Jul 102008
Digital camera attached to telescope. Even with the camera hooked up to a TV, I still for the life of me can’t get this thing to focus precisely. Grrrr.
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Digital camera attached to telescope. Even with the camera hooked up to a TV, I still for the life of me can’t get this thing to focus precisely. Grrrr.
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By the color on that, are you photographing it near the horizon?
Give up on getting it in focus if that’s the case.
Atmospheric turbulence will screw up the image no matter how short the exposure on the digital camera if done at that magnification.
You might actually get around this problem in a oddball way, by tracking the Moon for around a second or so with far lower light pick-up.
That technique could also lead to the near-infinite depth of field that pinhole photography at extremely high f ratios allows.
(Way, way, back I was able to do photos from 2″ to infinity using a literal pinhole on a old box camera, and exposures of around 20 seconds.)
Since those dragonflies like the one you photographed (no luck figuring out the species on that one yet) sleep at night while hanging on weeds, bush and tree limbs and such, you might be able to get a close-up photo of one with the Moon in the background, lighting it…or maybe even with the Moon’s image refracted through the facets on its wings.
That would be a knockout photo indeed.
That’s the sort of thing that wins photo contests.
I’m still laughing over your great cat photos… I take it you spend most of your spare time on the floor, camera in hand, as the cats crawl around and over you like supermodels on the “catwalk”.
I’ve saved the “H.P. Lovecraft” cat photo, and am still trying to figure out how to turn it into a paperback novel cover illustration.
Name’s the trick…what’s the perfect “Weird Tales” title for it?
“The Prowling Horror?” “The Terror In The Night”?
I’m tending toward “The Claws Of Bastet”.
Was photographed fairly high in the sky, sadly.
As to the cats, it’s simply a matter of having a camera near at hand when they start doing goofy things. I’ve missed a lot due to the camera being more than 4 feet away…
Complex photos are not currently in the cars. All photography is currently being done with a simple point-and-shoot. At maximum zoom the moon is a barely-recognizable circular blur, unless I’ve hooked it up to my telescope.
Yup! I gotta walk there some day.