Your moon shots are absolutely incredible. The crater on the lower right side gives this shot lots of emotion. Would you mind sharing how you got them to an amateur? LOL
Two things that you need to get a shot like this are a very long lens and a clock driven equatorial mount. In this case the lens was an Orion Starmax 127, which has a focal length of 1540mm. It's f/12.1 and therefore quite slow, so it needs to be on a mount that moves the telescope in opposition to the rotation of the earth. The Starmax 127 is available from telescope.com. Of course you need a way to mount the telescope as a lens on your camera. The standard for that is called a T Mount. The backside of the Starmax has T mount threads. I purchased a Canon EF to T adapter from telescope.com. Is there anything else you would like to know?
Wow thanks for all that, sure seems like a lot to go through, but the end result is worth it. Im still really new to photography and all the technical stuff I'm pretty much self taught so I def appreciate the info and will look into it more. I looked at telescope.com and was able to learn a lot. Thanks
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Zach Schible
1 year, 10 months ago:
Would you mind sharing how you got them to an amateur? LOL
scherbi
1 year, 10 months ago:
Two things that you need to get a shot like this are a very long lens and a clock driven equatorial mount. In this case the lens was an Orion Starmax 127, which has a focal length of 1540mm. It's f/12.1 and therefore quite slow, so it needs to be on a mount that moves the telescope in opposition to the rotation of the earth. The Starmax 127 is available from telescope.com. Of course you need a way to mount the telescope as a lens on your camera. The standard for that is called a T Mount. The backside of the Starmax has T mount threads. I purchased a Canon EF to T adapter from telescope.com. Is there anything else you would like to know?
Zach Schible
1 year, 9 months ago:
I looked at telescope.com and was able to learn a lot.
Thanks
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SteveZ
1 year, 1 month ago:
P.s. how did you get the coloring in the shot?
scherbi
1 year, 1 month ago:
The color is natural, due to the lunar eclipse.
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