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.
Using standard screws, the device can be easily assembled and disassembled.
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.
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!
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!
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.
