Vixen Atlux lunar shots with iPhone

[Stu]

Had a good few hours this morning with the Vixen. Fed the baby at two, finished just before three and then went out until after five. The scope was already covered in ice when I went out but the optics stayed fairly clear, with gentle use of a dew strip. Note to self, yet again, wearing crocs in freezing conditions leads to numb toes ;-)

These are a few cropped shots of the moon, which cleared the rooftop just before I came in. They were taken with an iPhone up to the eyepiece, which was a 6mm BGO.

It was great just to wander along the terminator taking in all the detail. Much crisper detail visually, but these give an idea of the views. They have just been cropped and converted to tonal.

For anyone getting worried, I think this will be as sophisticated as I get with AP, although I may stick the 1000D on the Vixen at some point.

Cheers,

Stu

[nightfisher]

very good stu, you will be getting a ccd and filter wheel soon 

go for it with the 1000d it will work well

[Stu]

Thanks Jules. It's a definite no to the CCD, but I'm sure I will have a go with the DSLR. No processing though, I don't do processing ;-)

Stu

[Luke]

Nice shots, Stu Today an iPhone, tomorrow a full frame Atik and EQ8   Being serious, would love to see what you get with the DSLR and Vixen. Did the Vixen come with a dual speed focuser?

[Laurie61]

Congrat's on the new frack  I spotted the vixen before Christmas and wondered  if a forum member would bag it. Your shots look nice for single images, the seeing last night did not look great here to me so I stopped in the warm    Nice capture of rupes recta on the third shot.   

[Stu]

Nice shots, Stu Today an iPhone, tomorrow a full frame Atik and EQ8 Being serious, would love to see what you get with the DSLR and Vixen. Did the Vixen come with a dual speed focuser?

I'm pleased to say the cupboard is bare in terms of budget so I am done for a good while. I'm really enjoying my new, decluttered kit. It's all working very nicely with the exception of the dob mount :-( grrrrrr

Will definitely give the DSLR a go. I just find myself very resistant to anything involving a pc but single DSLR shots should be well worth it.

The scope 'just' has an AP traveller focuser on it. It's a very smooth R&P, single speed, non rotatable but it works very well and is very solid.

Stu

[Stu]

Congrat's on the new frack I spotted the vixen before Christmas and wondered if a forum member would bag it. Your shots look nice for single images, the seeing last night did not look great here to me so I stopped in the warm Nice capture of rupes recta on the third shot.

Thanks Laurie.

I had a long term plan to get something like an APM 152 ED but when this came up I couldn't resist :-)

I'm really impressed with both the scope and the mount. The Atlux mount is really quick to set up, and for visual use I don't bother polar aligning accurately, just point north with the right altitude set and a three star align works beautifully. It keeps objects fairly central even at high power.

Seeing wasn't great last night but still some lovely views. I split Pi Aquilae which is a first for me, very clear despite the conditions.

Stu

[Stu]

Just found an iOS tiling app called Stitch Pano and gave it a whirl. I only had pairs of images with enough overlap to work but it seems good. Maybe with DSLR images I could try some mosaics.....

Amazing what these smartphones are capable of.

....and cropped to neaten them a little...

Stu

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[Alien 13]

Nice work the DSLR will do well and i am a big fan of the single shot route to lunar imaging i find mine are better than the video stacked versions.

Alan

[sologuitarist61]

They ame out well Stu!