As part of a school project on astronomy a local student joined NSAAC and learned the fundamentals of astrophotography, and trained his scope on the moon. We think he will get an A.
The Moon is a great target for astrophotography. You can take decent shots without needing to have a tracking mount (as is required for long-exposures of the stars for example). If you do have a tracking mount though, you can use it to track the Moon as it moves across the sky and use a webcam to take multiple images of regions of the moon. Software such as RegiStax can be used to stack good-quality frames so that a top-quality image is the result. It’s not difficult to do and is very satisfying.
The Moon is a great target for astrophotography. You can take decent shots without needing to have a tracking mount (as is required for long-exposures of the stars for example). If you do have a tracking mount though, you can use it to track the Moon as it moves across the sky and use a webcam to take multiple images of regions of the moon. Software such as RegiStax can be used to stack good-quality frames so that a top-quality image is the result. It’s not difficult to do and is very satisfying.