My moon shots were all blurry for 2 years. Found out why yesterday.

I've been into astrophotography for a while. Always wondered why my moon photos looked soft. Thought it was my cheap telescope or just bad seeing conditions. Turns out I was focusing on the wrong part of the moon. The edge, not the terminator line where shadows define craters. A guy on Cloudy Nights pointed it out from one of my pics. Anyone else make dumb focusing mistakes for way too long?

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margaret_bennett319d ago

Oh wow, I totally feel your pain on this one! I spent a solid year wondering why my moon shots had this weird fuzziness around the edges, and it turned out I was cranked up to 100% zoom on my lens which just magnified every bit of atmospheric turbulence. Once I backed off to about 50-60% and focused manually on the sharpest contrast near the terminator, everything started looking way crisper. It's amazing how one little tweak like that can make all the difference after all that frustration, isn't it?

finley93919d ago

@margaret_bennett3 you nailed it. The terminator trick changed my moon photos completely too.