So you think you have nice moonshots, eh?

[Romy Ocon]

Check out this mosaic of 21 images taken with a 230 mm diameter scope (link posted by Lee Jay at DPR). For comparison, the Sigmonster's diameter is a mere 143 mm, and that means the scope used has a main glass which is about 2.6x as large as the Sigmonster's.

objectstyle.org/astronominsk/Moon/Moon2009/Moon_20090113_en.htm



**Sigmonster Tamer accesses his hard drives to delete all his moonshots. **

[Lydia Robledo]

te lyds...singing... I see the moon and the moon sees me, God bless the moon and God bless and me. Awesome. Awesome Creator!

[Mark Itol]

Whoa! Simply awesome.




<sub>Now I foresee it'll only be a matter of time before the Tamer of Sigmonster upgrades his title -- with this? ;D

From here.</sub>

[Teddy Regpala]

Hhhmmm.
Telescopes are much cheaper, relative to big glass.
Should I invest on T-adapters na. ;D
(ooops, bokeh will look bad)

Mar 12, 2009 15:39:04 GMT Mark Itol said:

<sub>Now I foresee it'll only be a matter of time before the Tamer of Sigmonster upgrades his title -- with this? ;D

From here.</sub>

I think I can do birding from the parking lot with that one. Hehehe.

[ppaaoolloo]

His tools were designed to do that specific task. ask it to shoot a bird and I bet it can do justice to a Magnolia dressed chicken 3km away.

[Romy Ocon]

Mar 13, 2009 17:14:10 GMT @ppaaoolloo said:

....{snip}..... ask it to shoot a bird and I bet it can do justice to a Magnolia dressed chicken 3km away.

Hehe..... what's the bet? I might take it up. ;D ;D ;D


The telescope used is large, but it's not that super-powerful. To put it in perspective, the Sigmonster's or 800 5.6L's main glass diameter is about 143 mm (800 mm/5.6). If we use this scope at a brightness of f/5.6, the focal length will be 230 mm x 5.6, or roughly 1288 mm. Thus, the scope has about 1.61x the reach of the 800 mm lenses.

In my experience, 800 mm on a 1.6x sensor (e.g. 40D, 50D, etc.) can just about fill the frame with a chicken sized subject at a distance of 30 meters or so. Thus, the said scope can do the same framing at circa 48.3 meters (0.048 km)..... this is way off 3 km.

[Ronnie Dominguez]

I still like moonshot from the previous post of Master Romy. And I'm not deleting my many moonshots just yet (hirap yata ako mag-handheld nun ah and at the middle of a street pa taken).
Bet though that Lee Jay cant handhold his gear.







from www.flickr.com/photos/ronspic4you2c2
Ronnie

[ppaaoolloo]

I withdraw my bet. You crunch numbers.

Mar 14, 2009 15:25:25 GMT Romy Ocon said:

Hehe..... what's the bet? I might take it up. ;D ;D ;D


The telescope used is large, but it's not that super-powerful. To put it in perspective, the Sigmonster's or 800 5.6L's main glass diameter is about 143 mm (800 mm/5.6). If we use this scope at a brightness of f/5.6, the focal length will be 230 mm x 5.6, or roughly 1288 mm. Thus, the scope has about 1.61x the reach of the 800 mm lenses.

In my experience, 800 mm on a 1.6x sensor (e.g. 40D, 50D, etc.) can just about fill the frame with a chicken sized subject at a distance of 30 meters or so. Thus, the said scope can do the same framing at circa 48.3 meters (0.048 km)..... this is way off 3 km.