The moon, tonight, with my New Absurd Lens

[fivemack]

It's near-enough full moon, so the rays from the craters are particularly visible; click on the image to get a bigger version with labels. The moon looks about as big as a shelduck two hundred feet away, so I'm expecting to get some quite nice pictures when I have spare time on a sunny weekend and go over to Fen Drayton lakes.

Comments

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nice.

How absurd is your lens?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

How absurd? The lens is powerful enough to show the lettering on the Moon's maria and craters.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

It's the universally-well-reviewed Tamron 150-600; it weighs two and a bit kilos, it's sufficiently stabilised that I could take that moon picture hand-held. Taking a picture of Jupiter produced a resolved but unimpressive result.

[rwl.livejournal.com]

Try again on Jupiter with multiple images and Registax.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Not bad!