Afocal image of 8-day old Moon taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5200 Digital camera and a 20mm eyepiece on a Meade LX200 16-inch telescope. No image processing
Close-up of Moon taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5200 and 10mm eyepiece using the Meade 16-inch at Huddesfield Observatory
Single frame image of the Moon taken with a Toucam 840K through the 16-inch LX200
Stitched image of 3 seperate images taken with a webcam video [stacked using Registax] in the focal plane of the LX200. Stitching done using AutoStitch
Thumbnail image of a Moon Mosaiic - click on thumnail for full-sized image
An image of the Full Moon [taken as a mosaiic of 21 images].
This has been photo-adjusted using Paint Shop Pro 13
Almost any modern camera can take a shot of the Moon with relatively little effort.
There are two main techniques:
a) Afocal image projection - this is where the camera lens is held up against the telescope eyepiece lens and, once the alignment is OK a simple shot will show the whole or a significant part of the Lunar surface
b) Focal plane image projection - any camera that can use 'interchangable lens' such as SLR cameras - all you need is a suitable 'nosepiece' which replaces the camera lens and this allows the camera to be attached directly into the focal plane of the Telescope.
When using an SLR camera this tends to increase the magnification so only a small part of the Moon can be imaged at any one time.
This is where 'mosaiic-ing' is useful - by taking many (20+) images of various sectors of the lunar surface and ensuring that the images overlap on at least two sides, it is possible to use any suitable 'stitching' software (for example AutoStitch) to glue the individual images together.