Monday, February 27, 2012

M42 with Point n shoot


The Orion Nebula afocal with the 7MP sony cybershot. 8 exposures @ 30 seconds, 20mm EP, 10" SCT, flats. Stacked in DSS, stretched in Fitswork, final layer mask and tweaking in Gimp. Click for larger image.
 The little fuzzy spot toward the bottom of the previous picture is this.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Orion Constellation just digital camera

Put the point n shoot 7MP sony cybershot camera on the telescope for tracking and took 16 30 second exposures with the 3x optical zoom at ISO 400. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker,edited in Fitswork and Gimp. No flats or darks, just jpegs! The star colors were originally really blue, guess that's camera CA?. This is my 1st widefield attempt and with a DSLR should be stupendously better, but still, I was proud of my little 7mp Sony.
 The fuzzy spot towards the bottom is M42, the Orion Nebula.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

1st attempt at Mars

10mm Ep with barlow lens screwed in. Sony cybershot digital camera. 400 frames each. Bad seeing, thin clouds passing in front of the planet while shooting.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Moon Venus and Jupiter 2/24/12

Set the digital camera on the wife's car in the driveway. 8 second exposure

Friday, February 3, 2012

Webcam Lunar Mosaic 2.2.12

Using the $20 donated webcam I attempted the 1st mosaic, just wandered around the moon taking pics, will go for a total mosaic later.