[amoeba]

A shiny new GStar-Ex arrived for me yesterday, and the sky also stayed clear for the evening! I dragged a 54cm TV out the back, setup the scope, gave it a rough alignment then phoned some family over. The last few weekends i have been showing them around the sky, they are very interested but lacked basic observing skill and generally did not want to hang around in the cold waiting for dark adaption. I had been hoping the GStar-Ex would help me show them some of the deeper space objects we love to gaze at.

Well, the GStar-Ex preformed wonderfully! Being able to bring objects up on screen kept them outside for hours. (which was no small feat given how cold it has been last few days). My Father took a couple shots of the T.V screen with his camera, i have attached the images for people to see what the live view can achieve, keep in mind the T.V sync shows lines in the images which are not apparent when viewing live.

I’m looking forward to trying my hand at some more serious imaging with the cam.