My 'Solar System Family Portrait' Project, Part 1

[virtualpilot45]

Hi, I thought I might as well put up my first pics of the planets that I've taken so far. I got my Skywatcher Explorer 150P from Opticstar, Sale in December, and after a fortnight of getting a mount head replacement (http://stargazerslounge.com/equipment-help/123111-latitude-bolts-not-working.html) I managed to get up and running, with my first target being Jupiter. I immediately realised it was begging to be imaged so I got out my little trusty point and shoot camera and started snapping. After my frankly rubbish first pic was mentioned in PoW I got loads of helpful advice on things like AVIs and Registax.

Within a couple of days I had seen my first three planets, several DSOs, and not even looked at the moon!

Since January of this year, my planetary and cluster imaging 'set up' has consisted soley of my Casio EXZ850 compact camera, its tripod and my telescope, imaging afocally. I must say it has worked much better than I ever expected. Anyway, I soon decided it would be nice to make my own representation of our orbital relations, with the sizes accurate, so I went on GIMP and accurately scaled my images accordingly, using a template off Google Images. I haven't yet seen Mars, Uranus or Neptune, but I hope to add the latter two by the end of August or mid-September! After that massive ramble, here is the image:

Thanks for reading (and viewing!)

[virtualpilot45]

Part 2, added Earth, Moon and scaled down the distances. Please note the distances and sizes are not to the same scale!

[virtualpilot45]

Anyone know if my camera could get Neptune? I don't think Registax could do it though, too faint, maybe DSS. I've seen some photos with Triton in the frame!

[Space Cowboy]

Very goof effort for a point and shoot!

[virtualpilot45]

Very goof effort for a point and shoot!

which I use while daydreaming about dedicated planetary cameras Unfortunately they're just completely out of my budget