My first attempt at the moon

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

This is my 1st attempt at photographing the moon, unfortunately I don’t have a DSLR or CCD camera I only have a cheap 2MP mobile phone camera which I used a focal with a 41 mm Panoptic, 2x Powermate on a 12” Meade LX200.

Just as I was setting up the neighbors up the road decided to light a huge fire to keep warm outside, it destroyed the quality of viewing, but I decided to have a go at a few shots of the moon anyway before I had to pack up from too much smoke.

I know they are a bit rough, I hope one day soon to have a real camera and have a real go at astrophotography, I have been considering starting with a DSLR either Canon EOS 550D or Sony Nex 5n or similar then an auto guider and EQ wedge or de rotator and field reducer ………etc,etc, $$$$....I think I will still need to wait a while. $$$$..

Thanks for looking.

1. Moon 4th Aug 2012 (Waning gibbous 95% at 74x mag)

2. Mare Crisium at148x mag

3. Craters Furnerius, Petavius, Vendelinus, Langrenus at 148x mag

[multiweb (Marc)]

Well they're excellent. Nice work. You don't need a DSLR.

[iceman (Mike)]

Well done, great efforts for the phone camera!

[Colin_Fraser]

What great pics. I especially like the first one. Really nice

[Scorpius51 (John)]

Well done Wayne - not too shabby at all for a mobile phone at afocal! Who needs an astro-cam? Nice pics.

Cheers
John

[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Thanks for the encouragement, I tried again using Registax 6 to stack 20 frames from the mobile phone camera, it certainly makes a difference.