Saturn through 25mm eyepiece

[orestis]

I took this photo at the start of july through a handheld digital camera onto a plosll 25mm eyepiece .its actually 2 frames stacked in registax ,Unfortunately i don't really know how to use registax.I also took a video of jupiter and stacked in registax but its just a big yellow blur with a hint of orange but very bright and unfortunately Jupiter was close to the horizon when capturing the video.Wish i had some good imaging equipment but prices are big for me as i am only a secondary school student.boy some of those images you guys take are spectacular well i guess practice makes perfect.

Thanks for viewing,advice would be great.

[alphajuno (Dave)]

Those are good. Are you using full optical zoom on your camera? Also, I found a 15mm with a long eye relief which gave me a bigger image so see if you can find another eyepiece that magnifies more. I ended up with some pretty decent detail but my camera optical zoom was 18x. Good luck!

[alphajuno (Dave)]

Here's a picture of Mars I took afocally on 11-11-07. The angular diameter was about 13.3 arcseconds for reference. You can see some smudging and lightening where the polar ice cap was. I shrunk this to 1/4 the original size because it was too big. This was a single shot.

I also stacked using the video function of the camera but I've archived all of those I think... Just to give you an idea of what you can do - Jupiter will be over 3.5 times bigger this opposition so you should be able to get something pretty good...

[Quark (Trevor)]

Congrats on achieving your image of Saturn.

I read your post and looked at your images and thought, "Big things from Little things grow".
Who knows, this could be the spurr that launches you into this fascinating field.

Keep this image to look back on. Everyone has to start some where and it is great to see young people getting involved.

Regards
Trevor

[orestis]

Originally Posted by alphajuno

Those are good. Are you using full optical zoom on your camera? Also, I found a 15mm with a long eye relief which gave me a bigger image so see if you can find another eyepiece that magnifies more. I ended up with some pretty decent detail but my camera optical zoom was 18x. Good luck!

no i was not using any optical zoom ,just using the magnification that eyepiece produced.My camera only has 3x optical zoom anyway.
Good to see that you got some fine detail.
regards orestis.

[orestis]

Originally Posted by Quark

Congrats on achieving your image of Saturn.

I read your post and looked at your images and thought, "Big things from Little things grow".
Who knows, this could be the spurr that launches you into this fascinating field.

Keep this image to look back on. Everyone has to start some where and it is great to see young people getting involved.

Regards
Trevor

Yes will definately keep this one to look back on as i start getting better images(i hope).

regards orestis.

[renormalised (Carl)]

What equipment do you have??

Good attempts at afocal piccies there. As Trevor said, it'll only get bigger and better from here

If you want to get a reasonably good camera to use on your scope try this one....

http://www.myastroshop.com.au/produc...asp?id=MAS-134

It's a Celestron NexImage camera. It will take pretty good piccies of the Moon and the planets, and it's not too dear. You may have to save up, but if you do so for a few weeks, you'll have yourself a good piece of equipment

[orestis]

Originally Posted by alphajuno

Here's a picture of Mars I took afocally on 11-11-07. The angular diameter was about 13.3 arcseconds for reference. You can see some smudging and lightening where the polar ice cap was. I shrunk this to 1/4 the original size because it was too big. This was a single shot.

I also stacked using the video function of the camera but I've archived all of those I think... Just to give you an idea of what you can do - Jupiter will be over 3.5 times bigger this opposition so you should be able to get something pretty good...

Cant wait to see Jupiter that big.That photo of mars is good Can distinctly see one big darkish patch and a little whitening towards the pole.

Thanks, orestis.

[orestis]

Originally Posted by renormalised

What equipment do you have??

Good attempts at afocal piccies there. As Trevor said, it'll only get bigger and better from here

If you want to get a reasonably good camera to use on your scope try this one....

http://www.myastroshop.com.au/produc...asp?id=MAS-134

It's a Celestron NexImage camera. It will take pretty good piccies of the Moon and the planets, and it's not too dear. You may have to save up, but if you do so for a few weeks, you'll have yourself a good piece of equipment

Seems like a good camera for planetary imaging .Might consider it actually.
Thanks ,orestis