Fri 14th Oct

[OXO]

A quick post before BED!

Mars and friends.

Single frame 2 mins exp

James

[OXO]

2.30 mins single frame.

James

[Jamie]

Damn fine images there mate.

What camera / lenses are you using for these images?

[daz]

Nice one James,

At least someone is getting some skies!!

[CELESCOPE]

sweet James lovely wide field , lovely view of m45 as well , excellent stuff.

Rog

[OXO]

Thanks Chap's,

Jamie, i used my coolpix 4500 for these image's no lenes just the built in one.

James

[FLO]

Thanks for sharing the pix James.

I'd like to know more about your setup, in particular the mount ... please.

Thanks,

Steve

[OXO]

Hi Steve,

Sorry about lack of details i am a little brain dead at the moment (yes big dipper i know lol) from last nights observing from 9.00pm till 6.00am.

Ill post some in a short while matey.

James

[daz]

YOU HAD 13 HOURS OF CLEAR SKIES?????????????

:) :)

[OXO]

Ok Steve,

The setup was done amazingly quick i have an HEQ5 with the Piggyback bracket on , so i placed the Coolpix 4500 on to that and shot up-to 2Min's exp with the drives running. The mount was roughly pointed north no polar aligning at all or at least in effort anyway. Using the remote cord for the exp's.

Images had a very orange look due to the Light Pollution and Mist but that was easy to process out using the levels in Photoshop.

Camera settings for the first shot were zoom 4x optical,ISO 100(for less noise),F/5 i think,4.1 megapixel mode,auto whitebalance.

James

[FLO]

Thanks James,

Though I am quite happy observing eye-to-eyepiece, I have been thinking of using a digital SLR on a motorised mount to photograph constellations.  Hence my interest. 

Steve

[OXO]

Hi Steve,

My next move is a DSLR prob the Canon 300D as you maybe able to pick em up quite cheap well cheap for an Dslr hehe Christmas is my goal to have one by.

I would reccomend doing this type of Astrophotography it's esp good if you have two mounts because you can observe whilst taking your Snap's.

Thanks

James