Photographing the moon

Why do people want to spend so much time and energy taking photo`s of a big drab ball of rock in the sky please enlighten.
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Dave

My Wife purchased me an bit of land on the Moon a few years back. I like to check make sure I've not got squatters

Think you will need a hubble bubble for that.
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Dave

Scuse me...a nice Nigerian gentleman gave me the moon as it "left to me in someone with the same surname's will"...so I think that I own all of the moon. I have written to the Chinese embassy with a parking charge for their Jade Rabbit which they've dumped up there.

Well for me, it's because it's a technical, rather than a creative problem to solve - mostly I don't do creativity too well.

As anyone who's tried will confirm, without a telescope, it's not as easy as it looks, and getting something with just a camera and a lens (admittedly a biggish one) that shows much more detail than you could ever see with the naked eye is quite satisfying, I find.

There are quite a lot of variables - you're very dependent on air quality, so it's not even possible to get a good shot of the moon a lot of the time.

Accurate focus can be tricky, and even the post processing on the computer isn't completely trivial.

So all in all, it's quite interesting, at least to me.

I'm looking forward to having a go with the K-3, and seeing if the results are any better than with the K-5.

Wot he said ^


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Because it's there...

What they said , and because it's very beautiful.... jeff..

Why did I photograph the moon...to see if I could see the WWII bomber that was parked there

I'd be far more impressed it it was another planet's moon

In a galaxy far, far away ???????

Because the end result is always viewed at 100 percent, it's a technical challenge getting a nice blur-free shot, and getting a good clean, noise-free image is the best sharpening practice you'll ever get; if you can show the colours of the minerals in the surface, even better! then you're going to be hooked.
I feel like I'm almost happy within the constraints of my kit, but not quite! Time to go to the Atlas mountains or somewhere, to get that last 10 percent

I've often wondered this. Having said that I have taken a couple of shots in the past but have no desire to do so any more.


I'm even more curious about taking photographs of stars. All the shots look like a sheet of black with a load of white dots splattered all over them.

It's a bit of a cliche if you ask me

TAv setting with manual focus, 500mm ISO 3200 shutter:1/1000 Aperture:F14 No exposure compensation.
Toby. I'm still learning with all the options available on the K-5. A regular minefield.
Also, the image has been cropped (obviously) to show as large as possible and is straight from the camera and no processing.

The stars and star trails comment is amusing. I've been wondering lately about simulating that with a single shot, some masking and a rotating/radial filter of some sort in photoshop. I expect this method would be significantly warmer to achieve also ...