[Mickoid (Michael)]

Despite having to get up early for work the next day, the sky just looked too tempting to waste before retiring to bed. I grabbed the SW Esprit 100 out of the box and set it up to shoot seven 60 second video grabs of Jupiter using the eyepiece projection method with the Canon 550d. The result was I made a 7 frame animation of Jupiter rotating. Seeing started off good but it deteriorated to average so I gave up and changed the camera over to prime focus for some deep sky. The only object visible from where I'd positioned the mount for Jupiter was Centaurus A. I shot 30 x 60 second subs at 800 iso for this one as this was about all the light polluted skies could manage without sky glow taking over. I love the versatility of this Esprit 100 and the optics aren't half bad either!