23 sept 2005 - moon and pleades

[RapidEye]

I like the 2nd one best Hough - you can see quite a bit of detail near the terminator on the moon. Good work.

One thing I noticed, you only had it set for ISO200 - you might want to bump it to 800 or 1600 next time: You'll get a slightly grainer shot, but you get a loooooooooot faster shutter speed, which will cut down on the trails.

Maybe you can talk Ice into doin' some of his PhotoShop magic on it

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by RapidEye

One thing I noticed, you only had it set for ISO200 - you might want to bump it to 800 or 1600 next time: You'll get a slightly grainer shot, but you get a loooooooooot faster shutter speed, which will cut down on the trails.

I don't know about that RapidEye,
I tried @ 1600 ISO and got the moon but no stars.
I wanted to achieve exactly what you just suggested, but no success.

I think Houghy got the ISO right, it's just that the moon was way too full to expose any stars properly.

Cheers

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Rocket Boy

I don't know about that RapidEye,
I tried @ 1600 ISO and got the moon but no stars.
I wanted to achieve exactly what you just suggested, but no success.

I think Houghy got the ISO right, it's just that the moon was way too full to expose any stars properly.

Cheers

quite correct RB, a higher iso would have resulted in no stars becausethe moon would expose heaps quicker. If I had it on a mount i would have even changed the f ratio a bit too.

[RapidEye]

Hmmm sounds counter-intuative...
You are correct that going with a faster ISO will expose the moon faster, but it will also expose the stars faster as well. You might not have seen them because they didn't trail enough at the faster shutter speed.

Different cameras respond to ISO settings differently - give it a whirl at ISO 400 or 800 if 1600 didn't work well.