First shot Uranus!

[Nuno]

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I planned to get some views of Uranus and I took about 30 min to locate him using stelarium as guide and tracking it with a 200p dob manually. 

When I got it in sight I could see its very very faint blue color and was outstading . 

This is one of the frames that I got from recording it through a powershot canon afocaly. 

I dont know how to use registax yet, but the video that I recorded didn't get much cuz it was hard as hell to track that planet down

For this shot I think I used only a 10mm EP altough I tried all the combinations with a 25mm EP and a 2x barlow

Either way it was a very good night

Clear skies everyone

[Andy_E]

Tough planet to image Uranus... you've captured the colour nicely.

[jambouk]

Nice!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Well done, manually tracking the dob can't have been easy. 

[robbie c]

Yes well done as said it cant have been easy but you got a cracking image there 

[glowingturnip]

nice.  personally I've failed to find uranus and neptune every time, even with synscan, redshift.  I have a pixel that *might* be neptune, but probably isn't

[jambouk]

My GOTO finds it easily (cheating i know) and at first glance in my mak (f/15) it could easily be mistaken for a star, but if you look at it for longer you can tell it's not a point of light but something bigger, and its got an odd greeny-blue colour if you look to the side of it. I'd be lost without GOTO.

James

[ArmyAirForce]

It's a great first capture. My first go was with a DSLR, and I got a white dot with defraction spikes, though I did catch a couple of moons. This is my best capture so far, with an SPC 900 and x3 barlow. I think it's amazing considering what the three minute video started out as.

[jambouk]

Armyairforce, they are great. I'm not even going to post my first shot of uranus, or the subsequent ones as they are awful! I've decided itms not a planet for me to image at present.

[ArmyAirForce]

This was my first go! Keep trying, it's a tough one, but very satisfying to get something that does resemble a planet! I've only had my scope about 20 months, so it's surprising how fast things start to come together.

[Astrosurf]

Excellent shot Nuno! Especially as you had to track by hand.

Alexxx