Waxing Gibbous

[JimFox]

Just before heading out to dinner tonight I saw the moon was visible still just after the sunset and thought it would make a great shot.

This was with the Nikon D850 and the Nikon 70-300mm at 300mm and f5.6. I have found this to be a pretty sharp lens, though at 300mm it's a tad soft, especially compared to the really good long range lenses. I was surprised as to just the amount of detail and sharpness on the left side of the moon.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[JimFox]

BTW, this was about a 100% crop.

 

[Bob]

Very nice Jim.
Bob

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice detail.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Nice job! The full (or almost full) moon is a tough object, as it is so bright that detail tends to get washed out except on the limb. Your image has managed some surface detail throughout, and has very nice detail on the edge.

As you have also noted, even 300mm is not very long when it comes to solar system objects.

Looks like the D850 and lens combo did a fine job though, and good exposure made this work.

ML

 

[JimFox]

Very nice Jim.
Bob

Thanks Bob!

 

[JimFox]

Nice job! The full (or almost full) moon is a tough object, as it is so bright that detail tends to get washed out except on the limb. Your image has managed some surface detail throughout, and has very nice detail on the edge.

As you have also noted, even 300mm is not very long when it comes to solar system objects.

Looks like the D850 and lens combo did a fine job though, and good exposure made this work.

ML

Thank you Mike. Just getting the detail on the left side of the moon with what looks like craters was really amazing to me.

The one long lens I did have, a Sigma 12-500 or something like that I ended up selling due to lack of use. This 70-300mm is an inexpensive Nikon lens, but is surprisingly sharp. It doesn't take tele-converters though, so this is it in terms of how close I can get. I might have to look at getting something a little longer in the future. I don't have any means to track, but I can shoot the moon.