first photos through the DOB....

[AlexN]

Found saturn tonight in the scope, then i thought why not give the mobile phone (Nokia N95 5mp) camera a try...

going to try with the D50 now... :D yay.

[skwinty]

Amazing pic for a cell phone camera.
well done.
Try some more objects!:thumbsup:

[madtuna]

that's it! I'm selling my 40D and upgrading to a Nokia :)

[AlexN]

This one was with the Nikon D50 DSLR, ISO200, 1/50 shutter, 18mm @ f/3.5, cropped and adjusted slightly in photoshop...

Im going to have to buy a T-adapter and ring, lining it up by holding a 52mm frontal lense on the camera to a 10mm eyepiece by hand while the object is moving out of the scope QUICK is hard... but it worked i guess....

It appeared much clearer through the scope, could even see 3 moons... (possibly a 4th, or a low magnitude star.)

[madtuna]

that's it! I'm selling my new Nokia and upgrading to a Nikon :)

[AlexN]

I'm pretty happy with myself today... After having bought my first scope on friday afternoon, Today i posted my first shots...

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=30448

I accidentally posted them in the observational astronomy forum....

Through the scope i was able to see 3 or 4 moons, however due to the fact that i was simply holding the cameras up to the eyepiece, the cameras were unable to capture them.. I tried to get photos of the jewel box, eta carine, SMC and LMC but all were too dim for this method of photography...

All in all I had a good night viewing... After all the rain in my area today the seeing was pretty clear (once the clouds buggered off...)

Cheers.
Alex.

[skwinty]

Shoot! and you just modded the nokia with a hutech 1a filter.Man what a business;)

[iceman]

Great start!

[iceman]

Moved and merged the two threads.

[AlexN]

Got a few of joop this morning at around 3:30am.. however with the mobile phone it showed up as a flat red disc with 3 moons... no detail at all...