Monday, April 21, 2008

Full Moon Over Michigan

One of the joys of my new camera (a Nikon D60) is it's ability for astrophotography. Using the old, take a picture through a telescope by hand method, I was able to take this unfiltered picture of the moon (1/100 sec exposure). I, of course, am unable to manually compensate for sidieral motion (the motion of the stars caused by Earth's rotation), therefore I must buy a motorised tracking telescope mount eventually. I can do 30 second exposures which will allow a lot more light to show but tale-tale streaks, caused by Earth's rotation, show up instead of pinpoints of light.
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