Once the moon was fully eclipsed, I got to looking around. I took a couple of photos of Saturn, after I took a peek at it through my bird-watching binoculars. I was pretty excited by what I saw in those binoculars: I could see the rings! Only I need to get some sort of stand to put the binoculars on so they don't move too much. The natural movement of the hands is not at all a problem when looking at birds, it's not a serious problem when looking at the moon, although it's a bit annoying, and it's a relatively serious problem when looking at another planet. The image jumped around more than my 17 month old son!
Then I got out my telescope and had another shot at getting it to work. It was still a bit disappointing because I was unable to get it to focus. However, it was a huge improvement on my past attempts because I did manage to get the moon to show up in my telescope! So maybe there's hope for this telescope after all!
After that I took another batch of pictures, but by this time the Monkey was really getting tired of looking at the moon.
And for something a bit whimsical & very cool try this photo, called ten moons, also taken during last night's eclipse.
6 comments:
Man, you are one AMAZING photographer! Your pictures are excellent.
We had a great time looking at the moon as well. =) It was dang cold outside though.
I forgot to click the "email me with replies" thing, so I'm posting this one and clicking it....Sorry about the double post. =Þ
I really like your moon pictures. That's a long way from the day you said you wanted to get some pictures of the moon. You didi it and you've done it well!
You're getting to e quite a photographer.
Keeley - I cheated: I was inside. My boy was sleeping, so I aimed my camera out an upstairs window. Hence the odd reflections of the moonlight on the glass in the early pictures. But as it got more shadowed, that was less & less of a problem.
Dad - It makes me happy that you like them! I tried to line my camera up with my telescope (the one that was fuzzy-looking, although it did show me the moon!), but it didn't work at all. Guess I'll have to try that again after I learn to focus the telescope.
Anne - thank you.
Beautiful..so beautiful! Gosh, I wish I have a camera like yours! You're really good!
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