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Everyone's been having good luck grabbing the full moon, but we've had thunderstorms and forest fire smoke here until this evening, so I decided to go out and give it a shot...

The moon was tinted from the smoke, but the upside was a slower shutter speed which allowed some good details of the lunar surface.

I even grabbed a shot of Jupiter with a few of her moons (it's the bright "star" near the moon). The shot is not Hubble quality, but it's cool that my 70-300 can pull 'em in. If the moon wasn't so bright, the quality would be better, so I adjusted the contrast a little for clarity. There's 3 moons to the right of Jupiter, two are very close together, and look like one. To the left, there's one for sure and possibly one more further out.
 

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evangilder said:
Nice ones, Dave. I thought about trying a Jupiter shot yesterday, but I have too many trees in the way.
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I have bunch of trees here too. So I drug my camera tripod out to the street (at 12:30 a.m.) and grabbed a shot that way!

ontos said:
Nice shots,Dave. I think the smoke adds to the mood of the shot. Wouldn't it nice to afford a telescope with a camera attachment ? 8)
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Oh trust me, I have thought about that for years!

It's really not all that expensive, either. But I find that my camera does a broad range of things a telescope/camera can't, so when I can grab a stellar object like the moon or even Jupiter, I'm happy enough!
 
Thanks Aaron!

To be honest, I was looking at a Sigma APO 800mm f5.6 EX DG HSM. This baby is about three steps beyond cool! It's also about 8,000 dollars...

Soooo...I look and I lust, but that's about it
 
Just happened to have the camera handy this morning when a couple Rufous Hummingbirds showed up in the Oak tree by my deck...

Also caught a female Woodpecker the other day

This Oak tree attracts all sorts of birds, but the Hummingbirds (all types) like to sit and rest in it, just never when I have my camera!
 

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ontos said:
Nice shots, I use the Elmer's myself. Great Woodpecker shot. I've been trying to get mine to sit still but won't cooperate yet.8)
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Use a BB gun then stick 'em up there with duct tape

 
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