new to AP

[hemihaggis]

hi folks im new to AP , and have tried to take a few photos of the moon and jupiter , im using a meade sn10 ldx 75 , and a nikon d3000 . last night i took some pics of jupiter ,dslr attatched to scope , but the images are very small , how do i make the images proper size to fill a picture , do i just crop them and zoom in with my pc ?

[steppenwolf]

Unfortunately, a DSLR is not the ideal tool for capturing the planets as you really need to take loads (hundreds!) of short frames using a high frame-rate camera and stack them but, it can be done. There are two possible options rather than cropping from a prime focus image:-

1. use a Barlow lens or similar 'amplifier'

2. use the projection method to project an image from your eyepiece into the camera to gain magnification.

Cropping in on your existing images is likely to disappoint.

[steelfixer]

Never mind small images Hemi what about that other small matter you mentioned last night. Boy or girl ??????

graham