Advice please?

[Yakman]

Hi I'm looking for advice on equipment for taking photos of the moon.
I have a Canon Rebel XTI coupled with the Canon 70-300mm IS lens. The pictures I'm currently gettting look pretty good but I would like a reasonable option to zoom in even closer.

Thanks for your advice and recommendations,
Yakman

[ziggy53]

Hi I'm looking for advice on equipment for taking photos of the moon.
I have a Canon Rebel XTI coupled with the Canon 70-300mm IS lens. The pictures I'm currently gettting look pretty good but I would like a reasonable option to zoom in even closer.

Thanks for your advice and recommendations,
Yakman

Yakman, welcome to the Digital Grin. :clap

Please use the following link to take you to a recent discussion in the Techniques forum:

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=104706

[AaronNelson]

heres another link to help in your efforts...

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=106981&highlight=5200mm

[Yakman]

Hi and thank you both for the welcome as well as the information.

Yakman

[Yakman]

Apparently all I need is a bit more lens!

[AaronNelson]

that should getter done.

[ziggy53]

Apparently all I need is a bit more lens!

Don't forget, we all have access to one of the most powerful telescopes ever conceived, the Hubble Space Telescope.

Here is Copernicus as imaged by the HST (about 2.4MB):

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1999/14/images/b/formats/full_jpg.jpg

... and this (around 500KB):

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1999/14/images/c/formats/full_jpg.jpg

The second image is resolving detail down to about 1 American football field across. Not bad for about 240,000 miles away. (384,400 km)

[AaronNelson]

so when are they going to prove they went to the moon? (not that i know one way or the other)

show me the equipment left behind...

[swintonphoto]

so when are they going to prove they went to the moon? (not that i know one way or the other)

show me the equipment left behind...

:rofl