New moonshot with the Scope

Pooh · 11 Jan 2017 at 12:29

Was just about to head to bed the other night and as I was locking up the house I made the mistake of having a look at the sky :rolleyes:

Had to dig the scope out and bolt on the camera

If you click the image it will link you to the original unresized version from the D4S that you can zoom into and see more of the crater detail

MookJong · 11 Jan 2017 at 14:01

Wow! one of the best I have seen on here, I said that recently about another post but this is very impressive indeed.

Baggins_451 · 11 Jan 2017 at 16:05

Nice, what spec. is the scope if I may ask?

Pooh · 11 Jan 2017 at 17:05

Thanks guys

The scope is one of these

Celestron CPC925

AshFU · 14 Jan 2017 at 17:49

That looks like a nice bit of kit

millsy888 · 14 Jan 2017 at 18:21

Great detail in the shot, can almost see foot prints

Pooh · 16 Jan 2017 at 14:11

Thanks guys.

I was hoping to get the full moon last week but the weather turned bad so no joy.

Zagio · 22 Jan 2017 at 10:01

Great photo! Probably a silly question but how do you connect up a DSLR to a telescope to get images like this?

mattyg · 22 Jan 2017 at 11:47

millsy888 said:
Great detail in the shot, can almost see foot prints

No You Can't. The moon landing was faked..

That was a joke.........just in case

Cracking shot though....Bet that scope is less mobile than a 70-200

Pooh · 22 Jan 2017 at 14:45

Zagio said:
Great photo! Probably a silly question but how do you connect up a DSLR to a telescope to get images like this?

It's very simply actually. All you need is an adaptor for you camera whether it's Nikon or Canon. One side fits the camera like any standard lens and the other end screws onto the telescope. The adaptors are cheap as chips, under £10.

The fun bit is getting the camera settings right, but that's an entirely different story

Pooh · 22 Jan 2017 at 14:48

mattyg said:
Cracking shot though....Bet that scope is less mobile than a 70-200

Dam thing weighs a ton. It's a bit of a beast, probably more than 6 feet tall with the tripod fully extended. It does need to be heavy for stability. It also takes slightly more than 5 minutes to set-up.

Don't fancy lugging it about shooting birds