Full moon photography

Thank you, Christina. I agree with HaseebM's recommendation. Shooting a partial moon reveals many more craters and surface details. The exposure will remain the same as for a full moon. I notice the details of HaseebM's images (taken in India?) are reversed from what I get here in the USA. (excellent images Haseeb).

Years ago, I had the honor to fly former Astronaut Neil Armstrong on the company jet. He is a great hero of mine and it was a great thrill to shake his hand and get his autograph on my trip sheet.

Paul S

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Originally Posted by PRSearls

I notice the details of HaseebM's images (taken in India?) are reversed

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I noticed the same and probably in some of other pictures, but don't want to check. This is not reflection in a mirror but rotation. Maybe the Moon is different south from equator ? But India is north from equator.

My pleasure.. Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos and for the tips... Neil Armstrong... wow! :)

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Originally Posted by PRSearls

Thank you, Christina. I agree with HaseebM's recommendation. Shooting a partial moon reveals many more craters and surface details. The exposure will remain the same as for a full moon. I notice the details of HaseebM's images (taken in India?) are reversed from what I get here in the USA. (excellent images Haseeb).

Years ago, I had the honor to fly former Astronaut Neil Armstrong on the company jet. He is a great hero of mine and it was a great thrill to shake his hand and get his autograph on my trip sheet.

Paul S

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I have noticed a difference between my south shots and northern shots :) Using a telescope for tight framing could also explain it. You northerneers walk around on your heads?

Yeah, double wow for Neil Armstrong! Hope you had a chance to take some images together. Thanks for the kind thoughts on my moon images. Viewing or capturing images through a Scope flips the image either up / down or left / right depending on your scope. In this case I was using a Catadioptric.

Here are the details you get when shooting a half moon as discussed previously. Notice the straight line of mountain peaks illuminated along the terminator. Canon 500 mm + 1.4x II, ISO 400, 1/640, f/5.6, manual mode, manual focus, IS off. Cropped image. Click on pic to see larger size.

Paul S

http://i41.tinypic.com/5kk5dh.jpg

Yes, craters along the border between the dark and bright side of the Moon are very well visible - not only thanks to shadows, but also difference between angles at which the surfaces are positioned relative to sunlight and the observer - the bottom of craters is darker then walls on the right. And walls on the left are darker than bottom, because they are in shadow.
The crater Copernicus (name found in the internet and Google Earth) here in the middle, is deep, in your first image is completely flat.
But this time your Moon seems to be rotated - this doesn't look like parallactic angle just after moonrise, moreover most likely you shot it around meridian passing, when the altitude was highest to get thinnest atmosphere layer.
But I think that in photography the Moon is photographed as part of larger image - together with clouds, ground, trees, cemeteries. So details on the Moon are not so important. However I took only several images of the Moon in my life.
You have the best professional equipment.

That's a stunning image Paul, well done!

Thank you. The credit really belongs to Canon. Their 500 is regarded as one of their very best lenses. Mine is the original version, not the Mark II. It is a challenging piece of glass to use to get the optical performance it is capable of. I'm still learning.

Paul S

I don't want to create a new thread. Is this color of the clouds normal ?

http://darekk.com/temp/cambr-moon-IMG_9503.jpg

or maybe caused by air pollution ? It is not generated by the camera, but real.

I don't know for sure but the colour of your clouds looks normal to me, and the clouds are indeed very beautifully exposed.

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I don't want to create a new thread. Is this color of the clouds normal ?

http://darekk.com/temp/cambr-moon-IMG_9503.jpg

or maybe caused by air pollution ? It is not generated by the camera, but real.

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Looks like moon clouds I have seen! Always reminds me of Halloween for some reason.
What a moon tonight here on Cape Cod!
Nancy

Looks like blood. Maybe world war III or other serious disaster is under way. According to my grandma strange signs were appearing in the sky before world war I.
A the moon is strongly overexposed, but it probably can be fixed only digitally.