Couple of views from last Night Aug 07th 05

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Pic 1

pic 2

Ok before i give my report i thought we could have some fun  :blob:

Can you Name the Constellations in Pic 1 or 2?

Referance books Allowed.

Have fun.

James

[alxxx]

Is it Perseus ?

AL

[russ]

I go with Perseus and Andromeda!!

Can definitely see M31 there in both pics, so that gives away Andromeda. And that looks like the double cluster in pic two as well, so that's Perseus.

Russ

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Well Done guys :bounce: :salute: your both correct......

On the night was setup for a pratice run for the Perseus shower's on the 12th, i sat the coolpix camera on top of the 40mm ep and finderscope(made a good camera mount for the coolpix this did) and shot 1.15 sec exposures quite happy with the results no trailing from the etx125's goto in Alt Azi mode, took 1min to setup.

I did observe a few meteors but managed to miss them on dilm/digital, i will be trying all week to get a good meteor shot.

[Ant]

I've been truing for years to get a good meteor shot and failed so far!

Good luck for the 11th - 12th.

These were 1.15 second shots - do you mean 115 seconds?

Ant

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They were 115 secs matey

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This is from last night i used the cameras zoom for this shot, the tracking wasnt up too much though i think mysetup was messed up last night, but i am quite surprised how well it's going with just the coolpix camera, get a Canon 300d and i would be laffing:)

[Ant]

Thats Field Rotation James. Due to working in Alt AZ mode. Notice that the trails are pointing in a different direction depending on where in the pic your looking.

Ant

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Ah yes i see it Matey, never thought of that i will try polar mode tonight see if i can get that going with the scope:)

James