Saturn / Moon from Melbourne

rustigsmed (Russell) · #1 05-08-2014, 08:54 AM

Hi all,

After the occultation earlier in the year for experimentation, I had planned to timelapse this event but my ac-dc converter blew up about an hour before kick off... great timing. I raced back home to grab a battery pack but it wasn't charged (I always run off mains). Anyway that meant me and the dob had to switch to manual control and no more timelapse. The event was clearish on ingress and cloudy on egress. Still very nice to watch and better conditions than earlier in the year.

12" 'goto' SW dob, canon 600d, cs6. and one iPhone thrown in for good measure.

I hope everyone got to witness it.

Cheers,

Russell

ps higher res on flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/80336656@N07/

Forgey (Paula) · #2 05-08-2014, 06:35 PM

Exact same setup as me Russell! Nice work.

rustigsmed (Russell) · #3 06-08-2014, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Forgey

Exact same setup as me Russell! Nice work.

Thanks Paula - yep noticed we had the same setup! almost identical outcomes too.

On another note, my brother in law posted the iPhone photo I took to the imgur website (I admit I hadn't heard of it before) and it made today's front page of 'most viral photo's on the internet today. in about 16 hours its hit over 750,000 views.

http://imgur.com/gallery/n1oPVkr

hopefully more people will look upward as a result