Saturn & Mars in the Beehive

[Dennis]

I had to drag my WO 80mm 'scope and Vixen GPDX equatorial mount into the study, poke it out of the window then rough polar align it using a protractor and compass, just to grab this image. The threesome were setting into the light polluted dome of Brisbane so I grabbed 10 x 30 sec images with my Pentax *istDS camera and 80mm f7 WO refractor.

Pentax *istDS, 10 exp of 30 secs, 200ASA, 3008x2000 jpg’s.
WO 80mm f7 ED triplet Apo
16 June 2006 6:30pm AEST
Aligned and Combined in ImagesPlus with final image re-sampled down to 654x1024.

I have included a screen image from Starry Night Pro for comparison - pity it looks better than the real thing!

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

i like it very much dennis!

[h0ughy (David)]

well done, its raining here!

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

hey thats nothing to sneaze at, I was asleep and forgot all about it

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice one D! Looks great.

[Robert_T]

now there's something you don't see everyday

send it in to the Mag's Dennis, that's a pretty rare collection of objects worth showing around