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19/10/13. I started fiddling around with a huge full moon (perogee moon). I put the camera on a tripod and put the telephoto on. I tried different locations, I took this from Wattle Park. It's probably the best image I did on this night, the first warm night of the spring I think!

You put the 300mm telephoto on max zoom, manual focus onto the moon. The settings were, I think, ISO = 600, f/11 (a nice deep field to make it easy to focus), 1/500 shutter speed. I kept fiddling around unti I actually started getting a picture of the moon which wasn't either too bright or not there to find the right settings. I always use 3mp in daytime, but at night in future i'll use 10mp i think. You have a choice, you can make the moon in focus, or the trees in focus, but not both!


Canals!


Canals!


~5/11/13, I did the following with my bro and he did all the camera settings. For the first time we were using a shutter release. I always wanted one of these devices since I started my astro attempts about 20 years ago when I was twelvish. I made a little camera stand from wood. Back then I did some photos in twilight. They came out pink but I could see some star trails. The digital camera is awesome because you can see if you're using the right settings and focus IMMEDIATELY instead of waiting a week to do two trips to get the pics = Awesome!







Canals!
Crescent moon setting.






Canals!
Crescent moon in twilight.





Pleiades!
These are the Pleiades. This is probably our best shot of them. This was Simple straight thru the telephoto on a tripod. They are awesome, even if they were low in the sky!




Pleiades!
This is an overexposed Venus in twilight. It's inside Saggitarius so the smudge to the right is the lagoon nebula. My bro was amazed that we were taking shots of things not seen to the naked eye. It's towards the center of the galaxy so there is lots of stuff there.






Pleiades!
This is the lunar eclipse of twilight, Tuesday 15 April, 2014! We did lots of photos but this is the best one, I think. We just missed totality which was quite fast, unlike other eclipses which really last! You can see the earth's shadow on the moon!



Total Lunar Eclipse! 8/Oct/14.



A fantastic warm night Oct, 2014. TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE! WOW! Totality lasted quite a long time. Equipment, 300m telephoto on max zoom (not a stabilized telephoto, just the cheap one the camera came with, it's fine!), Canon EOS, Tripod, shutter release. I played around with the settings on manual. Set for fluro light, or otherwise. Exposures three to eight seconds on max ISO.



Pleiades!
In this photo, an aeroplane passed underneath the moon, (the white streak) while I held the shutter open.


Pleiades!
The Eclipsed moon behind a cloud looks very compelling!


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An enlargement of the eclipsed moon. An eclipsed moon looks like a ball. It looks somehow like a close-up Mars hanging in the air.


Pleiades!


Pleiades!


Pleiades!


Pleiades!
This exposure about eight seconds.


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This exposure is about seven seconds?


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This is what the moon looks like under a fuller exposure time, of perhaps about five seconds.


Pleiades!
This is the moon under a reduced exposure time.


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This is the moon under a further reduced exposure time. Just a second or so. The less exposure the less colour. In this one it looks like the Death Star as you approach it in an X-wing.


Pleiades!
The mysterious orb.









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