Pictures of the moon I took through my telescope

[Markass]

Here are some pictures of the moon that I took through my telescope with my digital camera.

those are some badass pictures

[skunke]

WOW just amazing! Will be anticipating some more!

[FlyGuyOU]

wheres the moonajuana

[Diffusion]

Anyways, I've seen some pretty spectacular things on the moon that I'm not willing to discuss. I've told very few people. Last winter, during a 4 night stretch, every time I viewed the moon, certain 'events' were taking place. That's all I can really say, but keep watching the sky!

You didn't see anything. If you did, you were probably :stoned:

[pinkyslayer]

The telescope uses different interchangeble eyepieces that give different magnifications. I bought an adapter that allowed me to attach my digital camera (just a regular Nikon Coolpix) onto an eyepeice. With something like the moon, you can use the camera's zoom to get the image framed the way you want, and then get things focused as well as you can with the telescope's focuser, and then the camera's autofocus will automatically do the last bit of focusing.

There are a lot of different ways to take pictures through a telescope. Some of them use very specialized equipemnt. Some people use the digital camer method like I did. And then there are some systems that are based on webcams, and you use a laptop to capture and process the images.

The moon is a very easy thing to image, because it is very bright, so it does not take a long exposure. And it is big and has easily visible features, so it gives your camera something to auto-focus on. Star clusters and distant deep-sky objects are harder because they take very long exposures, and you have to have a system for tracking them very precisely as they move across the sky. For planets, people get good results with webcams and using a process called "stacking" that uses software to "stack" a lot of short exposure images into one single image to build up the details.

wow dude...youre pretty damn smart about that shit...nice photos too

[Esoteric416]

There is a decent restaurant on the moon --- good food, but no atmosphere. Maybe they could liven the place up with some events.

"Atmosphere" Yuk Yuk :thumbsup:

[LuciferN]

Here are some pictures of the moon that I took through my telescope with my digital camera.

Nice pics ! Did you ever saw the US flag on the moon ?

[zebedee]

wicked

[dragonrider]

Nice pics ! Did you ever saw the US flag on the moon ?

A lot of people wonder about that, but the flags and footprints and the parts of the sapcecraft that were left behind are all much to small to see at this distance, even with really powerful telescopes.

[blizz]

good pictures i just put one as the backround for out hotel computer,nice bro :thumbsup: