Astro - Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Mars

[Wazza]

Nothing that special.. I think you need a 1,000,000mm lens

Sorry about the large pic below.. It's a 50% crop of the original. I posted it back in June, and went looking for it, hoping I had shot it RAW. Unfortunately not. I re-edited it, but it's not as good as I would hoped.

[img]http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/mars.jpg[/img]
Haha, what a joke... Probably looks better with the naked eye

[img]http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/venus.jpg[/img]
The sun has set about 2 hours before, and Venus is heading West.. you can see it's own crescent.

[img]http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/trail.jpg[/img]
First time trying a longish exposure at the Southern point.
Next time I have a cable release, I will try a better one, with something in foreground, like a tree, and have it open 2 hours and not 15min.

[img]http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/moon_jupiter.jpg[/img]
Jupiter after passing behind the Moon.. It's really hard to appreciate the size of our solar system, and even more so, the entire Universe.

[Desertraptor]

I like the star trail shot. You have the celestial south pole over your head I can only get half circles from here.

[Jon Foster]

That last shot is killer. Wow!

Jon.

[Becca]

That moon shot with Jupiter is really incredible! Nice capture!

[Wazza]

Thanks all. Once I get my camera back, I'll try some more shots over summer, using a new equatorial mount made for the scope.

[Tom W]

Originally Posted by Wazza

Thanks all. Once I get my camera back, I'll try some more shots over summer, using a new equatorial mount made for the scope.

I was about to say that summer's a long ways off, but I forgot that things are different down under.

I like that #4. A rarity to find Jupiter peeking out from behind the moon like that! I'm looking forward to seeing what you get with the equatorial mount.

[Wazza]

Thanks. The scope is probably almost 10 years old. Not sure exactly.

The tracking bits are slighty stepped, or creating movements in stars on long exposures.. Hopefully the equatorial will get better results.

[Dimitri_V]

No 4 is awesome wassa.

[webejamn]

why dont you try to shoot in the winter, you should get better shots,
my uncle is an astrominer(hobby) he minored in it in college, but he never even brings out his telescope in the summer because the heat waves distort the pictures, he said dont even bother till the heat gets below 40deg F, i think i am unsure what the exact temp is but its close to that i think
oh yes the shots are exelant, the last shot is best

[Wazza]

Thanks

The last shot was in mid June.. New Zealand's winter. One of the coldest nights of the year. Temp would have been around 8-10*C

Auckland doesn't go any colder than that, apart from a couple of frosty mornings