{"id":197,"date":"2020-10-03T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T18:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2020-10-04T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:44:24","slug":"shooting-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-1040x1040.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Crescent-Moon.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Waxing crescent moon shot with Nikon D3100, 500mm f\/8 manual focus, 1\/15 second at ISO 800<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=132\">Last year<\/a> I got a reasonably sharp photo of a full moon with a Nikon D7200 using the $500 Nikkor 18-300mm zoom lens at f\/6.3, 1\/160 second, ISO 160.  This month I pulled out an old Nikon D3100 and a <a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2445-scaled.jpg\">$100 catadioptric 500mm f\/8 lens<\/a> for a bigger challenge: The cheaper lens really falls short in terms of sharpness.  Here is the best I could do with each lens (the more recent shot on the right is colored by atmospheric smoke from western wildfires):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?attachment_id=133\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20191112-DSC_2396-640x640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Nikon D7200, 300mm f\/6.3, 1\/160 second at ISO 160<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"201\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?attachment_id=201\" class=\"wp-image-201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-1040x1040.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-v2.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Nikon D3100, 500mm f\/8, 1\/8 second at ISO 800<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Planets-20201003-e1601749655391.png\">right now there are some interesting astronomical phenomena:  Mars is near its closest approach to earth<\/a> and is visible to the naked eye.  Here the moon passes about one degree below the red plant (top left):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-1001x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-1001x1024.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-768x786.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-1501x1536.jpg 1501w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-2001x2048.jpg 2001w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-1040x1064.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Moon-and-Mars-640x655.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption>Mars, top left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I turned the camera on Jupiter, which is presently close to Saturn and very prominent in the night sky.  With the same lens, shooting 1\/2 second at ISO 800, I get the following photo showing all four Galilean moons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"543\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Jupiter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Jupiter.jpg 543w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/500mm-Jupiter-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><figcaption>Jupiter and moons Ganymede, Io, Europa (all left of the planet) and Callisto (far right)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I got a reasonably sharp photo of a full moon with a Nikon D7200 using the $500 Nikkor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-skies","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}