I took a few shots between cloud banks tonight with this lovely little lens / scope: The Bausch & Lomb 800 mm f/ 10 Lightweight Mirror Lens. Specs. MTF Charts. User Reviews. at prime focus of 800mm. 1/160th, ISO 400. PP in Lightroom.

Not sure I quiiiite nailed the focus, but out of a bunch of shots with lots of fine tuning, this is what I got.

Here's a single-frame shot using a K-3II through my old Meade MTS-SN6 6-inch f/5 Schmidt-Newtonian. Unfortunately, the moon was just above the roof of the neighbor's house, so air turbulence removed some of the sharpness I would have seen otherwise. Perhaps if I stack multiple frames with proper registration of lunar features, I might get a better result. 1/160th of a second at ISO 100. Perhaps I should not have shot at ISO 100 and perhaps I should have used a somewhat longer exposure.

Lew,

Your shot is fantastically clear, however.

I really need to shoot the moon when it isn't full. I'll probably do so tonight if the weather gets nice like it is suppose to before playing with my new 12mm toy and figuring it out. Now to decide between 560mm or 2000mm, or maybe both because I can.

I mean, why not? Use both, shoot a bunch. Have fun

That would be the plan but 2000mm and F/20 is a tough one

Ooof - seems like it. Scope or lens?

Lens. The MTO 1000mm f/10 but it is in M39 mount so even though it focuses past infinity it doesn't focus far enough past to stick any of my extension tubes in the mix and maintain infinity focus while clearing the overhang on the K-3. I do have an old 2x M42 converter that I stick in the mix. It can actually produce some results that don't completely suck. Now that I have the A 1.4X-L converter I wonder if I stuff that in the mix instead to be at f/14 and 1400mm without a bad old converter because that would suck a lot less if it will all mount together.

I have some old M42 converters if you have any interest in them.

Also, do you know anything about the mirror lenses? There's a Soligor that I'd swear is a Rubinar or something else from Russia / Czech heritage - The Soligor 500 mm f/ 8 Mirror Lens. Specs. MTF Charts. User Reviews.

Not really. That MTO 1000/10 isn't mine but is living at my house until a buddy wants it back. He got in trouble for buying things and his wife didn't want to see all of it. So he sold off a bunch of things, kept a few, and sent that off to me to baby sit.