Moon from my bedroom

[ffutures]

Someone pointed out in a private post that there's a very large full moon over London tonight. So I took a few pictures.

I think this may be the clearest moon picture I've ever taken, using my 28-300mm zoom rather than the mirror lens (which really isn't sharp enough). I think the shutter time was 1/1000 second, I've boosted brightness and contrast slightly. The top of the moon isn't as sharp as I'd like, probably a little shake even at this speed.



If I wasn't living in London I'd probably think about buying a telescope for this sort of thing - as it is, there's too much light pollution for it to be useful.

Comments

[rodabug.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it's too cloudy for me to see the moon tonight.

Nice picture, though.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

This, sadly.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I managed to get this at 400mm (70-200mm + 2x teleconverter), cropped quite a bit:

(click for bigger)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Excellent - much better than mine. I should have used a tripod.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Do I notice the same dark fuzzyness at the top of the moon as there was in your picture?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

On his it's the slightly uneven terrain of the moon - on mine it's camera shake!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Mine was actually handheld (not too bad at 1/250th, even with a heavy lens).

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

gosh, very steady hands!

[chuk-g.livejournal.com]

I like it. We were out in the woods looking at it through a telescope and it was actually a little too bright for good viewing -- reflecting so much light that all we saw was white.