My first pics of the moon

[june (June)]

Hi guys, hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, my first shots of the moon

I did try Jupiter but still learning and havent got any decent shots of Jupiter yet, so just waiting on a cheap webcam I ordered to come so I can hook it up.

Anyway, here are 3 pics I would have loved to have posted them all but I guess I'll save them for facebookHope you guys like these as I did my back last night getting the telescope out, I pulled something. I will surely invest in a trolley of some sort so I can cart it in and out without injury.

I've have to stay indoors tonight and I'm admiring whats in the sky through skyglobe its just not the same.

Anyway, hopefully I get this right, so the pic's were taken using the Afocal method, if that is the correct term.

I used a canon ixus 14.7MP, pointed it into a 25mm EP with a moon filter on an 8' GSO Dob last night about 22.30 I think, may have been later, can't remember as I was in so much pain, trying to keep the camera steady and breathing through the back pain. I changed the settings on the camera to macro and set the ISO high and used the 10sec self timer. I put them on PSD to crop and frame

Oh and Mental if you pass by, I've not yet purchased my 30mm superview EP, waiting on a client to pay up for the year so I can get some more goodies for 2010, I hope that your mod's are coming along superbly....cheers everyone

Have a happy and safe New Years everybody and lots of fantastic seeing nights for 2010 forgot to mention these were taken on the 28/12/2009

[taminga16 (Greg)]

Hi June,
Great first pics. PM me re; EP's.
Greg.

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Hi June.
Sorry to hear you hurt yourself. A trolley is a great idea. I put one together for my 12", made life so much simpler when it was time to move the scope. Heres a link to some pics of my trolley

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=47433

or here's a link to one that Mike did

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-12-0-0-1-0.html

Oh and well done with the Moon pics!

Hope you feel better soon

Malcolm

[june (June)]

Originally Posted by barx1963

Hi June.
Sorry to hear you hurt yourself. A trolley is a great idea. I put one together for my 12", made life so much simpler when it was time to move the scope. Heres a link to some pics of my trolley

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=47433

or here's a link to one that Mike did

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-12-0-0-1-0.html

Oh and well done with the Moon pics!

Hope you feel better soon

Malcolm

Hi Malcolm,

Thank you so much for that, I'll be heading off to buy one of these tomorrow, had I been smart about it, I should have taken the tube off the mount first. instead of carrying the whole thing out...too eager

Well, I wont be doing that again and I will certainly invest in a trolley....cheers and have a Happy and safe New Year.

[june (June)]

Hi Greg,

thank you for that and you've got mail RE: EP's

[DavidU (Dave)]

Nice shot's ! A little work on focus and having the camera square to the Eye piece and things will improve. Keep it up.

[june (June)]

Originally Posted by DavidU

Nice shot's ! A little work on focus and having the camera square to the Eye piece and things will improve. Keep it up.

Thank you for the feedback Dave, fantastic and I will keep at it, I had such a ball out there, I'm going to invest in a trolley so I don't miss any more nights to get out there and explore.

You have a fantastic, happy and safe New Year...cheers

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Hi June,
Beaut first images!!
May I suggest....
Drop your ISO right down, iso100, 200 at the most. Set the exposure for around 180th of a sec. Play around with exposure times, depending on the phase it will be shorter or longer.
If you have Paint Shop, use the "Clarify" tool to increase your contrast.