The Space Stuff thread

MisterEd said:

Great shots. Since the moon is not stationary in the sky you need a relatively fast lens and short exposure to avoid a blurred image. Obviously your equipment was fast enough.

Back in 2002 I used my $900 Nikon Coolpix 995 to take photos of the moon through my Celestron C8 2000mm f/10 telescope. Since the Coolpix had a fixed lens I had to project the image through an eyepiece. For comparison here is one of the shots I took then. Note the photo is a composite of two separate photos since my field of view was not large enough to see the whole moon at one time. Your pictures turned out better than mine. Without a scope planets are
out or range but I am happy with what I have. Below the moon are photos of Jupiter and Saturn. They were a lot more challenging.

My pics are camera only, no gimmicks. I love your moon pic, excellent. MY camera cost me £889, which I think is on a par with your price, not sure. Regarding stellar movement, I believe 2 mins is the max exposure from a earth based camera. Mine was at a guess, 2-4 seconds

I've taken moon pictures, but they are NSFW

A Guy

elbmek said:

If pride is a sin, I am evil!!! My new camera and first time out to try and get shots of the moon.Some glitches but overall very happy indeed. Camera is a Nikon P1000 with 125 optical zoom and then a lesser digital zoom. All of these, I promise no photoshop, alI I have done is reduce them to 1024 for the net. There is a 'moon' button on the mode dial for stellar pics.

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Wow. They are very good.

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Watch live starting at 1:30 a.m. EDT (5:30 UTC), Fri., April 23, as four astronauts launch from Earth to their new home in space, the International Space Station.

At 5:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 UTC), the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will join the station's crew, for a mission of approximately six months.

This will be the first launch through our Commercial Crew Program to fly two international partner astronauts, and the first reuse of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket for a crew mission.

Once aboard the station, the Crew-2 astronauts will spend a lot of time on science — in areas such as medical technology, human health, and materials to benefit life on Earth. The space station is a unique scientific platform, enabling researchers from all over the world to put their talents to work on innovative experiments. It has instruments that monitor our home planet's global climate, environmental changes, and natural hazards.

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I was watching and listening to the NASA girl telling us some details. The screen then showed the whole room. I could see the girl reading from a teleprompter!!! I thought they were 'so clever' - my illusions have been shattered.

An item in a national paper today. NASA successfully extracted oxygen from the martian atmosphere in an experiment mounted on Perseverence. Enough for a human to breath for 10 minutes. MOXIS is the name of the experiment. To extract enough oxygen for people to breath would require a much larger device which could be carried with supplies pre humans.

MisterEd said:

What do you expect? She was probably a media relations person not an engineer. Besides I think it is important for people to get accurate information.

Its called sarcasm