To all at UHH.

Thanks for viewing! If you click on Download and look closely at the moon, at the upper left you can see a little dot in the hazy brightness: that is Spica.

Thanks Wheezer! I treated myself to an early Christmas present, a Canon 15-85, and am loving it. An excellent walkaround lens.

V. useful - thanks for posting that!

Thanks Sudzmonn!

Mercury (lower left, just above the horizon), aligning with Venus, Saturn and a lovely crescent moon unfortunately behind some cloud.

Apologies. The file is jpf format, not jpg - I'll see if I can convert it and repost.

Mercury (lower left, just above the horizon), aligning with Venus, Saturn and a lovely crescent moon unfortunately behind some cloud.

You can get a remote control for a couple of dollars on Ebay. Combine that with a tripod and you should be all set. Good luck with this!

Thanks Jerry! I can't resist going for the moon at any opportunity.

The clouds cleared for a while, but the transparency was not great and neither was the seeing, but you have to go with what you have.
Canon 60D on a 150mm reflector telescope. ISO 400, 1/1000th, wireless remote shutter release, 5.46 pm. I usually shoot the moon at ISO 100, but thought I would try a higher setting to get a faster shutter speed, as my telescope seems to wobble at the slightest touch. I think it helped a bit.

Moon 22 Nov. 2012

Great shots! But re. #4 - Skagway, Alaska, is near the borders of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. Newfoundland is off the east coast of the continent.

Smokin' ;)

Thanks Robbie!

Dellen...: how did you manage to get the moon with a background of stars? I don't recall seeing that before. Re. tripod: have you considered a gimbal head? The bees knees for birding, but I don't know how it would work out celestial work.

I should have posted this in the astrophotography section - sorry about that, I'm a newby. But to answer your question, yes, you are right. With a telescope, 150mm refers to the size (diameter) of the tube - the opening, or light-gathering capacity (as with spotting scopes). Nothing to do with the focal length. I think the focal length of this telescope is 750 mm (not huge as telescopes go). So with the crop factor of the camera, that puts it in the range of about a 1000 mm telephoto lens equivalent. The image is fairly heavily cropped, by the way. The settings were ISO 100, 1/200th, manual mode - arrived at by trial and error.
Thanks for looking!