My name is Cameron aged 9 and I took my 1st DSO

[Catanonia]

I had a little help from my dad, but i picked this one and pressed the buttons.

It is called CJ's star, but my dad says it used to be called M3

[Mikea]

Hi Cameron you're off to a good start! I haven't even seen M3, I mean CJ's star, let alone imaged it . What are you going to look at next?

[adamsp123]

Nice one nipper much better than my first attempt so well done! cool

Pete

[minimalist]

Congrats and well done!! You're well on your way to getting images like your dad.

Daniel

[GazOC]

Nice one Cameron!!! M3 (CJs star) is one of my favorite objects,

[michigander]

Very nice, cameron!

When I was 9 I couldn't change the film in a Kodak Brownie....

Dana

[Milliways]

Fantastic image cameron you are off to a great start! can't wait to see what you come up with next!

Keep it up little man and soon some awsome images (just like your dads) will be coming our way:headbang:

[Psychobilly]

Well done CJ... you'll be giving tips to the OM in no time - Nice on Cat for getting the young 'un involved

Peter...

[barkis]

Well done CJ aged 9. That is a very fine globular cluster you captured there. CJ's Star is a much better name for it too.

If you are going to be an astronomer, then you should join SGL yourself, and have your own special name.

Ron.

[Catanonia]

Well done CJ... you'll be giving tips to the OM in no time - Nice on Cat for getting the young 'un involved

Peter...

Cheers Peter and everyone else. CJ loves the comments.

Packed him to bed early for some sleep and then woke him at around 10pm after I had aligned and focused. Target for tonight was IC5146, but in the meantime I had a job to do. Educate the lad

So we started to look at the stars as they came out and talked about them. Obviously Arcturus was the main topic of conversation, whichj lead to Sterllarium to find it's name, then moving the scope to see it.

We then moved onto taking single images of Arcturus and then stacking them.

Stellarium showed M3 close by, so a move there and put it all into practice with 10 x 10second subs (all at 10:30 so still fairly light )

Afterwards we looked up IC 5146 on google images and went on the hunt for it with Mr Goto and took a few 2 mins subs to confirm we had it. Then the serious imaging began as CJ and I stood in the garden watching all the stars come out for another hour.

Nice to have some quality time with the lad

[Keithp]

Heh heh, nice one Cat.

Well done Cameron on your first of what I'm sure will be many.

Regards

Keithp

[jgs001]

Move over Cat, that's a new lad in town ... Well done Cameron

[Tim]

Nice to see the young ones getting involved. Well done Cameron.

TJ

[minimalist]

Awesome Cat, love when someone gets the young'uns involved in this. I wish my daughters got involved in this hobby as well, but all was ruined when they discovered boys. :oops:

Keep up the great work.

Daniel

[Catanonia]

but all was ruined when they discovered boys. :oops:

Daniel

Well do hope that doesn't happen with CJ

[minimalist]

Lol Cat, I hope so too!

Daniel