hia peeps

[waynesmith]

right can you peeps have a look at these images that ive taken with my ccd wecam and stacked its my first ever go at this so please be gentle lol ! And let me know what you think ive done right and wrong thanks photobucket.com/astro-images

[waynesmith]

Pictures by waynesmith120 - Photobucket

[paul schofield]

Hi there, I dont know if its my pc, but there is no attatchment.

[paul schofield]

Oh there it is.

[Jiggy 67]

Nice first attempts, I havn't even got the bottle to try astro-photography cos it baffles me so much!! keep at it and you will only improve

[waynesmith]

Its from my sky watcher 127 sync scan and its my first telescope. Ive only had it 2 weeks and thats the first ever go with my phillips webcam.

[paul schofield]

Dont know much about the A.P side of things but looks good to me, great first attempts.

[waynesmith]

what i noticed was the webcam was at quite high magnification but i don't know why it was set at the lowest magnification in the settings and connected straight into the scope no 2x barlow or diagonal any ideas how to lower the magnification ? the such high mag caused the blurring probs on the moon images

[waynesmith]

The software i was using was ccd tools

[eid]

Your scope has a focal length of 1500mm. Magnification is a product of focal length.

For instance, a 10mm eyepiece in your scope would produce 150x magnification (1500/10). Whereas in mine (1250mm focal length) it would be 125x.

In order to get less magnification you would need a focal reducer.

Or perhaps do eyepiece projection photography? I'm not sure how that works out tbh.

eid

[waynesmith]

Think il try the diagonal tonight if the seeing is good and x2 barlow and put the webcam into the barlow see if that improves things

[eid]

That will magnify it even more.

Try holding the webcam up to a low power eyepiece (in the scope) and see what size image you get.

If that works, you could get/make a cheap adapter for it.

eid.

[todd8137]

hi from me ,nice first go focus looks a issue but that will come with time and webcams can produce some stunning images so its onwards and upwards great first go and welcome to the dark side (take in astro pics may take over your astro life for a while)

[waynesmith]

Thanks for the comments peeps great help I just can't understand why the magnifiacation is so high tho because I've seen images taken with the same Ccd camera and scope and there getting much less mag I will get to the bottom of this watch this space lol !

[JimStan]

One quick suggestion. Can you change your signature to some color rather than dark blue? I can hardly see that.

OK, the important question, are you using eyepiece projection, or are you taking photos directly from the scope's optics? If you are using eyepiece projection, the combination of the focal length of the scope, eyepiece, AND camera's optics will all combine together to give you one very looooong focal length.

If you are able to take the lens off the camera, and couple it directly to the optical tube, with NO lenses, barlow, camera or otherwise, between the objective of the scope and the sensor in the camera, your field of view will be much wider, and the magnification will be lower.

That is essentially the "bottom line" .

Jim S.

[waynesmith]

Im taking it directly from the scopes optics jim and im using a phillips ccd webcam to record the footage so cant understand why such high magnification i must doing something wrong.

[starman1969]

Very good first attempts. I have only just started webcam astro this week, myself.

However, I managed to get this snapshot of Jupiter just by holding a compact camera up to the telescope eypiece.

Jupiter 1 DEC 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!