I hope to try that too. I don't think that the *ist D is the right camera for it though (longer exposures will have more noise). A lot of the coolest deep space astrophotography is being done with dedicated cameras that can have proper cooling for the CCD. Many of these are actually hacked from cheap webcams.
None of my friends have telescopes with equatorial mounts which also makes such photography more difficult. You'll get streaks instead of steady images without one. We set up at a city park (Greenlake, Seattle, WA) yesterday. The viewing was quite good, but I'm sure that it would be even better if we got outside of the city lights. alex On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Tom C wrote: > Cool shot Alex! > > It's always been my aspirations to get into astrophotography, especially > deep space objects. > > Tom C. > > > > > > From: alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PAW: moon > Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:10:09 -0700 (PDT) > > Last night I got together with some friends and their telescopes. > I brought along my *ist D. > > This was shot with a 1540mm f11 telescope (Orion Starmax or something) > and the *ist D in prime focus (telescope acting as the primary lens). > ISO 200, 1/10". > > http://www.phred.org/~alex/pictures/moon/moon-bluesky.jpg > > No real processing except for contrast adjustment, cropping, and a > little sharpening. > > Focusing through the telescope was very difficult, so this isn't as > sharp as I would have hoped. It gives us more reasons to try again. > This is a nice little telescope for photography though, as it has > T-threads right on the eyepiece mount, was reasonably priced, and very > compact. > > alex > > _________________________________________________________________ > Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN > Premium! > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ > >
