Last weekend - my grand tour

[Chrissyo (Chris)]

I had a fantastic time last weekend with my telescope. I decided to have an imaging party, and try to get as much as I possibly could over Saturday night and Sunday morning. Took me ages to finish processing, and I'm only posting it now cause I've had a long week of assignments and homework.

All images were taken with my 10" Dobsonian with no tracking. As always, I used my home made camera bracket with video camera to capture with 32mm eyepiece and 2X barlow.

I started on Saturday night with Mars, which was kinda low at the time, and I had to use about 30X zoom on the camera. Hence its quite pixelated =P Then I moved onto Rigel and the Orion nebula (I know neither are within the solar system, but they were just quickies ). Then Saturn, and I forgot to get its moons on camera. I went to bed and got up at around 4:45am to get Venus, Jupiter, Jupiters moons and our moon.

I hope the image isn't too bad quality. I had to decrease the quality a bit in photoshop to get it to fit in the attchment.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Aw..Wow guy they are damn brilliant. To get that sort of colour detail with mars atm is fantastic. They are all great images. I think you need to book in some time with bird when he heads to Rocky in May and try his big toys out.

Great stuff Chris.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

You got those with a dob?! Struth!

[Jonathan]

That's a great effort for one nights work Chris, and all that with no tracking.
I think you did really well to get so much detail out of Mars. I also like the moon shot.

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent work! I think the Mars images are great! You've been very busy!

[Robert_T]

Absolutely amazing, what a great run of images, especially with Mars and the Saturn shots too are brilliant. You must have hit the pillow feeling mighty pleased with yourself after this effort