Single shot moon images - thread

[FowlersFreeTime]

3 days ago, waxing, almost full, probably my sharpest moon-shot to date:

• E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3000001907349
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 250

Tonight's full moon... meh? hard to nail manual focus with the A6700's low resolution screen and viewfinder, so I think its not as sharp as it could be due to focus:

• E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3000001907349
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

I'm also starting to think that full moons are overrated: it looks flat and featureless compared to a few days ago.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

hard to nail manual focus with the A6700's low resolution screen and viewfinder,

Do you find focus magnify to be of any help?

Super shots!

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Do you find focus magnify to be of any help?

Super shots!

focus magnify and focus peaking are absolute necessities! Without them, these moon shots would be glowing orbs of unfocused light

 

[evacguy]

I arrived at my hotel in Oklahoma City midnight on Sunday 7 April after about 23 hours travel time. Got up the next day at about 11:00 and headed down to Myriad Botatanical Gardens to enjoy the eclipse. Unfortunately, I didn't have eclipse glasses or solar filters for my lenses, so couldn't really photograph the eclipse. Luckily, park officals were giving out eclipse glasses and I met a photographer in the park that was well equipped to photograph the eclipse. I photographed images of the eclipse from his flip screen. It was pretty impressive, even though it was only about 95%. Temperature must have dropped by 5C at the maximum.

The time each photograph was taken is in the file name. My sequence starts at 12:10:46 and ends at 13:01:07 which was the eclispe maximum. In the third image you can see a large sun spot just above the centre of the sun.

12:10:46

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/22
• 1/80 sec
• ISO 640

12:15:41

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

12:16:02
In this image you can see a large sun spot, just above the centre of the sun.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 100

12:27:04

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

12:42:40

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

12:47:36

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

13:01:07

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/80 sec
• ISO 100

 

[evacguy]

Luckily, it was a gorgeous day for the eclipse, and so there were a lot of folks out in the park. We even had a lot of local TV out to shoot the eclipse, or people shooting the eclipse to be precise.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 59.0 mm
• ƒ/22
• 1/60 sec
• ISO 250

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/22
• 1/80 sec
• ISO 640

 

[evacguy]

The eclipse at near maximum reflected on the highrise, and shadows at near maximum eclipse.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Alan Clark]

Moon, aged 41 hours.

• ----
• 1/60 sec
• ISO 6400

 

[Alan Clark]

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• 1/2 sec
• ISO 800

The Moon with Earthsine. Several images combined with the HDR tool in ON1.

 

[evacguy]

Waxing crescent moon over Blackheath London on 12 May 2024 at 23:21. We had aurora activity, but not at this time.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[Alan Clark]

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• 1/20 sec
• ISO 400

The Moon, 2024 May 17, with exaggerated colours. The colours are real, with blue regions resulting from higher levels of iron and titanium.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Waxing gibbous from May. It seems that I always take pictures of that phase. I need to branch out, maybe try a crescent early in the moon phase next time.

• E 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 A047
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Ralph]

Nice job done here and I know once we are back into our Summers here I will start on doing these once again and I do like the look of this one and is inspiring enough to get me to go outside to try to get a few like this.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Nice job done here and I know once we are back into our Summers here I will start on doing these once again and I do like the look of this one and is inspiring enough to get me to go outside to try to get a few like this.

I bet you'll get more great shots with your 150-600mm lens!

 

[iamdlewis]

A fish moon from like a month ago

• ILCE-7RM4
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 500

 

[EdHarrison]

My first moon photo.

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/40 sec
• ISO 64

 

[evacguy]

My first moon photo.

View attachment 64268

Nice shot, was this handheld and when did you take this? I have a similar shot from Friday night using the 70-200mm GM2 with and without the 2.0xTC. I’ll process these asap.

 

[EdHarrison]

Nice shot, was this handheld and when did you take this? I have a similar shot from Friday night using the 70-200mm GM2 with and without the 2.0xTC. I’ll process these asap.

Thanks! This was two nights ago from Texas. It was on a tripod using a two second timer.

 

[evacguy]

Thanks Ed, sounds like we took our images on the same night. It’ll be interesting comparing them.

