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 Mar 4 2009, 11:46 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
Gorgeous clear night in Kendal tonight, the Moon looked spectacular in my 4.5" scope. Took some pix, didn't turn out too bad...
Saturn looked really nice too, with at least 3 of the "other" moons visible. 
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Mar 5 2009, 12:24 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4503 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Sloughhouse, CA Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE Members' observations, Things we see through our humble 'scopes... Stu, I assume you mean when the telescope is pointed at the sky. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 5 2009, 01:37 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6481 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
 ...okay, Dan, that made my wife draw the shades...Nice pic, Stu. Was that an eyepiece shot, or did you mount a cam at the objective? (Sigh.) I gotta drag my Celestron 8 out to the Mojave when I have time...the light pollution in LA just plain sucks. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 5 2009, 06:32 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
That was a good ol' fashioned hold-the-camera-up-to-the-eyepiece-and-breathe-in-to-try-to-keep-it-still-while-taking-the-pic shot
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Mar 5 2009, 04:01 PM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 96 Joined: 20-September 06 From: Hanoi, Vietnam Member No.: 1164 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 5 2009, 01:32 PM)  That was a good ol' fashioned hold-the-camera-up-to-the-eyepiece-and-breathe-in-to-try-to-keep-it-still-while-taking-the-pic shot In my case, I found it easier to hold the camcorder up to the eyepiece, record a movie to be captured to the PC later then use a frame grabber to extract the best images. The camcorder's zoom could also be used for some extra magnification
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Mar 5 2009, 09:00 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
More shots from tonight...
http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/more-moonshots Especially pleased with the second one
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Mar 5 2009, 10:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4503 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Sloughhouse, CA Member No.: 197 |
I've also found that a good digital SLR one a tripod with a 200mm or 300mm lens can take some amazing images. Be sure and set it for the highest resolution so that if necessary you can crop in closer and still have a decent image. You just need to watch for lens flare on a long lens with something as bright as the full moon.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 5 2009, 11:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 341 Joined: 4-January 07 Member No.: 1555 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 5 2009, 02:00 PM) ...Especially pleased with the second one Yes, if you look at that one closely, it even shows the shadow of a famous lunar fault (Rupes Recta or "Straight Wall") to the right of the terminator in the center. Nice work capturing that handheld. --- HDP Don |
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Mar 6 2009, 02:37 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3115 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
And it's dawn at Fra Mauro, Bonpland and Parry...
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Mar 6 2009, 06:18 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 709 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 4 2009, 07:37 PM) (Sigh.) I gotta drag my Celestron 8 out to the Mojave when I have time...the light pollution in LA just plain sucks. The Moon and the planets cut through light pollution fairly well. I run a quarterly "star party" in my neighborhood, and people are constantly amazed by what they can see on the moon. It's a quite pretty object! -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Mar 6 2009, 08:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6481 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yeah, I can always pick up Venus & Jupiter, and Mars at opposition, anyhow. Saturn is usually a challenge to find from here, though, esp. because the constellations are pretty much invisible in the damned ugly ubiquitous orange sodium skyglow.
I gotta get a job in Tucson. There's a town that knows how to minimize light pollution! (Enlightened self-interest due to the proximity of Kitt Peak, of course...) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 7 2009, 08:04 AM
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Well I have to admit I've bought my first refractor to view Mars back in 1976... Nowadays I've upgraded to an 18cm refractor and Jupiter is my favorite target
 Although a large Dobson is the instrument to watch DeepSky objects, I plan to go for a Refractor "Kometensucher" of 20.3 cm ... |
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Mar 7 2009, 08:36 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 3-January 08 From: Virgo Supercluster Member No.: 3995 |
The most amazing thing I've ever seen in the sky was with no telescope at all. It was the southern portion of Gould's Belt from New Zealand a few years back. I had heard about the various wonders of the southern sky, but the immense number of bright stars stretching from Orion to Scorpius was the most striking. The Milky Way itself was mere ornamentation.
As for a telescope, nothing beat the head of Hale-Bopp through the local astronomy club's 30-inch. A close second was the globular cluster M22 through a similar-sized scope. As for my own humble telescopes, I had the good fortune of seeing Mars through a 5-inch Newtonian on a particularly steady night during the 2003 opposition. The planet displayed the dramatic butterfly-like shape of Syrtis Major and Meridiani in nice detail. -------------------- Astrogeologists have stars in their eyes and rocks in their heads!
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
 Mar 16 2009, 06:47 PM
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For those who're interested, check out how Saturn's rings will show up the coming months...
http://www.curtrenz.com/astronomical.html |
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Mar 16 2009, 10:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2933 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
That is interesting. From here we get to see the unlit side of the rings for a month or so (not that I will be able to observe it). I had been wondering if that would happen.
BTW just been out with my tiny telescope to check if Titan is still there: it is.
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