Venus, Jupiter and a perspective of Uranus

von Tom (Tom) · #1 19-10-2012, 09:54 PM

Hi everyone.

The other night (15th October) I thought I'd give Uranus a go with the 12" SkyWatcher Goto Dobsonian, 5x Powermate, and Canon EOS 600D. Using HD video crop mode in OK seeing got a nice result. I also took 8x5second photos at ISO6400 and stacked those to capture a couple of moons. I also created a space-based view of Uranus using 3D transform in Photoshop and the original Uranus image.

Also attached is a comparison image of Venus and Jupiter from the 16th October with Uranus shown at their relative angular sizes.

Thanks for looking,

Tom

Larryp (Laurie) · #2 19-10-2012, 10:15 PM

Nice images, Tom

EagleEyes (Andy) · #3 19-10-2012, 11:06 PM

Beautiful images Tom.

Shiraz (Ray) · #4 23-10-2012, 10:05 AM

very nice presentation Tom. regards Ray

Poita (Peter) · #5 23-10-2012, 10:52 AM

Thanks for the images, they are great.

Also thanks for the thread title, it had my class giggling for ages, but it got their interest!

lepton3 (Ivan) · #6 23-10-2012, 11:49 AM

Great work Tom, nice to see the comparative sizes. I tend to lose track of this as I'm using different barlows and scaling for the different targets.

-Ivan