As I ascended into the dome and opened the shutter, I noticed that the moon was close to setting. I lowered the big scope down to near horizontal and used the hand-pad to follow the moon. This 2 second untracked shot at ISO 400 and f/3 allowed me to capture enough of the moonlight, which was by then an attenuated orange colour, so that it scattered off the edges of the branches. The tree in question was across the road on the other side of a large field 227 metres away. The difference in focus between the moon and the tree was enough to dilate the lunar crescent into a fat banana.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Moonset 8-1-11
As I ascended into the dome and opened the shutter, I noticed that the moon was close to setting. I lowered the big scope down to near horizontal and used the hand-pad to follow the moon. This 2 second untracked shot at ISO 400 and f/3 allowed me to capture enough of the moonlight, which was by then an attenuated orange colour, so that it scattered off the edges of the branches. The tree in question was across the road on the other side of a large field 227 metres away. The difference in focus between the moon and the tree was enough to dilate the lunar crescent into a fat banana.
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