Buck Supermoon, July 2022

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manonthemoon2 · #1 Post by **manonthemoon2** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:50 pm

Only taken with my phone, so not a great photo. Maybe all our super photographers can get a good shot?

Bayleaf · #2 Post by **Bayleaf** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:30 am

Ooh, I'll get our son on the case - he's the keen astrologer in this house!

Sparkle · #3 Post by **Sparkle** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:39 am

I looked out at around 3am and wow what a golden whopper - look forward to seeing more photos,

elsie · #4 Post by **elsie** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:01 am

I took this last night at 22:50

moon12jul2022.jpg

Olympus E-M1mk11 75-300mm Zuiko zoom at 270mm
I went out at 22:30 to take some photos as it was getting dark and noticed a bright satellite crossing above the moon. Unfortunately I didn't have time to take any photos of the two.

elsie · #5 Post by **elsie** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:27 am

I've just checked on Stellarium and it was the ISS. If you use your imagination you can see the centre and solar panels either side in this very tiny crop

20220712_ISS.jpg

MAD87 · #6 Post by **MAD87** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:03 pm

Apparently it's visible tonight too - between 22.00 and 04.50. A comet is also due to be going across, but not visible to the naked eye.https://www.tf1info.fr/international/qu ... 25913.html

manonthemoon2 · #7 Post by **manonthemoon2** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:38 pm

Fantastic photos Elsie, I'm sure I've asked before, apologies for asking again, do you use a telescope with a camera or a powerful camera and lense?

My OH has a Nikon but he can't get a photo as good as yours, he only has an ordinary lense and a zoom lense.

Sorry Elsie, just seen details of your camera

elsie · #8 Post by **elsie** » Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:01 am

The lens is just a non-professional Olympus ED 75-300 mm f/4,8-6,7 II zoom, and nothing really special in terms of quality.

The problem is getting the manual focus correct - autofocus doesn't give as sharp an image. The camera has manual focus assist and magnify options. The focus point changes with the zoom which isn't a problem for most photos when using autofocus. But I set a zoom focal length and then go through the focus assist making sure I don't move the zoom. After that it is just a matter of setting the timer option to take the photo (I use 12 second delay to allow tripod vibration to cease or use a wireless remote shutter release. I also use the bracketing option to take a series of photos at different exposures. So I probably took over 80 RAW images last night at various focus and exposure settings and then just selected a few RAW from the rough JPGs to process.

manonthemoon2 · #9 Post by **manonthemoon2** » Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:23 am

Here is my very poor input tonight at about 22.30

MAD87 · #10 Post by **MAD87** » Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:37 am

I saw owt. Looked at 10.30 and at 2.

France in Focus

France in Focus