{"id":93,"date":"2021-11-29T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/?p=93"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:13:46","slug":"shooting-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/29\/shooting-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/61storbit.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/dz66846-hdr-1.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-556\"\/><figcaption>First Quarter Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Astrophotography has not been easy these last 4 or 5 months. The British weather has been particularly challenging for those who photograph the skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who live on the south and west coasts, the weather has been better, but for me in the landlocked middle of England, it&#8217;s not been good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has only been a handful of clear night since last September and some of those have been near to full Moon, which is useless for most astrophotography.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late the other afternoon as the sun was setting, I managed to capture the Moon. This image has been made by stacking a handful of images together, which produces a better final image with more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two common mistakes made by many photographing the Moon for the first time. The Moon is small &#8211; it is about half a degree across (30 arc minutes). For a full frame camera, you need at least 600mm focal length to get a reasonable sized image. For an APS-C size sensor, a 400mm lens will achieve a similar result. The other issue is the Moon is very bright. A first quarter Moon may only need 1\/500s exposure, possibly less.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent attempt at photographing a first quarter Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrophotography","tag-astrophotography","tag-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rpkelley.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moon-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2560","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpkelley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}