Point and shoot astro photos

While we're having a burst of themed posts, here's another.
Pictures to have been taken using a camera with integrated lens (point and shoot) either directly or through a telescope eyepiece (afocal). Webcams (and the pro-astro versions) don't qualify.

A couple from my S3IS

M42 (6x30sec ISO400)

Wow Steve, very impressive. Jupiter and Saturn are really excellent. I started out with a 2mp HP point and shoot, it didn't even have a zoom.

I'll have to dig deep to find my P&S shots but I'll see what I can come up with.

Very nice Steve . Your Jupiter and Saturn images look great and qualifies to go into the thread i just started which said you could use any Canon camera which included PS (Pointand Shoot) as long as a scope was used whether EP (Eye-Piece Projection) or Afocal (AF) or Prime-Focus (PF) . I was hoping we would not have a double thread started .

This is not a great shot but it was important to rekindling my interest in lunar photography. In the 90's I shot the moon on Tech Pan and developed it in our guest bathroom at night. But my wife complained that the house smelled like vinegar ("No honey, that's stop bath"). So I got out of developing my own in about '98. Fast forward to 2005 when I have one of my early P&S cameras. So one night I decided to point it into the eyepiece and I got about four decent shots, and a bunch of crappy ones.

Well, that rebooted the hobby. This picture has cost me thousands of dollars since.

It's not a great image and I resisted editing it further today just for nostagia sake. I can do better now! The vignetting gave me some funky colors and my processing was pretty primitive then. But this shot holds a place in my heart.

Canon PowerShot S500, f/3.5, 1/25 sec through the eyepiece of a Celestron C8.

I think I remember that this camera did not have a manual mode and I had to point it at the porch light, hit exposure hold, then run to the scope and get my shot!

Anyway, another great idea for a thread and a chance for me to go down memory lane.

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I hear you Ron and didn't just start the thread on a whim.
The emphasis is on the point and shoot camera and IMHO is of the same intent as Sorarses original proposal. ie. Something that "normal folk" can relate to and perhaps give astrophotography a go.
I think that the Orion nebula is the more significant image as it's a DSO taken with a consumer p/s. I might try and find the original data and see if i can extract a bit more out of it.

Rick - You sent me a brief nostalgia trip too. I recently found some hypered Tech Pan that I bought 20 years ago. It's been in the freezer all that time and transferred from house to house. That was about 2 weeks after I sold my A1. The M42 image above is also significant to me as one 30 sec frame looked very similar to a 20 minute image I took on slide film.
Maybe there's another themed thread coming - Film.

Steve.

SteveInNZ wrote in post #11224669
Maybe there's another themed thread coming - Film.

Steve.

Will it have to be with a Canon camera ? I have a Pentax K1000 and an OM1 but no Canon film camera .

Celestron wrote in post #11224869
Will it have to be with a Canon camera ? I have a Pentax K1000 and an OM1 but no Canon film camera .

If you post pictures taken with anything but a Canon, we'll whip you with a virtual wet noodle and think rude thoughts about what your cameras can do with themselves!!!

Celestron wrote in post #11224869
Will it have to be with a Canon camera ? I have a Pentax K1000 and an OM1 but no Canon film camera .

I don't have anything scanned to get the ball rolling so if you start the thread, you get to set the rules. I can't imagine that it's going to be a huge thread.

SteveInNZ wrote in post #11226529
I don't have anything scanned to get the ball rolling so if you start the thread, you get to set the rules. I can't imagine that it's going to be a huge thread.

I'll wait for now , since this is a Canon Digital Forum other ppl may get upset so maybe you need to ask around and see what ppls' thoughts are about it before hand .

If I could add my two cents worth, looking back over my old films, they pretty much suck compared to what I can do now with a >10 MP 14 bit digital camera.

It might be different for you deep space photographers, and I bet I'm about the only one in this forum that would have film of the Moon through a scope. They are nostalgic but far inferior in image quality to what many of us can do now routinely in our Canon SLR's.

I really like these themed threads. Maybe we don't always have to post our latest, but film may be a little too far back.

Just my opinion.

The first 7 images below were taken with a Nikon(gasp) Coolpix 4300 (4mpxl) point and shoot attached to various eyepieces using a Digi-T adapter system through my 10" Meade LX200. I do miss slewing slowly over the Moon's surface at high magnification with that scope, as close as I'll probably ever get to the view from a NASA orbit. Nothing like a trip down memory lane.

Agree, IMO each of these themed threads needs to be a sticky.

Nice to see individual threads where people post their images and discussion goes on the techniques used/etc, these themed threads as a summary capture the heart and soul of this forum in neat way also.

Steve, I so like the "Phases of Luna" you've done, ok if I copy that concept with my images and my own PP'ing?