You are right. the moon is typically 0.5 degrees
in the sky. according to my calculations it would
take more like 2400mm to fillm the fram vertically!
WOW thats a hell of a long lens....
JCO
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: my first moon shot
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:05:24 -0400, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
> I did a moon shot a couple of years ago with my
> 1000mm F8 tele-takumar that came out pretty nice but
> even the 1000mm didnt fill the frame. I would estimate
> to get a really good moonshot on 35mm you would need
> a 1200-1500mm lens!
At 1600mm (400 with two 2X t/cs) the moon fills about two thirds of the
frame, vertically.
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
