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The full moon is probably the easiest thing to get a good picture of. It is a sun lit object that is bright enough you don't need long exposures, so tracking is not a concern. In fact it is so bright that you have to be careful not to over expose it. This is a single exposure done by shooting through an eye piece:
This was done the same way. I'm sure everyone has seen the moon look this color due to the weather before:
The moon and the planets all travel in a narrow band of the sky, and occasionally a planet will be near the moon enabling you to get both in a picture. This is the moon and jupiter. Jupiter actually passed behind the moon the night this was taken and I tryed to get a picture of it just as it was going behind the moon, but the clouds did not co-operate.
This picture was taken as the moon was rising. It was still behind the trees, but it looked interesting so I took a picture:
Shooting close-ups of the moon is not much more difficult as long as the sky conditions are fairly good. Vibration will show up more at higher magnifications, but as long as you are careful not to induce vibration in the scope it is not to difficult. This picture was shot through a 12.5 mm Huygens eye piece, the type that people are often warned against using:
Sometimes you catch areas of the moon that are in daylight while the area around it is dark. This mountain is 6,000 feet high, which is why dawn broke on the peak earlier than the area around it. Years ago astronomers would measure shadows near the terminator (boundery between daylight and dark) and use mathmatical formulas to estimate the height of mountains and crater walls on the moon:
When the cresent of the moon first starts showing the moon is only visible for a short time after dark and is very low in the sky. It is a challange to get a good shot of it then. This is the best one I have done to date, but I think I can improve on this:
Even the first night I took pictures of the moon they came out good enough to identify many mountains and craters:
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