showcase of unprocessed screen grabs

[great_bear]

There's nothing like a bit dew on the HT cable to wake you up after a long night's observing...

[steelfixer]

Hi all.

My contribution to your collection of screen shots.

Last night's moon.

thanks

Graham

[PunkJay]

Ok it's not a screen grab, however I think it's still quite interesting:

- Jason

[garethmob]

thats fine jason even better as its a video it shows the "changing" of the sun

[great_bear]

These shots don't use a telescope - just the zoom lens I bought to go with the SCB-4000 for wide-angled viewing. The first picture was before I realised you need to turn off dynamic noise reduction, because it tries to delete stars.

These shots are from a VERY light polluted sky. You could see only a few stars with the naked eye. As you can see, the camera reveals many more.

Shot 1: Cassiopea (upper left) with Andromeda Galaxy (middle of right-hand half of picture). Note that the tree appears illuminated - due to infra-red - rather than being sillouetted against the sky.

Shot 2: Part of Cepheus - guess the lines! - get the corner orientation from the notable triple-star asterism in the top-left of the image, near to a Cepheus corner-star. If you know Cepheus, you'll know what I mean

Similar view of the above area in Cartes du Ciel (for reference):