[TheEmpty]

It looks like a moldy, white orange.

[@Tom]

ThatRailsGuy, on 09 May 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

It looks like a moldy, white orange.

This is true, but I am taking a picture fairly far away, Wish I had a better lens to really see those craters.

[Lemon]

EXIF says it was 1/500 second

Tried this myself a year or so ago but only had a 250mm to hand so the pictures didn't have much detail. However, what I found the most mesmerising was to just setup the camera on a tripod and watch the moon drift across the frame and consider how awesome it is that we have been there and yet how sad it is we haven't been further.

[@Tom]

Lemon, on 09 May 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

EXIF says it was 1/500 second

Tried this myself a year or so ago but only had a 250mm to hand so the pictures didn't have much detail. However, what I found the most mesmerising was to just setup the camera on a tripod and watch the moon drift across the frame and consider how awesome it is that we have been there and yet how sad it is we haven't been further.

I had to end up setting my camera on 10 second timers because just touching the camera would make it shake, mine too was on a tripod,

What I really wanted was time lapse with the star paths from having the stars rotate around the moon but the stupid moon moved quickly that everything just blurred. And yea I got some of my pics switched up, I tried bunch of different settings. Ill edit the post. 1/500s


Goal was a picture like this one but with the moon instead of a tree,

[Mack]

Lemon, on 09 May 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

EXIF says it was 1/500 second

Tried this myself a year or so ago but only had a 250mm to hand so the pictures didn't have much detail. However, what I found the most mesmerising was to just setup the camera on a tripod and watch the moon drift across the frame and consider how awesome it is that we have been there and yet how sad it is we haven't been further.

The sad part to me isn't that we haven't gotten further, but that we're no longer capable of getting to the moon. For some reason, the general public in the US thinks NASA is a waste, so there's no funding to do anything.

itom07, on 09 May 2012 - 06:09 PM, said:

Goal was a picture like this one but with the moon instead of a tree

Unfortunately, you won't be able to get both the moon and the stars in the same photo without a composite. For starters, the moon is very bright compared to the stars, either the moon would be washed out or the stars wouldn't be visible. Also as you said, the moon moves pretty fast. But most importantly, the stars appear to rotate around the northern star so they wouldn't be centered around the moon.

Here's one of the star trails shots I've taken:


Also, this is a test time lapse I recorded when trying to get the day to night part down. Unfortunately it took me so long to get it working in this test that I missed the sunset, so it's not a very good test. The moon isn't in this video, but you can see how bright even some stars are relative to the rest, and the moon is even brighter.

[@Tom]

Yea I understand I can't get both (espicially with the brightest moon of the year) but why not try:). As to NASA it too disappoints me, we should go and hey have a moon base. But to be fair NASA overcharges a lot, if we took 10% of their budget and offered it as a reward for first people to put a base there then let NASA improve it. I think we'd be there in 3 years.

[Quinn]

itom07, on 09 May 2012 - 06:41 PM, said:

Yea I understand I can't get both (espicially with the brightest moon of the year) but why not try:). As to NASA it too disappoints me, we should go and hey have a moon base. But to be fair NASA overcharges a lot, if we took 10% of their budget and offered it as a reward for first people to put a base there then let NASA improve it. I think we'd be there in 3 years.

NASA's entire budget since its founding is less than what was spent on the middle east wars since 2001.

[Lemon]

Mack, on 09 May 2012 - 06:28 PM, said:

The sad part to me isn't that we haven't gotten further, but that we're no longer capable of getting to the moon. For some reason, the general public in the US thinks NASA is a waste, so there's no funding to do anything.

I don't mind too much that we haven't revisited the moon, as it doesn't hold quite as much scientific interest as going further afield. Besides, some of the newer space agencies in China or India have expressed their own interest in the moon amidst various other ambitions, leaving NASA , FKA and ESA open to looking at bigger projects. A lot has also changed politically, the idea of Russia and the US cooperating on a joint space program would have seemed almost ridiculous during the space race; nowadays it saves duplicating the effort and pools the expertise. However, the fact that we are now restrained to low earth orbit is evidence of a far more limited budget and more bureaucracy.

In all, the Apollo missions really galvanised a wide public interest in science that I feel the world needs to be reminded of by an equal spectacle in the coming years; I'm tentatively hopeful that the new Orion manned spacecraft might be what we are waiting for.

A quote I read just today and liked the gist of: "We got to the moon because they were too young and stupid to know it was impossible."

[Mack]

Lemon, on 09 May 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:

I don't mind too much that we haven't revisited the moon, as it doesn't hold quite as much scientific interest as going further afield.

It's not the fact that we haven't revisited the moon that annoys me, it's the fact that we can't even if we wanted to.

[iCyan]

Lemon, on 09 May 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:

the idea of Russia and the US cooperating on a joint space program would have seemed almost ridiculous during the space race;

Au contraire, On September 20, 1963, Kennedy proposed a joint space (moon landing) effort between the USSR and the US, having built some trust between the two nations in light of the recent Cuban missile crisis. The USSR was poised to accept the proposed deal, but the idea was dropped after Kennedy’s assassination.

Agree with you on the other stuff though, space has always held a certain level of intrigue with me. Nice quote as well...

EDIT: Not to say that people didn't find the idea ridiculous, in fact, it could very well have played a role leading up to Kennedy's assassination as others might have viewed this as a love for communism or something...

[SapporoGuy]

Nice pictures!
Had crap weather and by the time the colds cleared the moon was smaller than some of the harvest moons I've seen

@ NASA
The moon landing was a hoax!
Or at least there is some very compelling reason not to do it again!

Over 40 years now and nada, man, nada? So wassup? Why no mojo jojo?

I'm just hoping will see a Mars landing instead.

[Lemon]

SapporoGuy, on 10 May 2012 - 12:09 AM, said:

@ NASA
The moon landing was a hoax!
Or at least there is some very compelling reason not to do it again!

Over 40 years now and nada, man, nada? So wassup? Why no mojo jojo?

I'm just hoping will see a Mars landing instead.

Seriously...?

Not sure that really warrants a full response, so Mitchell and Webb will have to do instead:

[@Tom]

Lemon, on 10 May 2012 - 05:21 AM, said:

Seriously...?

Not sure that really warrants a full response, so Mitchell and Webb will have to do instead:

Hence my signature, for all sapparoguy's responses (especially the dinosaur ones from the reliable rabbit critique)