice shot better than some of my moon shots. Keep up the good work.

LT_Ng · #7 07-11-2005, 10:06 PM

Very nice image. Taken with DSLR? Canon?

LT

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 07-11-2005, 10:22 PM

Hey Matt, that's a nice image.

Bird

asimov (John) · #9 07-11-2005, 11:22 PM

That's a nice result Matt.

davidpretorius · #10 07-11-2005, 11:35 PM

good focus, what zoom can you get to???

what is the slowest shutter speed so to speak you can get out of your digicam??

matt · #11 08-11-2005, 05:10 AM

Thanks guys. Your encouragement is much appreciated.

Very funny Ken

I think the moon was reluctant to reveal any more of itself after so many weeks of being shrouded, what with the weather. Very modest!

LT: Is a Sony Cybershot P-73 4.1 megapixel digicam.

david p: The cam has a very modest 3x digital zoom. I think it offers a 1/4 or 1/8 sec as its longest exposure, but I'll look into that.

Was shot afocal through 25ml super plossl ... with cam at approx 2x... so roughly 80x mag.

matt · #12 08-11-2005, 05:50 AM

Oops ...

That should read 3x optical zoom .... 10x digital

Pretty modest features, really.

I forget who, but there's someone in this forum using the P-100 ... which is the slightly bigger brother of the camera I've got.

Cheers

matt · #13 08-11-2005, 06:01 AM

How could I forget?!?!?!?

Iceman has the P100. Sorry Mike!

Maybe you can answer the question Mike. What's the slowest shutter speed we can achieve with those Cybershot digicams???

Cheers

iceman (Mike) · #14 08-11-2005, 06:16 AM

Not sure about yours, but with mine, I can go from 1/1000th of a sec, to 30 seconds by using the manual mode.

Great shot Matt!

matt · #15 08-11-2005, 06:22 AM

Cheers Mike

I know mine can achieve 1/1000th ... so fingers crossed it's also good for the longer 30sec end of the scale.

Mike ... do you have other examples of pix you've taken using yours, with what settings you used to achieve thos pix???

Would be a handy reference.

I'm quite surprised at how well they perform, for what they are.

matt · #16 08-11-2005, 06:27 AM

Confirmed...

1/1000th to 30 sec in manual mode.

There you go

iceman (Mike) · #17 08-11-2005, 06:29 AM

Here's my most recent afocal stuff..

Lunar eclipse

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ead.php?t=4816

oh and the venus shots from the star camp. both threads have details about exposure times.

matt · #18 08-11-2005, 06:44 AM

Very nice moon shots Mike.

Haven't worked the camera in multi burst yet. Will have a crack at it and process in registax ... for a laff

33South (Chris) · #19 08-11-2005, 08:50 AM

Hey Matt,
Nailed the focus pretty well, theres a lot of detail in that little image.

Chris

matt · #20 08-11-2005, 09:23 AM

Thanks Chris

Let's hope that's just the beginning!

Still plenty to learn, but what fun