Alpha Centauri in the daytime

tornado33 · #1 15-09-2007, 04:31 PM

Heres a pic of Alpha centauri in daytime taken at 4:07 pm
Stack of 4 ISO 100 images. Pointing by Argo Navis, was bright enough to see in the camera viewfinder.
Also saw Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Antares and Spica earlier in the day
I used Spica to do some drift alingnment to tweak the polar alingment

Scott

leon · #2 15-09-2007, 05:15 PM

Hey Scott that is unreal, I never sort of think of the stars much in the daytime, well done.

Leon

sheeny (Al) · #3 15-09-2007, 06:01 PM

Nice.

Al.

h0ughy (David) · #4 15-09-2007, 06:11 PM

fantastic Scott, but man look at that scintillation!!! that jet stream must be going crazy

Bassnut (Fred) · #5 15-09-2007, 06:16 PM

Well there you go, ive also found bright stars allow daytime polar alignment and PEC training, very usefull.

acropolite (Phil) · #6 15-09-2007, 06:19 PM

I saw Jupiter at dawn (just before sunrise) once, after leaving my LX out. The image was rock steady and the detail the best I have seen.

tornado33 · #7 15-09-2007, 07:15 PM

Thanks all
Yeas the seeing isnt much to write home about, hopefully the seeing will settle down after the footy tonight, in which case I will try catching some more photons for the camera

Scott