[Theme] Show us your best moon (and solar system) images

[Jyda]

Here's one of my very few stabs at a moon image. It's a hand held grab shot, though my best of the moon itself, mainly to test the "super resolution" technique as described here. 20 images combined, taken with a D810 and a 28-300 @300mm resulting in an approximately 144mpix image. Cropped.

[elsa hoffmann]

nice one Jyda!

[Jyda]

Thanks Elsa.

Here's one where the moon plays a smaller but not less important part.

Sunset in Norway

[Jyda]

How about a silhouette of the moon?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A Lunar Eclipse some years ago. The moon was really deep copper red on that occasion.

[Asle F]

Here from Scoresbysound the day
One in the morning.

Scoresbysund by Asle Feten, on Flickr

And one in the evening.


Scorebysund by Asle Feten, on Flickr

[Øivind Tøien]

A lot of beautiful new contributions here!

A moon thread cannot do without "The Dark Side of the Moon":


AFS 300mm PF at f/6.3 on Nikon 1 AW1.



The light side of the moon works well for testing autofocus at the "infinity" point of the 300PF (also "naked") at f/4.5 with D7100:

[Akira]

The "dark side" is fascinating!

[Jakov Minić]

The dark side really is fascinating!

[ColinM]

The dark side really is fascinating!

Didn't that guy with the black helmet and cape have something to say about "the Power of the Dark side" ?!

Meanwhile when I couldn't sleep last week, I was wandering round the house and couldn't work out why it was so bright outside. After several cloudy days/nights, we finally had a clear starry night and this was hangng invitingly out there.

Despite being December, it was warm enough for me to stand out in the garden in my dressing gown setting my tripod up to take this (D300 & 300mm F4, TC14).

Note Jupiter up in the top L.H. Corner

[Akira]

Didn't that guy with the black helmet and cape have something to say about "the Power of the Dark side" ?!

That may be true.  But some must have remembered that classic prog rock album, too. 

[Jakov Minić]

Colin, rather wonderful that you got Jupiter!
I am with Akira on the space band
 

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks for the comments on the dark side of the moon..
"I am with Akira on the space band"
Of course that is what the title was intended for.

Colin, well done! With a little more exposure (perhaps combined with HDR) you could have gotten five moons into one shot (4 of those Jupiter's).

[ColinM]

Colin, rather wonderful that you got Jupiter!

Thanks Jakov, no skill needed - it was already up there in the sky! Actually the hardest thing was I needed the TC14 to get the detail on the moon, but for my sharpest shot the moon & Jupiter only just fitted in the frame together.

Actually it always seems to surprise how much the moon moves between shots when you're working at this magnification.
Click, check, start to take the next picture and...... whoa......reframe.
(It's a good test of your tripod head.)

With a little more exposure (perhaps combined with HDR) you could have gotten five moons into one shot (4 of those Jupiter's).

Ovind, I like your ambition! So you're actually aiming for:
Dark side of the moonS!!

Actually I had to bump the brightness of Jupiter up in this image to make it visible at all.

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks for the comment Colin. I had a try at Jupiter a couple of nights ago, but atmospheric conditions were extremely poor; Jupiter was dancing in the viewfinder, so nothing worth showing off from that session. It did take a 1s exposure at f/5.6 and ISO 100 to bring three of Jupiter's moons out with 300PF+TC-14E; the 4th one might have been hidden behind. So instead here is a rerun from the old forum, captured with 105mm f/2.5 at f/4.  The challenge is of course to capture both the face of our moon and Jupiter's moons in the same single exposure 

#1

NIKON D5100, f/4 @ 105 mm, 1s, ISO 125



A crop of the same; yes five moons in one shot with the 105/2.5 !
#2




And an even closer  detail from a strong crop:
#3




A different position of the same four Jupiter moons in a more recent exposure with AF 300/4 and TC-301 on AW1:
#4

NIKON 1 AW1, 600 mm 1/6 s, ISO 1600, probably at effective f/8 or f/11.


In both of these, Jupiter is heavily blown and appears larger than it's actual size.

The face of Jupiter usually requires a different level of exposure; atmospheric CA is a bit troublesome here:
#5

NIKON 1 AW1, 600 mm, 1/40 s, ISO 200, probably at effective f/8 or f/11.



A better view through a large telescope, using 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor on the eye-piece (same astronomy party as the previous moon details up in this thread). I believe one of Jupiter's moons got caught in the upper left corner (enhanced with a control point in CNX2):
#6

NIKON D5100, f/5.6 on 55mm micro, 1/10s, ISO 800