It was another beautiful clear evening tonight to view the lovely crescent Moon which is now above Saturn in the western sky after sunset. I was also able to capture the light from the Earth on the lunar surface with just my camera and lens setup, this is called Earthshine and it’s very interesting to see.
For the close up image below, you have to play around with the settings in your camera a bit to capture the soft light of the Earthshine in the one shot, some astrophotographers take two images and merge them together, but I’ve just done the one image to show what it really looks like in the sky…
Both images were taken at Bendemeer in NSW with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens on a tripod, the first image was a 2 second exposure with the lens set at 70mm and ISO 800. With the Earthshine image I added a 2x converter to the Tamron lens which was set at 300mm making it a focal length of 960mm, the exposure was 1.6 seconds and ISO1600.
For the close up image below, you have to play around with the settings in your camera a bit to capture the soft light of the Earthshine in the one shot, some astrophotographers take two images and merge them together, but I’ve just done the one image to show what it really looks like in the sky…
Both images were taken at Bendemeer in NSW with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens on a tripod, the first image was a 2 second exposure with the lens set at 70mm and ISO 800. With the Earthshine image I added a 2x converter to the Tamron lens which was set at 300mm making it a focal length of 960mm, the exposure was 1.6 seconds and ISO1600.
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