The full Moon with a Deepsky RC

[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

The Full Moon was stopping me from taking the image I wanted to take so I thought I'd take a image of it. Done with a Deepsky intruments 250mm f7 RC and a Sbig camera through a Blue filter. exposure was 0.02 second one only. Would be improved I guess with some staking but deepsky is my thing. Focus was a touch off I think.

[Dennis]

Nice work Ken. It’s not often that I see an SBIG camera pointed at our bright neighbour!

Cheers

Dennis

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Detail is excellent there Ken.
Well done.

[BerrieK]

Stunning.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Lovely detail Ken.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

How did you do this Ken? Every time I point my ST-8 at the moon I get an over-blown mess - even at the camera's fastest exposure (0.11 sec). I could stack filters on I suppose... or wait for an STL-series machine with faster shutter speed.

[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

Chris, the STL11000 has qe of less then 50% which helps and to that a a blue filter and a shutter and to can get down to 0.02 of a sec. This image is half size as well the full looks good even if I do say so myself.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Lovely sharp image Ken.

Very nice.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by KenGee

Chris, the STL11000 has qe of less then 50% which helps and to that a a blue filter and a shutter and to can get down to 0.02 of a sec. This image is half size as well the full looks good even if I do say so myself.

Thanks Kenny - and yes, 1/50th is much faster than 1/10th.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Lovely image Ken,

Definitely worth the effort.
I think this a one of the best examples of a full Moon image that I have seen.

Cheers
Trevor

[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

Coming from you Trevor I'll take that thanks, Heard you on the radio the other day well done.
@ Chris np BTW I just reread my post I didn't read what I typed, ust been having a bad day. Should have said. "Chris, the STL11000 has qe of less then 50% which helps add to that a blue filter, a shutter and an exposure that can get down to 0.02 of a sec. This image is half size as the full frame, looks good even if I do say so myself." Oh well glad you understood what I meant to say. A good old neutral density filter would do the trick best, but I don't recall seeing a 2 inch version around.

[nightsky]

Originally Posted by Quark

Lovely image Ken,

Definitely worth the effort.
I think this a one of the best examples of a full Moon image that I have seen.

Cheers
Trevor

G'Day
I second that,great detail
Cheers
Arthur