Moon picture taken with the Z2 10x zoom

[iacopo]

Hi I am very happy with the 10x zoom of the Z2. Take a look at this picture of the moon I took a couple of hours ago.

It is a result of 15 pictures stacked with AsrtoStack.

[Tinsnail]

wow that looks good.
what is astrostack and what is it meant to do?

if it wasn't such a miserable night i might have gone outside and taken a picture myself

[iacopo]

AstroStack (http://www.astrostack.com/) is a piece of software that automatically stacks and averages several pictures of the same subject, thus increasing greatly the signal/noise ratio.

[Puck M]

iacopo wrote:

Hi I am very happy with the 10x zoom of the Z2. Take a look at this picture of the moon I took a couple of hours ago.

It is a result of 15 pictures stacked with AsrtoStack.

I'll bet you are happy with that image.It's great. I find it hard to believe you took that with only the Z2 and no telescope. I tried a shot a few minutes ago just to see what I'd get and just as I thought -little if any detail at all. That Astrostack program must work wonders. I'd like to see just one of your 15 shots to see what the program was starting with. I'd also like to know what settings you used on the Z2.

Puck

[iacopo]

hello here one of the single shots. It has some details but the stacked one is far better.

for the camera settings see the exif info. nothing particular except for manual exposure: f8 to get maximum sharpness and a correct shutter time to catch the most of the details

[Puck M]

iacopo wrote:

hello here one of the single shots. It has some details but the stacked one is far better.

for the camera settings see the exif info. nothing particular except for manual exposure: f8 to get maximum sharpness and a correct shutter time to catch the most of the details

The single shot is very good too! I can't access the exif info from an attachment - wish I could. I'd really like to see what you did. I'll set up the old tripod tomorrow night and see what I can do with various exposure times but I don't really expect anything like what you got.

[iacopo]

to see the exif just save the image to your pc (right mouse button on the image then choose save picture as...) and open with an editor say dimage viewer.

when you shoot remember to use self timer to avoid skaking the camera when you press the shutter button. this is very important.

[Puck M]

iacopo wrote:

to see the exif just save the image to your pc (right mouse button on the image then choose save picture as...) and open with an editor say dimage viewer.

when you shoot remember to use self timer to avoid skaking the camera when you press the shutter button. this is very important.

I tried again and got the exif info. I don't know why it didn't work last night. It must have been late and my mind wasn't working. That's a good tip about the self timer. I discovered that when I found these cameras have no remote shutter release option.

[lclarsen]

I just read the exif info and got an idea. How about setting the WB to "Sunlight" instead of "Auto" to get some natural colors? After all, the reflected lightfrom the moon is sunlight you know... ;-)

[iacopo]

interesting! next time i'll try. thanks for the advice