The Moon

[astrophoto.kevin]

Hey Steemians, Already a long time since my last post. Yesterday I got the chance to practice a little bit astrophotography again. Nothing special, I've tested some new drivers and software. After the successful tests, I tried to get some shots of the nearly full Moon. Well... my telescope let too much light in and the camera is too slow with a minimum exposure time of 50µs. I would never have expected, that I would have oversaturated areas with a focal ratio of f6.5. To get my telescope a little bit slower, I build a "shutter" that can be put in front of it. The plan was to test it this night but guess what... Yes, it's cloudy again.

The Moon
^{La Luna}

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For more information about the photographed animal or plant, please visit the following link. The Moon on Wikipedia

Camera settings

Camera	QHY247C
Lens	TSAPO65Q · 420mm · f6.5
Filter	Astronomik UV/IR L2
Exposure time	5000 x 50 µs
ISO	Unity Gain @ -20°C
Focal length	420mm

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Comments

[terrylovejoy]

That is very nice for just 420mm focal length Kevin! Have you tried Astra yet for sharpening/deconvolution? I am liking it a lot.

[astrophoto.kevin]

Thank you very much Terry :-)
Nice to see you around here!
I haven't heard of it yet. I just downloaded the trial/demo and give it a try. What I've seen so far on their webpage, it looks very promising. Thank you for the hint :-)

[agmoore]

Spectacular, as always. My daughter and granddaughter were so impressed with the moon (naked eye) the other night that they sent me a photo, taken on an iPhone. Feb 8, 5:49 pm EST, Nassau County, New York

Have a great night...looking forward to more great pictures, from you and my granddaughter :))

[astrophoto.kevin]

Thank you very much for your kind words @agmoore :-)
And sorry for the late answer.
That's a really impressive photo. Incredible what smartphones can do these days.
You really see how bright the Moon illuminates the sky. Great :-)

Thank you, have also a great night. Even when you should have noon/afternoon at the moment :-)

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Thank you so much @amico :-)

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