Moon images

Panasonic FZ20

2004-10-23-2335-01

Panasonic FZ5


2005-04-23-2223-53 (ISO 80)	2006-04-05-1936-12 Very hazy conditions WB = daylight (ISO 100)	2006-04-06 Excellent seeing (ISO 100)

Lunar Eclipse: 2007-03-03-2240 UTC, excellent seeing. Note the two stars in the picture, one near lower left and the other near the moon at about 4 o'clock. The focussing was not as good as some of the images above. (ISO 100)

The hazy image of 2006 April 05 doesn't do the camera justice!

All images unretouched, cropped with JPEGCROP. Both the FZ5 and FZ20 are 5MP cameras, from around April 2005 and November 2004 respectively.

Images from Others....

From Roger Clarke, Canon 20D - includes some interesting further processing of the image.

From "mianileng", March 2006, Panasonic FZ20 - also shows the orange tint. "The tint problem was made worse in my case because of a type of atmospheric pollution peculiar to my region in this season. Villagers still use the traditional method of growing the main crop - rice - by cutting down everything in designated tracts of forest-jungle and then burning them when they've dried out. The smoke stays up for weeks or months until it's cleared by heavy rains, and causes a shift in the spectrum of sunlight towards red-orange. I'll see if I can get a better result by using WB for incandescent light. Levels of other types of pollution are still quite low here."

From Mike - Canon Digital Rebel (300D) - using Sigma 70-300mm zoom. Mike subsequently wrote: I would like to inform you that since this time I made much better pictures with the (better) 50-500mm Sigma. The thumbnails are available here (70-300mm) and here (50 - 500mm - including last eclipse from Canada East coast), or, the first Moon image is here. These are unresized crops.

From Kent Clarke - using an FZ30. "The RAW and attached jpg are available, as well as a tiff that has had some noise removal, levels and sharpening. This was hand-held, with poor seeing."

From "mianileng", May 2006 - Panasonic FZ20, 432mm equivalent, ISO 100, f4.6, 1/125 sec (manual), Auto WB, Auto focus (spot), Sharpness, contrast, brightness, saturation at "Standard" (medium), High-quality JPEG, cropped with Irfanview and saved as 100% JPG. No post processing.

Although not directly related to the experiments, Michael Myers' site has some interesting pictures and information.

Some lunar eclipse photos with the Olympus SP-560 UZ by "helpman77".