Lookout for the moon moving through Pleades Friday morning

[h0ughy]

yes at 12.20am friday morning the moon will pass thought the pleades. Good photo opportunity here guys!

[davidpretorius]

moon = bright, how do you get the background stars to show as well?

i set the toucam at 1/1000, not many stars i could get with that!!!

please help!!

[h0ughy]

i might try a variable polariser, see what happens! a bit of unknown territory for me. my last attempt wasn't all that good

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=2727&highlight=pleades

[davidpretorius]

in August's AS&T there is a shot of the moon and jupiter, but no detail how he did it. Also my 40mm will be almost too much magnification to fit everything according to Starry night???

[ballaratdragons]

Do what the helpful crowd in here suggested I do with one of my Joop attempts of getting the Jovian Moons to show up.

Take a shot of the whole lot for Moon capture. Then take a longer one for Pleiades to show up. Then mask out the Moon in the Longer exposure and stack them!

[davidpretorius]

seems a bit like cheating, but still I thought that may have been the case.

i am worried that the moon will be very bright and will drown out everything else during a longer exposure.

[h0ughy]

cheating is good if it actually ends up being like what you saw visually!

[davidpretorius]

actually, you are spot on there. pheww, my conscience is clear!!

i will try doing pleades tonight with the 40mm without trackig and see what i can get

and then get set for friday.

thanks houghy

[mick pinner]

cloud and rain in Melbourne, hope you interstaters have better luck.

[acropolite]

For visual I can't imagine too much problem with 40mm, the moon just fills my 26mm EP and the FL of the LX is 2000mm =76x mag, whereas yours is 1250mm and you have a 40mm EP = 31x mag, but of course you have to allow for the (apparent) magnification of the Toucam if you're imaging. I seem to remember you posted that it was equivalent to a 6mm EP that would make the mag 208x. Maybe you could try afocal instead of prime focus...

[davidpretorius]

thanks phil, i now have an afocal setup to use with any of my 1.25" eyepieces, so i will give it a go tonight for the moon and also fingers crossed for pleades tomorrow.

also i would love to try to us my toucam thru your scope next friday in modded mode for longer exposures. hope fully you can make it and the weather is favourable.

i would love to try lagoon or anything high in the sky that night. i am really wanting to try thr toucam with a scope that tracks to get a good feel for what it can do.

[davidpretorius]

cloud = damn!!!! 11:32pm and i can't see it clearing wthin the hour!!!!

[asimov]

Tell me bout it!!

[h0ughy]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?p=49473#post49473