The moon picture done from a hillbilly with wifes camera

i wanted to post this cause i sit outside and held real still..took me 10 minutes cause i shake alot lol
to take this picture freehand with my wifes camera.

and to me looks as good as one you see in books and what not.

You can zoom in on it more too.
i got more pictures of stuff ive took with the camera i think its magical lol

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What type of camera did you take this with? Seems pretty amazing.

Wow! super pretty! Yeah I agree what kinda camera is it?

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Thats a really good picture!

I'm a Hillbilly aswell,
I hail from Kentucky.

One of my favorite hobbies to sky gazing,
I have around 10 gigs of moon pictures
and about 20 gigs of moon video.


Your picture is amazing,
The best picture I ever got of the moon was through a telescope.

Thanks for sharing!
SnF!

-Evol Eric

Boy that is nice, I do the occasional astro-photos also

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im from kentucky as well lol
this is the camera i bought her .
i know nothing about camera the lady told me it was a good one idk.
www.walmart.com...
FujiFilm FinePix S2940 14MP Digital Camera with 18x Optical Zoom, 3.0" LCD Display
it does panoramic pictures ect..
if i put it on high res pictures/automatic the pictures are 5 to 8 mb each.
you can zoom in on a fly on a table...its kinda nice .

it says 18x zoom but it lies cause i zoom way up there way more than 18x if you take it off automatic the zoom is endless.
but it will blurr so u have to auto focus it ya self but when you do it.
i had a telescope some Meade thingy and this camera was better than it for looking at the moon and what not.

The best star gazing for me has been (when uncle sam issued them to me, and i had the down time)
Night Vision goggles......
Seriously, you see about 10x the number of stars.

The moon isn't actually real. It's made of string.

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Wow!

Nuff said.

Originally posted by ga-`tv-gi
Boy that is nice, I do the occasional astro-photos also

I hate light polution. Where I am there's maybe 50-100 stars in view on a good day, stood outside turning 360 and scanning the entire sky. At best if you pointed and zoomed a camera at any one direction you'd catch maybe 10 stars

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yeah man i hate light pollution too.
its sucks so bad here i decided to not buy the telescope i really wanted, maybe i'll get one in the summer and go camping.
i'll try not to sound like a geek here but astronomy rules.

Nice job! I love it. I used to tape my cheap digital camera to my crappy plastic telescope and get great shots. I also got some amazing stuff by attaching my thrift store binoculars to the digital camera. Re-riggin all that Fancyfied new fangled tek-no-logy is the funnest part.
must be my hillbilly roots...

Originally posted by listerofsmeg
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yeah man i hate light pollution too.
its sucks so bad here i decided to not buy the telescope i really wanted, maybe i'll get one in the summer and go camping.
i'll try not to sound like a geek here but astronomy rules.

I'm in Lancashire, light pollution seems to be bad all over the UK. I notice it especially when I look at images and videos from other countries. I'm astounded by how active the night sky is. It must be soul destroying for people with an interest in astronomy to move to the UK and see our near lifeless skies.

Still, there's something very humbling about lying down under the night sky on a clear night. My neighbours must think I'm a nutter but I often have a quarter of my curtain open, if not the whole thing, so I can see the skies at night.

Astronomy is something I know I'd enjoy but haven't gotten round to getting in to. Outside of a documentary or two I'm clueless.

Originally posted by listerofsmeg
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yeah man i hate light pollution too.
its sucks so bad here i decided to not buy the telescope i really wanted, maybe i'll get one in the summer and go camping.
i'll try not to sound like a geek here but astronomy rules.

Yeah me too, in London it's pretty bad, not to mention most nights being cloudy.

When I went to my cousins house in south of France I was amazed by the stars in the sky, I was looking up quite often and enjoying the view while hanging out with my cousin, she must have thought I was a bit weird lol.

Very nice I love to photograph the moon too!

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Very nice photo shoot there, kudos to you!

S&F from me!