UniPol
03-08-2008, 11:45 AM
It was a great evening for viewing last night in the Lower Blue Bountains so I decided to play around with my new Tak Sky Patrol II mini mount. I used a 400D with an Olympus OM 28mm/f2.8 lens and most of the shots were taken at 800 ISO varying from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. I think they're not bad images considering the mount and tripod were plonked on the ground with a rough alt/az/level polar alignment. The tiny mount will hold an FS-60c, Solarmax40 and a PST easily so it will be a great travel mount. The last image shows the Centaurus/Lupus region setting in the SE sky around 11 p.m. The second last image showing Jupiter was taken in front of my house, part of the roof gutter and a tree can be seen which ads a certain amount of perspective. Needless to say that these low resolution images aren't as good as the originals.