A simply horrible photo

Just to be sure I put something out I'm including this as an example of a bad photoof the moon through an eyepiece.

This is blurry and doesn't show any decent detail. The telescope shows so much more detail and fine quality than this junky photo I have to make excuses.

Why is it difficult to take a good photo at the eyepiece? Well there's a sweet spot, you need to hold the camera injust the right position and the iPhone 3 gs needs to set focus and exposure via a target which you can pick with a touch of your finger on the face of the phone. Then touching the phone to trigger the photo moves it aa well. You also don't have a zoom capacity to get a decent framing or vary the exposure. So you en up with shots like this.

This should have a lot more detail and there's probably 100 times more detail at the eyepiece.



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