17 January 2012

First Jupiter Images!

I was looking forward to a great night for stargazing but I was cut short by dew. I managed to capture two images of Jupiter, not great, but I stacked in Registax to see what would turn out. After processing in GIMP, I was pretty happy with it. Taken with a Point-and-Shoot through the eyepiece (didn't get the chance to use my DSLR) at 98x magnification. I used a 25mm with 2x Barlow. I can't wait to capture more data on a better night!

05 January 2012

First Lunar Images with the new 'scope!

Here are my first Lunar images with my new 6 inch Dob. Taken with a Sony A300 DSLR, just pointed at the eyepiece. I ordered an adapter so I can connect it to my 'scope, but for now I'm just practicing this way. First image is flipped and rotated right side up, second isn't. Processed in GIMP 2.6.

48x mag.


120x mag.






Thanks for looking!