While experimenting at night with light painting, I also took some photographs of the moon using a telescope with a camera mount. I wanted to create a time lapse image of the moon at different phases to show the movement of the natural satellite around the earth, but this would have taken a long time, and I had this idea quite late into the year. Another issue with this idea is that the days were growing longer, so there was less time at which the moon was showing and I would be able to photograph it.
It was incredibly hard to get a decent shot, as any tiny movement would blur the image, because of the magnification lens and long exposure. Another difficulty was that due to the movement of the moon, I had to constantly realign the telescope so that it had the moon in shot. This was very time consuming, and took time away from being able to focus on getting good shots.
I used three different magnification levels, but the closer I got, the more blurred and difficult to keep in focus the shots got. If I were to continue with my lunar phases idea, I would stay on the lowest level of magnification in order to get the clearest shots.
While a lot of the shots looked as if they were in focus, and look in focus when in thumbnail mode, they are actually very blurred. This shows the necessity for a remote shutter control and perhaps another support to keep the lens even more stable.
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