Shoot the moon! (with a digital camera)

[Delonix]

Hi everybody,

As this is a forum for citizen science, I'm posting this add is to recruit volunteers for a small astronomy project.

The task is an easy one, you just have to take pictures of the moon on a specific date (any regular digital camera will do the work) and then send them to my email. I will post the results on my blog.

Please find the details here.

http://astroimagenes.blogspot.com/2010/ ... onomy.html

I encourage many people to participate, it's easy and the results will be interesting.

Questions or comments? ask all of them here, just reply this thread.

Thanks in advance,

Delonix.

[makc]

my comment would be that people have to align their cameras to horizon or else you have no data to work with

[Delonix]

Agree. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm writing better instructions on how to take the picture.

[Amir]

Hi,
looks really interesting & I'm in.
i just wanted to say that when i shoot the moon, there will be just a bright dot in the image due to wide angle, isn't better to take the it using a telescope?

[Delonix]

Amir,

Thanks for your interest in the project.

I think neither wide angle lenses or a telescope is needed to have a picture of the moon good enough for the project's goal.

A regular digital camera will do the job perfectly. You can zoom in if you want, but that's optional.

Thanks again,

Delonix.