No clouds this morning!

[dtrayers]

I received my Scoptronix adapter and 40mm lens last week but since then it's been cloudy every night. This morning as I listened to the news on the radio at 5am, I heard the announcer remark that there was a nice crescent moon out.

Woohoo! Let's try out the scope!

Here is the fruit of about 10 minutes of effort:

http://home.attbi.com/~dtrayers/photos/Moon3-26.jpg

f/8.0 at 1/8 sec, -2 stops underexposed. Manual focus at infinity.

I'm using an Orion StarMax102 with a clock drive on the mount. It's a 102mm Maksutov type scope. A 40mm eyepiece is about 32x with the eye. Would full zoom (4x) on the camera make it 124x? I have no idea...

The image had a little High Pass sharpening done, but no levels or brighness adjustments.

I think I need to work on focusing. I may try to make a Hartmann mask to help with focusing.

[saqib]

nice :)

i have been meaning to get into astrophotography, but am kinda holding off to see if i move up to dSLRs or stick with the g3.

good luck with the rest of your photos.

[xxlt]

dtrayers~~Hello! *Marvelous* Picture......thank you for posting your work. I am anxious to see more.

bill from Ohio

[jboyd]

Wonderful Picture! I hope to try this some day also!

[Cheryl3700]

WOW!!

[astro]

Great shot Dave,

I'm looking forward to using my scopetronix adapter soon hopefully this weekend.The last two clear nights here I was busy....oh well story of my life.I'll have to thumb through my sky+telescope mag to see what to expect.I'd love to see if I can get some shots of the horsehead nebula.....It'll be hard to do but worth a try for sure.

Astro:eyes

[IchiNiSean]

That is awesome!