Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Attempted a Moon Shot

No, I wasn't trying to send a rocket to the moon, just shoot a picture or two of it.  It was a thin sliver and looked so neat that I ran in the house and got my camera.  Now, just so you don't get disappointed when you see the pictures, my camera is a small pocket type that actually fits into my shirt pocket.  It takes fair pictures but is not really good for celestial shots.

But I felt that this thin sliver of a moon should be photographed, so I gave it a shot (or two).  I zoomed in to the limits of my little camera and snapped two pictures.  When I looked at them, all I could see was a little spot of light in the middle of a dark screen.  On the computer I zoomed and I zoomed and I zoomed in on that little spot and finally got something that looked like a sliver of the moon.  Here are the two pictures that I took:

As you can see, I must have moved some on the second shot.  Oh well, someday I may get myself a really good camera, that is when my ship comes in.  Or, next time, I could take a picture through my big telescope, but then all you would see would be a crater or two with a pile of rocks in the middle of them.  Now, don't ask me where those piles of rocks came from, but have yourselves a great day, you hear?

10 comments:

  1. I have never had any luck photographing anything in the night sky. When I lived in NC I had a fairlty good view of the heavens, even though there were some city lights nearby. But a regular camera just doesn't do it, I suppose Did you by any chance see the meteor shower?
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    1. I wasn't looking for it, so no, I didn't see any.

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  2. You didn't do bad at least you got what you were looking at. Did you use your flash?

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    1. Actually, yes. The flash is automatic unless manually turned off. Don't think it helped any. (grin)

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  3. Not a bad picture taken with a small camera. I never have any luck with moon shots. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Would be nice to have a better camera, but I am too old to buy an expensive camera, I wouldn't get my money's worth out of it (grin).

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    1. Thanks Mr. Hermit. I need a camera attachment for my big telescope. But then I would need a motorized scope to take long exposure time pictures. I just can't seem to win.

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  5. Cloudy nights have really limited my night sky viewing recently. Oh well, not much I can do about that.

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    1. Clouds do have a way of blocking celestial views, don't they?

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