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This video demonstrates how to capture lunar photographs using the Celestron Origin telescope, focusing on the necessary steps and settings for effective moon imaging, particularly during the first quarter phase.
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Hello everybody welcome back to another
video here on my Channel about the
Celestron origin tonight we've got just
passed a first quarter of moon on our
hands and that is going to present us
with an opportunity to try out the
Celestron origin on the moon now of
course we know that the Celestron origin
is capable of capturing photos of the
Moon of course with its large aperture
and decent resolution camera on the
front but I have never done this before
I know many new origin users may not
have ever explored photographing the
moon yet with theirs so why don't we go
through this together and learn how to
take a photo of the Moon just some
things really quickly that I read in the
manual though for doing lunar
photography is if your exposure is under
1 second long which obviously the moon
at f2 we're going to really have to
bring down that brightness our exposure
is definitely going to be under the 1
second threshold we need to use Snapshot
mode what the manual from Celestron
suggests basically this is where we are
going to take the iPad we're going to
convert it into snapshot mode I do
believe we have to initialize the
telescope first once it gets a little
bit darker so that the tracking accuracy
is relevant to us because if I just
power it on right now and send it over
to the moon it's not going to track it
for us which is going to present even
bigger headaches trying to keep the moon
centered and do all of the camera
controls all at the same time on on the
iPad will probably be a little bit
cumbersome so we have to wait till it
gets dark to do the initialization but
I'm really curious how good the origins
lunar shots Look Tonight on the
Terminator that is the line between the
dark and the bright part of the Moon we
have sunrise on the crater cernus which
is one of my favorites to look at so I'm
going to grab my iPad we got to wait for
it to get dark and I'll see you in just
a moment [Music]
all right it's finally dark enough I've
got the origin finished with its
initialization procedure for the night
and we are ready to start off with going
to the moon and we need to activate the
snapshot mode and I'll show you how to
do that here I'm going to do a screen
recording of the iPad so you can see it
right here so we can follow along
together now one of the things to note
about this is that the origin does not
have a moon specific mode like something
like the sea star and some of the other
smart telescopes do where it can
successfully go to the moon and
recalibrate the camera real fast and say
okay I know exactly I'm on the center of
the Moon the origin has an issue with
being able to dim that camera down
without the use of snapshot mode which
we'll get into here in just a second so
we can do successful go-to the origin
will put the Moon somewhere in the
camera field of view or at least it
should and then we should be able to
activate snapshot mode and get all of
the other settings and parameters in
place for us to take a decent Moon shot
so we're going to go on the star map
here right now we're on NF which is a
start up in Pegasus and we're going to
select the moon and we're going to hit
slew origin's going to move its way down
to the moon or where we think the Moon
is we can see on our little live view
here in the corner as we approach the
Moon it should get really bright like it
is now the origin is giving us the error
that the origin cannot find Enough stars
that's simply because like I said it
doesn't have a lunar dedicated mode to
be able to decipher the Moon versus the
plate solving technology that it's
trying to do every time it locates a
Target so we'll just hit okay and the
Moon is in there if we pull up the live
view you can see the moon is there with the
the
ridiculously Overexposed Moon and what
we're going to have to do is hit the
little up arrow and we're going to have
to click on
Snapshot and enable snapshot
mode and there we go now the Moon looks
uh pretty normal let's go back here and
adjust some of these parameters here so the
the
exposure looks like one millisecond is
what uh is applicable for the moon if we
increase this you can see the Moon
gradually increases in brightness this
would be useful if you wanted to use the
origin for something like a lunar
eclipse uh you'd be able to use the
origin in that way and kind of expose it
a little longer to reveal maybe more of
the red colors during a total linear
Eclipse but for now uh 1 millisecond is
what we're going to go with the iso I
assume is the lowest which it is at 100
which is good and the focus should be uh
the same Focus that it focused for your
stars earlier in the initialization
process so no issues there and on the
left and right here we see the icons for
the telescope control so you can Center
up the moon in the field of view here um
it does seem to be tracking the moon
which is good news that once you're done
with the initialization it will at least
track the moon for you so that's at
least a thumbs up for me um I would like
to see a dedicated lunar mode though so
when it goes over to the Moon it darkens
that camera ISO and is able to kind of
sort of plate solve sort of that the
Moon is in the center but I'm sure
there's all kinds of stuff in the works
for software so let's Center up the moon
here unfortunately I think that this is
at full speed no matter what so we're
going to have to make very small
adjustments to the way we uh Center up
the moon here and uh what we can do is
we're going to hit capture
image and that's going to take a single
shot of the moon for
us and we can see there there's the the
live view that's good I'm going to save
it but pretty much that is how we
capture photos of the Moon with the
origin for right now there is no ability
to do video mode to so we could take it
later and stack it uh because the origin
allows you to save files and everything
but we can't do that yet in terms of the
lunar stuff so uh maybe that is
something that we can all suggest to
Celestron and see if they can put into
this software but uh as for right now
here is the result of our Imaging with
the origin on the lunar surface I hope
you enjoyed this video I'll see you next
time as I have a lot more origin stuff
coming up clear skies as always [Music]
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