Author Topic: [Theme] Show us your best moon (and solar system) images  (Read 178038 times)

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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #480 on: October 30, 2019, 20:24:45 »
Moonfall in the Alps

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wow, fantastic
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #481 on: October 31, 2019, 05:42:00 »
wow, fantastic
Yes, even at 1/500 this kind of snappy contrast is hard to get on an object 400,000. km away!
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #482 on: October 31, 2019, 07:37:50 »
Yes, even at 1/500 this kind of snappy contrast is hard to get on an object 400,000. km away!

Great blue moon. While most of those 400,000km is vacuum that does not change contrast ;) , atmospheric conditions must have been really good to get that great detail. Is my assumption that it is a composite correct? The trees look a little too much in focus to be a single capture?
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #483 on: October 31, 2019, 09:55:28 »
Great blue moon. While most of those 400,000km is vacuum that does not change contrast ;) , atmospheric conditions must have been really good to get that great detail. Is my assumption that it is a composite correct? The trees look a little too much in focus to be a single capture?

Not a composite, I shot a whole sequence (handheld) on a very clear evening, sitting on an easy chair. Air is like that in Queyras, very very dry

Included is the next photo; actually the counter marks 5 more than previous, I was shooting with a 5-exposure bracketing (between -1.3 and +1.3) and then selected the best exposure: -0.7 in both instances.

Those larch trees were approximately 500-600m away; I was curious as to the distance reported in the EXIF, so I looked it up: 133.35 (*) meters (the EXIF reported distance is far from accurate, at least in macro I found a lot of variation from what I actually measured with a tape measure). For the moon I use AF-C linked to the AF-ON button only. Focussing was done on the moon, and then nothing was touched across the sequences (only refocussing once in a while,  to make sure I did not touch the focussing ring...)

The VR function in that lens really makes miracles!

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(*) 133.35 m,  that would be the distance of the Moon, it's the focussing distance that's reported from the circuitry to the EXIF.  That's the highest value that the lens reports even when focussed beyond infinity.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #484 on: November 01, 2019, 02:26:47 »

Thanks for the explanation, those trees were much bigger and farther away than it looked.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #485 on: November 01, 2019, 08:12:29 »
Amazing image! I was also fooled by the size of the trees  8)
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #486 on: November 01, 2019, 14:53:54 »
Hope you see the moon.  :)
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #487 on: November 01, 2019, 15:46:50 »
Hope you see the moon.  :)
of course! given the color of the tree I initially thought IR image
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #488 on: November 08, 2019, 08:42:09 »
Moon, stars and clouds

From my window facing South

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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #489 on: November 08, 2019, 11:34:47 »
of course! given the color of the tree I initially thought IR image

LOL!  They lit the leaves partially with the red LED!
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #490 on: November 15, 2019, 11:57:46 »
The red moon, fresh out of the horizon.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #491 on: December 13, 2019, 06:51:51 »
Similar aspect of the 16-day moon.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #492 on: December 13, 2019, 08:55:08 »
Fabulous, such nice saturated moody colors ;)
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #493 on: December 13, 2019, 09:11:09 »
Fabulous, such nice saturated moody colors ;)

Thank you, Erik.  I liked this mysterious mixture of the lights.
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Re: [Theme] Show us your best moon images
« Reply #494 on: December 13, 2019, 13:18:00 »
Lunar eclipse - 3 Picture simple composite...
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