may moon madness!

[ving (David)]

and some others
all taken afocally
scope: 8" dob
camera: sony dsc p31 2mp camera.
small amounts of processing in PSP

enjoy
click for larger pic!
umm.. the moon

http://photobucket.com/albums/v46/vi...ob/th_moon.jpg

that striped one...

http://photobucket.com/albums/v46/vi...h_jupiter2.jpg

a star! (alpha cent)

http://photobucket.com/albums/v46/vi..._alphacent.jpg

another one... (alpha crux)

http://photobucket.com/albums/v46/vi..._alphacrux.jpg

aldebaran.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v46/vi...alderbaran.jpg

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Good onya David. That's a great afocal jupiter. An I would never have thought of trying to catch multiple stars. Top stuff.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

You almost got the split on Acrux , well done

[iceman (Mike)]

Great job Ving, the moon is a tad overexposed, but I don't know if your camera allows you to change the shutter speed.

The star shots seem to show a problem with your optics - notice how they're trailing off to one side (the upper right) a bit? It could be your collimation and/or pinched optics.

Have you checked both of these lately?

[ving (David)]

hi mike, yeah my colimation was off a tad. I just didnt bother fixing it... my bad
that moon shat was take with a moon filter on, iso set to 100 and aperture set to er... small. I dont have shutter speed control as its a really basic camera

hi geoff, my colimation was out and the seeing wasnt exactly great. I might give it a shot again soon tho. if i increase the contrast in the pic it splits

thanks for the coments peeps.

[cahullian]

WTG ving good job mate. What ep were you using?

Gazz

[ving (David)]

a gso 25mm for the moon shot and gso 9.5mm with gso 2x barlow for the others

[fringe_dweller]

Nice one Ving
The distorted star images may be caused by the optics in the digicam itself and/or combination of EP/digicam inbuilt lens - i have seen similar images of bright stars with my afocal setup CP 4500/WO 24mm EP/celestron 2X barlow thru superb optics newts - when visually it doesnt look that way at all.
Cheers
Fringey

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Cool David,

The one of Joop is great for Afocal.