tonight's full moon

[christiand]

Hi all,

I thought I'll bring a little closer to us tonight's full moon.

http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php?album=137&pos=0

cheers
CD

[Matty B]

Christian D,

This is rather good! I really go for this sort of thing. How did you capture this shot? Nice phase - nearly full - just leaves that little bit left to the imagination!

Cheers,

[christiand]

Hi Matty,

Thanks for your comment.
This photo was taken with a TC-17EII and 70-200VR
using 1/350 sec and F10 on a tripod, VR turned off.
I'll do another one tomorrow, hoping the weather permits.

Cheers
CD

[Matty B]

Ah - ha! Serious equip to make seriously good image! Plus the skill of the operator etc.........

Thanks for the details, hope the clouds stay off for tom. for you.!

Cheers,

[fozzie]

CD,

When I opened your PixSpot address the following imagine was dispalyed



With description of: moon with sigma 70-300mm APO Super II macro.
As against, quote 'This photo was taken with a TC-17EII and 70-200VR' unquote. I know that PixSpot occasionally selects the incorrect imagine.

Cheers,

[Link]

Waw, great shot Christian! I'm interested to know how the TC-17EII works... I thought it provided a *1.7 magnification but the moon looks so big on your photo! What would be the focal length equivalent of a 200mm lens fitted with the TC-17EII?

Link.

[stubbsy]

fozzie

It works for me. My guess is this is coming from your web cache as the image you show is now pos=3 in it's URL not pos=0 (hope that makes sense). Try shift+reload on your web browser

[christiand]

I believe that PixSpot is mangling again.
When I click on the link in my message, the correct image is displayed.

Cheers
CD

[christiand]

Hi Link,

the TC-17EII does a 1.7 magnification.
This turns the 70mm to 200mm VR into a 119mm to 340mm VR.
Then apply the crop factor to the D70 and it appears to become a 178.5mm to 510mm VR lens compared to a 35mm film camera.
I also cropped the image and enlarged it a little bit.

Cheers
CD

[Link]

Hi Link,
Then apply the crop factor to the D70 and it appears to become a 178.5mm to 510mm VR lens compared to a 35mm film camera.

That's great, getting a 200mm lens to deliver the equivalent of a 510mm image! Well done again.

Link.

[fozzie]

CD,

I hope that I have it now.



When I open, it always goes to my previous post picture.

Stubbsy,

quote 'My guess is this is coming from your web cache as the image you show is now pos=3 in it's URL not pos=0 (hope that makes sense). Try shift+reload on your web browser' unquote.
You have definitely lost me. I will research this at another time. I must go to bed now, as I have long day ahead of me tomorrow .

Goodnight,

[christiand]

Hi fozzie,

I'm not sure but you may try a shift refresh in your browser.

Anyway, here is today's moon:


cheers
CD

[mudder]

Wow, I think I can just make out the little flag! Terrific detail. Great moon shot... Oooops, just realised what sounds like...

Cheers,
Mudder

[stubbsy]

Stubbsy,

quote 'My guess is this is coming from your web cache as the image you show is now pos=3 in it's URL not pos=0 (hope that makes sense). Try shift+reload on your web browser' unquote.
You have definitely lost me. I will research this at another time. I must go to bed now, as I have long day ahead of me tomorrow

Sorry Fozzie, I thought this might be too much techno babble. Here's the long version:

1. Browser caching
   (you probably know this, but I thought I'd be complete)
   When you go to a web page your browser downloads the text and graphics needed for the page and saves them in your web cache (this is the "Temporary Internet Files" folder in your web browser's setup options). The next time you go to the same web page, instead of downloading the files again, your web browser uses the ones it saved in your web cache so the page gets displayed quicker. There is some behind the scenes stuff to determine if the cached files are the same as the ones to be downloaded - if they're different the files are downloaded again rather than coming from your cache. Sometimes this goes wrong and you see the old files from your cache when a new visitor to the site would see something different. To force the files to be downloaded even if they're in your cache you hold down the shift key while you click on your browser's refresh button (between the stop and home buttons in IE)
2. The pos=0 stuff
   If you look at the URL in Christian's first post it ends with pos=0. This tells pixspot which image to show (in this case the one at position 0) You can see the URLs for the images by looking in the status area in the bottom left of your web browser while you move your mouse cursor over one of the images in the pixspot filmstrip window. eg the image below is from Christian's page
   
   The images are numbered from the left starting at 0 and ending at 4 (computers start counting at 0 where we start at 1, just to be confusing). So looking at the film strip above the first image (position 0) is the new one Christian was linking to. The one you saw was the 4th from the left (pos =3) and the second one you showed us was the last one (pos=4). If the image is still showing incorrectly after you force a reload of the pixspot web page then something strange is happening with your web cache. ie click Christian's link above, when the page loads if it's not the larger version of the first image in the films trip above then click Refresh while holding down your shift key. This should cause the image to cahnge to the correct one.

I hope this makes a little more sense. If it doesn't just forget the whole thing and pretend I said nothing

[Matt. K]

christiand
It's the old trick shot again...a macro shot of a grape!

[christiand]

Here is another shot of a grape.

http://downunder.customer.netspace.net. ... moon-1.jpg

Cheers
CD

[sirhc55]

CD - don’t know if you can see it but I am sure I can see the word ”Hasselblad” inscribed in one of the craters - nice pic

[christiand]

Thanks everyone.

I'm still blown away from the detail this lens combination gives.
I just remembered we do have members here that do astro photography.
Astro photographers, please post some of your photos.

Regards
CD

[mic]

Hi Christiand,

Taken with my D70 just hand held against my Aunties 200mm Telescope last year.
Why is it Green I here you ask

Because I used to have a telescope and when I viewed the Moon it was very bright so I used a Green Filter/ Moon Filter.

This reminded me of my younger days in my backyard looking up at the sky with amazement.

Mic.

[christiand]

very cool !

Cheers
CD

[christiand]

Mic,

where were you located when you took the photo ?

Cheers
CD

[mic]

On Earth

Sorry, just up the coast near Nowra NSW
Little place called Sussex Inlet.

Glad you liked.

Mic.

[christiand]

Nic,

I'm asking because I saw the moon shot from the US and those shots were exactly orientated like yours. The big crater towards the left bottom quadrant.
The shots I have being taken show that big crater in the top right hand quadrant of the the image.
Is there someone who can explain to me how the images of the moon may vary during the year on one hemisphere apart from being little moon, half moon, full moon etc ?
Astronomers people, please come and explain.

Cheers
CD

[mic]

Hi christiand,

Well, I know one thing, when you take a picture of the Moon or look through a Telescope it is upside down because when you view celestrial objects through a telescope it doesn't matter if they are upside down seeing everything is round.
The extra glass used in corecting the image is wasted and can inhibit light gathering power of the scope. You can get what are called erecting prisims which flip the image for using on Earth.

As far as I know, if you look at something on the other side of the world it doesn't make a difference.

Hope this helps.

Keep looking up

Mic.

[mic]

By the way, The big Crater at the bottom is called Tycho
Smaller one in middle on left is Kepler, big one on right Copernicus.

The sort of curved line / Ridge above Copernicus going from right to bottom left is the Luna Alps.

Just thought you might like to know.

Mic.

[christiand]

Hi Mic,

thanks for that explanation.
I have learnt a few things.

Cheers
CD

[naasif]

Here is another shot of a grape.

http://downunder.customer.netspace.net. ... moon-1.jpg

Cheers
CD

Nice shot Looks like a peeled orange