10-4-06 What's it like at your place tonight.

[Striker (Tony)]

Andrew your a natural...all those years saying your solely the observer....come on.

Great shot.

Time to sell one of the kids and purchase some astrophotography gear.

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by astro_south

Great shot Dennis
Here is my shot of Gassendi the night before last when it was on the terminator. It is a stack of 1 shot - same camera as the Jove shot

Hi Andrew

Here is my version of Gassendi, the same night as yours of 9th April. The avi was captured around 9:35pm, so we must have been chasing the same photons!

No wonder mine is a little underexposed, you must have sucked up all the spare photons with your excellent wide field shot.

Cheers

Dennis

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Striker

Andrew your a natural...all those years saying your solely the observer....come on.
Great shot.
Time to sell one of the kids and purchase some astrophotography gear.

..mmmm just got another kid....do you get more if they are trained or untrained?

Seriously though, I think I am too lazy to bother with astrophotography - I just run inside and grab the digi when the conditions are OK, stand there and rattle off a few for fun - most of them fail, but I get the occasional steady shot.

Nice detail in your Gassendi shot Dennis

Paul, my trips to the darkside are brief, I will be back to the side of good when the moon hides away

In the face of all that is pure and good I have attached some more handheld shots of Plato I took last night showing a few craterlets. (Plato was just disappearing out the frame when I clicked one of them ) Visually I could easily pick out 6 craterlets consistently

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

"Visually"? what sort of camera is that?

Damn fine detail for hand held shots Andrew.

[ving (David)]

yes indeed, those shots are some of the better hendheld shot i've seen andrew
just what is you camera?

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Ving - camera is a Canon A40 2Mp

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

So Andrew, your night vision came back eventually after looking at the moon with that 31mm Nagler

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Sure did Ian - did yours?

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Eventually Andrew !