ANRI, the photo was taken simply through the telescope's eyepiece (at 35x magnification). I held a Canon 350D with a focal length of about 30mm and snapped the shot. Astrophotography enthusiasts call this setup an eyepiece camera, although in my case, no camera fixation devices were used. Naturally, the image would be better if I used the telescope lens itself as a camera lens (the focal length would be about 700mm with my telescope). I've already thought about how to do that, but the problem is, I don't have the Moon yet.
Joker, could you tell me if there's a way to reduce aberrations using software? With this homemade method of photographing through a bunch of lenses, they're bound to appear. And I didn't want to completely remove the color...
Yes, and with this kind of shooting there's also a problem with focus - point-and-shoot cameras focus perfectly, but the 350D completely refuses to focus - you have to do it manually...
Viktor Malyshchits, removing the blue color is pretty easy: select the outline in Photoshop and adjust the Selective Color. It's also worth darkening the blue to reduce the blurriness of the outline. For example, like this: http://rapidshare.com/files/159891623/88453_main2.jpg.html I didn't have much success with sharpening the outline, though—Unsharp Mask leaves jagged edges. Maybe someone can suggest a better method.
Joker, could you tell me if there's a way to reduce aberrations using software? With this homemade method of photographing through a bunch of lenses, they're bound to appear. And I didn't want to completely remove the color...
ANRI, Tarnalitsky Maksim, boo-boo, Feshchenko Alexander, Nikolay Nikitin, Maxim Veize - thanks!
I didn't have much success with sharpening the outline, though—Unsharp Mask leaves jagged edges. Maybe someone can suggest a better method.