{"id":2268,"date":"2012-03-14T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2012-02-22T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T07:20:10","slug":"iphone-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite numerous attempts, I had never managed a decent shot of the Moon using an iPhone.  When showing people how to do <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2236\" target=\"_blank\">afocal photography<\/a>, I have leaned how to make just about any compact camera perform nicely, but routinely seen nothing but trouble with cell phone cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Lunar photography is incredibly popular with folks using the telescope, a great activity for a night with a bright moon.  Long ago I found that an inexpensive 20-25mm Pl\u00f6ssl is a good match for the lens of most compact cameras. On a 1-2m focal length telescope this combination can produce very nice lunar photos.  The setup does not work with cell phone cameras.  Though people do try, the results have been routinely disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Working a resort star party recently, I discovered a combination of telescope and eyepieces that works very well.  A C11 telescope, an f\/6.3 focal reducer, and a 20mm Nagler type 2 eyepiece produced very nice photographs with several different cell phone cameras.  The result was a very happy audience and a lot of great lunar photos.  As people walked away from the telescope they were rapidly replaced by a crowd holding glowing screens, all wanting to get a nice lunar shot for themselves. I will have to explore other telescope\/eyepiece combinations to find another solution that does not involve a $500 eyepiece.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2267\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE40-81-12034-DC.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone Moon\" title=\"iPhone Moon\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE40-81-12034-DC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CE40-81-12034-DC-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eleven day old Moon, taken with an iPhone 3GS, a C11 and a 20mm Nagler 2 eyepiece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite numerous attempts, I had never managed a decent shot of the Moon using an iPhone. When showing people how to do afocal photography, I have leaned how to make just about any compact camera perform nicely, but routinely seen nothing but trouble with cell phone cameras. Lunar photography is incredibly popular with folks using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iPhone Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,182],"tags":[183,192,63,86],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}