jjjnettie
20-03-2007, 09:36 PM
I spent Saturday evening at Chris Thomas' property near Benarkin.
Wes, who usually frequents AstroRons came along as well.
Conditions were exceptionally good, we judged it to be 8/10 seeing.:D
I wish I'd bought along the battery to the camcorder to take advantage of it. But it was left at home along with the SLR.:doh:
I finally got to put my Astrofest $5 special 4mm ep through it's paces. It was pretty good on it's own, but barlowed to make 625x was great. And believe it or not ( I have witnesses to this), the views at 1250x weren't too bad either.
It put Chris's $130 5mm to shame, it really did.
Like I said, I wish I could have used the old Panasonic camcorder to get something better.
This image is from an AVI taken with the Canon Powershot. 94 frames total, Registax 3 was used for stacking.
Wes, who usually frequents AstroRons came along as well.
Conditions were exceptionally good, we judged it to be 8/10 seeing.:D
I wish I'd bought along the battery to the camcorder to take advantage of it. But it was left at home along with the SLR.:doh:
I finally got to put my Astrofest $5 special 4mm ep through it's paces. It was pretty good on it's own, but barlowed to make 625x was great. And believe it or not ( I have witnesses to this), the views at 1250x weren't too bad either.
It put Chris's $130 5mm to shame, it really did.
Like I said, I wish I could have used the old Panasonic camcorder to get something better.
This image is from an AVI taken with the Canon Powershot. 94 frames total, Registax 3 was used for stacking.