Moon from orange to white by telescope last night

In this article are posted photos with Nikon D80 and Sony CX-130 by astronomical telescope.

Photos through the telescope and DSLR below, are in chronological order as the rising of the Moon in the sky last night in Baia Mare, Romania. At 9:20 p.m., the Moon rose and was at the horizon. Therefore, it was more reddish in color. This is because the Earth's atmosphere produces this color. The amount of air is much bigger in quantity when you look horizontally than observing the sky vertically.

When the Moon is on the horizon, it is recommended to take artistic photos, with buildings, mountains, trees, monuments, etc. To shoot the Moon craters details, I recommend you to wait for the Moon to rise up in the sky for the Moon, to escape the heavy atmosphere. The same thing happens with any celestial body, whether it is a planet, star, comet, etc.

As you look at these pictures, taken later, Moon's color changes from orange to white, and is much brighter. Unlike the first picture, the latter are clearer.

Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Date: September 3, 2012 at: 9:20 p.m. to 11:04 p.m.
Telescope: Celestron 8 "Newtonian reflector
Eyepiece: no (T ring)
Camera: Nikon D80
Maximum aperture: F1

Exposure / ISO:

Picture 1 - 1/20 sec, 500
Picture 2 - 1/320 sec, 1000
Picture 3 - 1/500 sec, 1000
Picture 4 - 1/500 sec, 320

Below, is the same Moon but the pictures are captures taken by video camera Sony HDR CX-130.

Optics Telescope Celestron C8 "-Newtonian, 20mm Plössl
Mount: CG5 (EQ5) motorized
Device: Sony CX-130
Video Mode: Full HD 1920x1080 progressive
Filter: no
Date: 03/09/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: FastStone

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How to take pictures of the Moon

Focal image - celestron 8" and nikon D80 with T ring                                            

Afocal image - celestron 8" and HDR sony CX105                     

It depends on what kind of device you have.And if you have a telescope, it's better.Without telescop.This simple metod is to straighten the camera to the Moon and hit the buton.But matters what settings you gave to the camera.With the mobile phone cameras would come out of the question to make something nice.They don't have an optical zoom, but digital.The difference between the two of them is that with the optical zoom lens, is the same as you would move to the object and take a picture.Instead, the digital zoom, increases your digital pixels, instead of approaching to the object, with the effect of "collapse" of the picture.The pixels are seen increasingly bigger as you zoom and the photo will not be so clear.
     So it's very important to have an optical device that approach, not digital.The only way to take beautiful pictures is to not zoom, and the Moon to be already close, so it is recommended to be used only by the eyepiece of the telescope through which the image is already good in the front of your camera.And if the device (even as mobile phone), has some more megapixels, the picture can get really incredible.
    With an optical zoom camera, the pictures come out more better(not always).The moon is clear.Fixed on the tripod to be stable, and the settings you need, you would like what that camera will do.Of course, digital cameras are now in vogue.Do not confuse digital zoom,with  digital camera.The digital camera has optical zoom lens (attached or not), these two things are different.
    The best to take in consideration in settings of a digital cameras with optical zoom DSLR (digital single-lens reflex), is in my opinion ISO light sensitivity that is entering into the camera, and the exposure time.Who has a camera or a phone camera, can see ISO in options menu .
     If the ISO is set lower, when it is dark, the resulting image will be the same as darker.but when is set bigger,the picture will be brighter, even if it's dark.
   Exposure time.In photography, shutter speed is a common term used to discuss the exposure, that is the actual length of time of exposure to light on the sensor.More the CCD is open to light ,The more the picture is even brighter when is dark, releasing details that not even your eyes can see at that moment.
    The telescope images can be made focal and afocal.Focal means to mount the camera without any objective, directly to the telescope,and take pictures through the ocular.Afocal pictures are achieved when you mount your video or photo camera in front of the telescope's eyepiece.

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