How I Captured My Most Detailed Image of the Moon 

Ouch that sounds rough! Good luck!

@@astrofalls unfortunately for me, the clouds piled up and I wasn't able to see anything, so my trip was canceled.

Do not discourage you if everything is not working on the firsts nights. It's a learning curve, start easy with short focal lenght if possible and make your guiding good. This is the most important to not loose time on the nights. You can learn most of the rest by day ;)

For real! Makes me think it might be better to use a smaller sensor faster camera now that this is possible

Correct, but with MPM, the software can only set the mount to sidereal due to software limitations

It’s because of the drift compensation acting up, hasn’t done that before usually. And I think the mount does go to lunar tracking

Could be a number of things but yes focal length magnifies any vibrations and the atmosphere creates waves kinda like on a super hot day on a long stretch of road how it looks wobbly and wavy in the distance pretty crazy how much affects images with astrophotography

when you hit the physical limit of the mount and you'll need to reset

@@CBikeLondon thanks for the explanation

If he bought it new about 4400 US dollars. You can see the link to the various prices of all of his equipment under his description. I suspect the whole rig was around 10,000 US dollars.

But is it optical Zoom? If not, then it's not that useful, is it? Optics are diffraction limited anyways.

This didn’t age well 💀

It doesn't

It's a composite for a reason

Ligma

I get what you’re saying... if you have a preconception as to how you think the moon should look, you’re going to manipulate whatever imagery you have to curate that outcome.

Either have Rich parents or get a couple of jobs and start saving your money because this is very expensive what you see here.

While Astrodad is right, you can spend insane amounts of money, things like shooting the moon can be done for next to nothing. An old mirrorless like the EOS M can be obtained for about $150 and a lens that does the trick can be found for $100-$300 depending on age, desired focal length and "speed". Add a cheap tripod and you're good to go with the moon or our incredible Milky Way core. As another option, an old Dobsonian scope could also be picked up for a few hundred dollars and you can even shoot through the eyepiece with any newer cell phone with pretty satisfying results. Just add gear as your interests and skills grow. :)