Two second exposure right after the previous image.
I would really like to be able to show more detail, but either the D40x is unable to capture the level of detail, or I need a bigger tele. The RAW images I took didn't turn out any better. Then again I haven't really had much practice with this yet.
Two young lads, around nine or so, and their dog stopped to see what I was doing.
After I explained what was happening to the Moon, I directed them towards the Big Dipper; they knew the shape but had only ever seen it in pictures, and they were able to tell Mizar and Alcor apart. They'd never noticed the Milky Way before, or the slanted W in the sky that is Cassiopeia. Jupiter shone like a little red dot west of the Moon, which was pretty cool. And a look at the moon, half covered by Earth's shadow, through the binoculars that I'd brought along, showed it like the sphere that it really is, rather than just a flat yellow chunk of cheese. I think they discovered that the sky is a cool thing even when it isn't on TV.
I would really like to be able to show more detail, but either the D40x is unable to capture the level of detail, or I need a bigger tele. The RAW images I took didn't turn out any better. Then again I haven't really had much practice with this yet.
Two young lads, around nine or so, and their dog stopped to see what I was doing.
After I explained what was happening to the Moon, I directed them towards the Big Dipper; they knew the shape but had only ever seen it in pictures, and they were able to tell Mizar and Alcor apart. They'd never noticed the Milky Way before, or the slanted W in the sky that is Cassiopeia. Jupiter shone like a little red dot west of the Moon, which was pretty cool. And a look at the moon, half covered by Earth's shadow, through the binoculars that I'd brought along, showed it like the sphere that it really is, rather than just a flat yellow chunk of cheese. I think they discovered that the sky is a cool thing even when it isn't on TV.
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