Is it possible to photograph the Moon at home?
“It’s possible,” will answer the person who has never held a camera in his hands.
“No,” the professional will answer. To do this, you need expensive photographic equipment costing at least $1,500. A regular camera will only capture a small luminous dot. Try it!
I made myself a simple photo gun, consisting of a digital point-and-shoot camera with 3x zoom and cheap Chinese binoculars with 12x magnification.
This is the future photo gun.
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Using standard screws, the device can be easily assembled and disassembled.
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The device is in the “combat” position. It is impossible to photograph the Moon from a conventional tripod, since the shutter speed is several seconds, and small gusts of wind will “smear” the entire picture. The best tripod in this case is a bench vice.
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General view of the photo gun. In 30 sec. ordinary binoculars and a digital point-and-shoot camera turn into a powerful device that can be used to shoot video with up to 36x magnification!
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I always take a photo gun with me when I travel. After all, it is not always possible to photograph a bird from a distance of five steps. And a person from a distance of a hundred meters will not notice that he is being filmed close-up.Currently I am making an optical tandem consisting of a camera with 5x zoom and binoculars with 18x magnification. The total magnification is 90 times!
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Photo of the Moon taken with my homemade photo gun. The image is left at its original resolution. The craters and “seas” are clearly visible.
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