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Binary Shadow:
After reading Russells thread I thought I would share my experiance.
I to went out to see if I could see the near miss asteroid. Was cold.. and I had nothing but my 7D 100-400mm lens and a tripod.. and I had no chance of seeing it lol.
I took a few snaps anyway: I used the 2 second self timer to try and reduce camera shake when taking the shot, should have broken out the remote really and used shutter lock up, the tripod wasnt as sturdy as it could have been either.
Moon by Adam Woodford, on Flickr
Jupiter by Adam Woodford, on Flickr
Orion's Belt by Adam Woodford, on Flickr
Orion's Belt by Adam Woodford, on Flickr
I was blown away by what I wasnt seeing.. the naked eye vs even just the 400mm lens, so much I cant see, really fancy a telescope now.
Jupiters moons I believe anyway in shot.
Clock'd 0Ne:
If I had a decent sized garden I'd love to be able to get outside with a telescope and have a proper look at the sky, the difference is amazing.
Eggtastico:
i tried a telescope & mount for my camera. was really difficult as when zoomed in that much everything moves really fast.
I even tried hooking it all up to my computer, realised in the end my equipment wasnt up to it. I would love a computerised telescope & not living to far from brecon is handy. Just i know I woudnt have the time to use it & to much light pollution in my back garden
I believe a lot of people remove/replace the IR from the camera sensor to capture more detail.
Russell:
I went out with pair of binoculars to try and see the asteroid but didn't see it but I'd agree its amazing the amount of stuff you can see with binoculars or a telescope. With cameras I've found to get the detail out you really need to do a bit of work in Photoshop etc when your editing it to try and get the stars to come out otherwise they just aren't bright enough by themselves without doing a really long exposure.
Looking at your pics it looks like you've boosted the ISO to get the shutter speed down, you might be better putting your ISO on say 200/400 and making your shutter speed a lot longer, you loose detail and dynamic range when you boost your ISO up high.
Russell:
--- Quote from: Eggtastico on February 22, 2013, 14:36:28 PM ---i tried a telescope & mount for my camera. was really difficult as when zoomed in that much everything moves really fast.
I even tried hooking it all up to my computer, realised in the end my equipment wasnt up to it. I would love a computerised telescope & not living to far from brecon is handy. Just i know I woudnt have the time to use it & to much light pollution in my back garden
I believe a lot of people remove/replace the IR from the camera sensor to capture more detail.
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I've got an adaptor so I can attach my camera to a telescope but it takes out the eye pieces which give you most of the magnifictation instead your telescope just becomes a big say 700mm lens, I think most people use webcams attached to the eyepiece to get good results but yeah things move very quickly, you maybe have 10-15 seconds at most whilst watching Jupiter through a telescope so not good for a long exposure shot.
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