No it is not an edited photo and I thought I had lost the picture. I took this in march 2007 and the cause of it going red ?
This will amaze you, it was the result of a violent Sahara sand storm which threw up fine particles into the upper atmosphere causing a red mist and producing a red moon
I was browsing through my photos looking for something else when I came across this photo I took during a total eclipse of the moon, so I thought I would add it. The red is caused by refraction of the sun’s light through the earth’s atmosphere but it is very red for many seconds…
Not as red
nice shots. What type of lens do you need to get this level of detail (say on a Nikon)?
It depends on which version of Nikon camera used , FF -Full frame or DX crop mode If your talking about a DSLR (digital single lens reflex). the DX models have a1.5x crop factor. Or are you using a small compact type of Nikon camera?
Also how close to want to get a photo of
But to answer your question
I would suggest nothing less than 300mm lens. However that is not all to getting a good image.
First having a clear night sky -next using a tripod to avoid camera shake- editing to make the most of the photo which when cropped in can also enlarge the picture
The closer one gets parts of the moon will go out of focus as seen in my first picture.
There is no set answer though, it all depends on what you want in taking a photo of the moon. Obviously you want the best but as I said it all depends on which Nikon camera you use and what it can produce
It’s a D3400. I really should be learning more about it’s potential functionality. I have a 35mm lens and an 18-55mm lens.
aha I see. That sounds very expensive.
If I were you I would look at used on ebay
I have at the moment an 80 _400 mm lens for sale on another forum at £ 850
Wow, Astrophotography has always fasinated me but no idea how to do it well and the light pollution round here means it would most likely be an uphill battle.
Fantastic photos everyone - thank you for sharing them.
All I can is how I did it.
For that real close up shot I had one of those lenses that go up to 2600mm with a doubler fitted ( Opteka 650-1300mm (with 2x- 1300-2600mm). loads of problems getting that shot not only that the lens fully extended did not stay rigid but had a lot of movement on the joints
However apart from struggling with that lens other issues came into play.
Setting the camera and lens onto the tripod (manfrotto 055XPROB)in the dark not a good idea.
that was taken on a very very cold winter night about 2am or thereabouts and it was freezing cold but the sky was so unbelieavably clear.
OK next was hunting for the moon, yes sounds silly but true, working that close the amount of sky is limited to the nth degree. In the end I had to predict the moons path well in advance and wait for it to come into view on the screen. Never realise how fast the moon goes until your working that close. Miss it once and takes too long to set up again and if captured in frame you only get a part of it. So continuous fast frame shots and hope one is ok
then there is the focus issue apart from the other camera settings. You can only get a part of the moon in focus so I went for the edge to show the craters better.
If you manage all that even then the photo needs a lttle work done on it in Post Processing (PP). Getting crater shadows to stand out and may even have to crop some of the photo and other tweekings may be necessary
