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Nice. How long were the exposures on those pictures?

alex_holden wrote:........ and the stars turning into little arcs due to the Earth's rotation,.......

I was simplifying and generalising, but this is one reason for using as fast a shutter speed as possible.

RogerRust wrote:My experiance is that the moon is a very bright object so needs a suprisingly short exposure

Combining this with a small aperture, minimises the risk of a blurred image.

Exposure about 90 sec. It looked funny a tiny digital camara on a big slick proffesional tripod to avoid shake. The trick is to find location with no artifical lights. We don't have streetlights but a couple times a car drove passed and wrecked it.

RogerRust wrote:We don't have streetlights but a couple times a car drove passed and wrecked it.

Which reminds me of one particular night time shoot at a 'steam up' when a friend of mine walked up to an engine in front of a whole line of us, cameras on tripods, shutters open!!!!!!!! Amazing the diversity of the english language

Interesting this topic
Most of all this jargen is above me..exposure time etc; etc; I just really started taking a lot of photo's when I bought my first digi camera a few years ago. Took me a while to set it up, also my newer on last year, I just set them on auto-everything The flash go's off when needed, but I find sometimes during daylight at a show it flashes when I'm taking photo's... is this wrong ??
I don't think I do too bad with my photo's but have learnt something new while reading this topic..
Lovely photo's them Roger, I'm going to have a go in the dark without the flash and see what happens...well, when it stops raining

Here's one of my photo's of last nights moon...not very good at all maybe you could tell me where I went wrong..



Mal

Don't worry about it, just enjoy it

liddle echo in here

excellent pics everyone, thank you for sharing them, mal your photo really brought back my own experience of gazing at the moon from my bedroom window last night, mmmmm and roger your pics are stunning

liddle echo in here

Don't think it was an echo....it's age really... as you get older you repeat youself, I say you repeat yourself

Mal

That's another beer when we meet, I say that's another beer when we meet

Mal

mal wrote: Here's one of my photo's of last nights moon...not very good at all

It's not that bad... If you email me the original image I'll see if I can extract any more detail out of it. My address is alex [at] linuxhacker [dot] org

Alex, do you want the whole massive photo ? I did crop it down just to show the moon or would the one shown do ?

Mal

mal wrote:Alex, do you want the whole massive photo ? I did crop it down just to show the moon or would the one shown do ?

Ah right, I thought you'd scaled it down rather than cropped it because of all the black space around it. Does your camera have a fixed wide-angle lens? I think you could probably do with greater magnification so that the moon takes up more of the frame. I have heard of people attaching their camera to a cheap telescope to avoid the cost of an SLR camera and telephoto lens, but I haven't tried it myself...

I say that's another beer when we meet

Must be approaching a small barrel by now............

How much to post a firkin, then?

hmmmmm.... *checks Royal Mail website* Looks like it will depend on the specific gravity of the contents, and whether your particular model of firkin will fit through the circle beside the counter or whether its girth will nudge it up to "Large Firkin" postage rates

Firkin 'ell

Must be approaching a small barrel by now............

No probs;
The things I have to do to get some 'Southerners' up North

Firkin 'ell

My sentiments exactly Lou

Mal

This is one 'Southerner' that has probably been North more often than many, and at the moment it's getting even more appealing

Yes, there is life North of Watford, aint there Bill

Alex...

Not sure, regarding your question of wide-angled lens, I just point it and take photo's I wasn't really prepared for the eclipse, it was a last minute dash as I wasn't sure we would see it up here and I didn't have time to find my tripod to steady it, I did crop it and scale it down but don't seem to have been very sucessful... maybe next time

Mal