Tonight I'll be 39 Miles from Mars

[MAKG]

VERY nice for a handheld camera. Even got the earthlight.

I take it images of totality were blurred due to long exposures.

 

[Will]

I think they would have been alright but I was getting pretty tired by then. I played with all of the functions on the camera and ended up on the setting with a mountain icon. I don't know what that means but the one I thought would be best--the dude running icon, was the worst.

It was like being back on the pistol range--breathing control and squeeze the button so you don't screw up the shot. I deleted dozens of pictures of the moon racing around with trails behind it and multiple moons.

It was fun and the kids always seem to remember doing things better if you snap some pictures.

 

[Jspafford]

I think they would have been alright but I was getting pretty tired by then. I played with all of the functions on the camera and ended up on the setting with a mountain icon. I don't know what that means but the one I thought would be best--the dude running icon, was the worst.

It was like being back on the pistol range--breathing control and squeeze the button so you don't screw up the shot. I deleted dozens of pictures of the moon racing around with trails behind it and multiple moons.

It was fun and the kids always seem to remember doing things better if you snap some pictures.

The mountain icon is for 'distant' shots, the guy running is for 'action' shots.

 

[MAKG]

And it's hard to get more distant than any astronomical object.

Real telescopes focus on "infinity."

If you want to get fancy (and if your camera supports it), depth of focus is utterly unimportant due to the extreme distances. So, you crank the aperture wide open and let the shutter speed be determined automatically (for the moon), or set it to manual shutter and time it with a stopwatch. Make sure the flash is off (or any nearby observers will wrap your gonads around your neck).