Sooo... couple days ago I tried out some moon photography. Never done it before so it took me a little bit to figure it out. Some high cloud didn't help the situation, but eventually I was able to get some decent exposures. Wish I had a longer lens or I had gone out while the moon was a little closer but even still it was cool to try it out. One weird thing did happen to me. Thanks to F5 and ST (yes, ST) I think it's safe to assume what I saw was a pair of contrails move between me and the moon, effectively blocking out part of the moon while it moved from roughly SW to NE. Never seen anything like it before and probably wont see it again for a while. Either way it was cool/weird to see. Anyways, here's a few pics. Nothing great, but not bad.
The following pics are onces of the contrail just after it moved across the face of the moon (relative to my position). Unfortunately as it moved right in front I was waiting for a 25 second exposure to process on my camera. But was still able to manage these:
3 comments:
Very nice photos Dean, I've always wanted to try moon photog, but haven't done it just yet, good job on the pics! February is here, March is knocking on our door, were getting there!
Thanks Tim. It took me a while to realize I needed a much higher shutter speed than I thought. The ones that I posted of just the moon were taken at a shutter speed of about 1/250. Definitely not used to using that high of a speed at night.
Hang on a bit longer! March is almost here so we SHOULD start warming up. March 7th to 10th starting to look interesting at least. Nice pictures by the way!
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