 

[evacguy]

Here is my shot of the full moon from 19 July 2024 taken in the New Forest hand held. The moon was low on the horizon and had just cleared the tree line. I stacked 8 images in photoshop. I should also say that the images were taken after a bottle of wine with dinner and two negroni's, that could explain why the image is not as sharp as it could be!

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II + 2X Teleconverter
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1600 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[EdHarrison]

Here is my shot of the full moon from 19 July 2024 taken in the New Forest hand held. The moon was low on the horizon and had just cleared the tree line. I stacked 8 images in photoshop. I should also say that the images were taken after a bottle of wine with dinner and two negroni's, that could explain why the image is not as sharp as it could be!

View attachment 64341

Virtually the same composition as mine. It was just above the tree line when I shot mine too. Nice photo! Thanks for posting.

 

[evacguy]

As my photograph was taken on 19 July 2024, almost 55 years to the day after the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Buz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 crew, walked on the Moon on 20 July 1969, I thought I would annotate the photograph showing the landing site of the Eagle, the lunar lander from Apollo 11. This is just a screen grab of the original image with the landing site highlighted.

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[Richard A]

This is sort of a bit off topic but relates to @evacguy's pic above noting the landing place of Apollo 11. This is the CSIRO Parkes Observatory Radio Telescope. This radio telescope is where most of the TV footage from the moon landing and subsequent first steps on the moon were streamed to from Apollo 11 for distribution around the world. I took this with my little Sony RX100Miii in November 2020. It was a very hot day. About 42°C if I remember correctly. And very windy with a lot of flies!

• DSC-RX100M3
• 9.5 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 80

 

[Ralph]

The day we seen this we were heading home and the wife was crook and the kids didn't want to go and look at it closer so this is a trip I must do to see it.

 

[Richard A]

Ah, the joys of a family road trip, @Ralph. You should go back there. It’s a fair old drive from where you are I guess. We were returning from Sydney to Adelaide and it was during COVID so we weren’t allowed to go through Victoria. We had to come back via Broken Hill. Parkes is quite a nice town but a lot of other country towns haven’t fared so well unfortunately. There are a lot of interesting & historic places around the middle of NSW though.

 

[Ralph]

Ah, the joys of a family road trip, @Ralph. You should go back there. It’s a fair old drive from where you are I guess. We were returning from Sydney to Adelaide and it was during COVID so we weren’t allowed to go through Victoria. We had to come back via Broken Hill. Parkes is quite a nice town but a lot of other country towns haven’t fared so well unfortunately. There are a lot of interesting & historic places around the middle of NSW though.

We were coming back from Queensland and went through there and Dubbo and the kicks didn't even want to go to the zoo. But now my son has kids he is taking them to the places as a kid he said no to us. But it is a good idea to make a trip back.

 

[Richard A]

Ha, ha, when I was a kid my dad decided where we went and that was it! He did take us on some pretty interesting holidays though. I think I took my kids on some pretty good holidays. They always seemed to be pretty happy where we went.

 

[Ralph]

Ha, ha, when I was a kid my dad decided where we went and that was it! He did take us on some pretty interesting holidays though. I think I took my kids on some pretty good holidays. They always seemed to be pretty happy where we went.

Mine were just what is in it for them. So a few places I drove straight by in the hope it would see them understand but no. Thought it wasn't too many.

 

[evacguy]

The Moon over Valletta Malta on the 20th Sept 2024. Taken from the rear gardens of the Phoenicia Hotel.

The first image is the Moon over Valletta on the 20 Sept 2024. Taken from the rear garden of the Phoenicia Hotel using the Sony 70-200mm f2.8 GM II

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 400

The second image is a composite image of Moon over Valletta on the 20 Sept 2024. Taken from the rear garden of the Phoenicia Hotel. The Moon is taken with the 70-200mm lens @200mm while the image of the battlements was taken with the 24-70mm lens @40mm. The two images are blended together in Ps.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 40.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 16000

 

[evacguy]

99.8% Full Super Moon over Blackheath on 17 Oct 2024,

Same image, different post processing, not sure which is the better of the two?

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II + 2X Teleconverter
• 290.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II + 2X Teleconverter
• 290.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

 

[iamdlewis]

Tonight's moon

• Sony ILCE-1
• -- mm f/--