PHOTOS PLEASE

[Don Carlos]

Wow - impressive indeed

[andyman]

YEAH!!!!!

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OK andyman, a story you must tell here.

Surely that's not a hand held lens, even a tripod I would think difficult taking on our Jupiter

You venturing into astronomy, telescopes at the least?

I was taking pictures of the moon last night and could see the very bright object right above it and figured it was a planet, but it was getting late so I started to pack up but then changed my mind and tried to get a few pictures of it. Took FOREVER to get lined up, then i screwed up the focus, and was never sure if I got it as focused as possible because of the moving haze and impossible erratic movement whenever you touch the rig, so I had to just guess. This is a layered picture, and is as good as it is going to get with my gear.
A tracking mount would yield much better planetary pictures, but those are expensive and I would want a new telescope as well, so that's like $2000. I still want the stuff though, love taking these pictures.

[GONNAFISTYA]

[Doombrain]

Do you use Star Walk on iPhone/Pad?

[andyman]

I've got SkyView on the ipod but only use it to see where the moon is, or will be, when i don't want to get up and look. still handy though. it should be super clear tonight, and the moon and jupiter will be in the same position so I'll give it another go but with a bit more effort this time.

[andyman]

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did the moon first and got the best focus i could, then moved to jupiter so it would be in focus. the best images came out with a lower iso, low enough to barely see it, and then give a small boost of exposure in Ps.
This is with the 25mm eyepiece, i tried with the 9mm and finding it was hopeless. For comparison, i have a hard time finding the moon with the 9mm piece!

[Doombrain]

You should be able to pick the eye up at that detail

[seremtan]

nice shot shame the spot is facing away from earth during the night

[Tsakali]

interesting, so it has the same 24 hour rotation as us? if not, surely there will be nights where it could show up at night... or maybe a diff. season.

[seremtan]

i think the spot was identified centuries ago, so its orbit isn't synchronised with ours in any way

[Whiskey 7]

Thought it rotated

Jupiter rotation movie, taken by Voyager 1 in 1979, over a period of approximately 15 hours. This equates to one and a half Jovian days.

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of some interest

andyman: You were using a telescope weren't you?

[obsidian]

Yes, he's using a telescope of some sort and a DSLR camera. It's been mentioned previously and if you look back many pictures he had a photo of it strapped to a stool to take pictures of the moon (though I think he has since upgraded the stool).

[Whiskey 7]

Yes, he's using a telescope of some sort and a DSLR camera. It's been mentioned previously and if you look back many pictures he had a photo of it strapped to a stool to take pictures of the moon (though I think he has since upgraded the stool).

Yes I do remember that but I didn't believe that would take this picture... It is such a small spot in a big sky.
Again andyman, love the effort

I recall as a youth, my first telescope and seeing the rings of Saturn and these belts on Jupiter.
It has to be about 45 years ago

Here is the "stool strap device" you mention obsidian, just for the followers here ... about out page 173........
That sounds evil or sexual

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[andyman]

current setup... added 5 more pounds (the plates) to help counterbalance since it was a mess before that. set up at ~27.9 degrees elevation for tampa, and i point the eq mount in the direction of my best guess for polaris since i can't see it from the balcony. it is a shitty mount though... everything makes it vibrate even a little... trucks going by, peoples shitty dubstep shit fuck music blaring through their cheapass stock car stereos, sometimes the pulse in my thumb if i hold the camera remote too tightly. really need a wireless remote. I want to make a remote controlled focuser too but i'm not really sure how that will be done. focusing by touching and turning the knob is super difficult because of all the shake.
really, i just want to win some raffle and get a $10k setups for free lol

[Tsakali]

lol poor people

[Captain]

lol poor people

[Whiskey 7]

andyman, two thoughts?

Get out of town (literally) and pick a quiet (vibration) spot. I remember on the Haley's Comet visit I made the effort to drive out of the light at least.

I understated the focus issue but exposure, what time span are we talking in the Moon & Jupiter shots? Is it possible to use the self timer for long exposures.

Here is a night sky (probably my first effort) and I am a complete amateur here.

Love them stars

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f/5
exposure time 30 seconds
ISO 6400

[tnf]

This image was my second ever attempt at shooting the Milky Way - out in the middle of nowhere, at least 3.5 hours from the nearest city lights right along the Canadian border.

Happened to catch a small shooting star from the tail end of the Perseides shower when I took this.
I'm a complete amateur with this type of shooting - all I knew to try was shooting wide open (with this lens that was F4 - I was using the Canon 17-40 F4L lens), going with 20-30 seconds of exposure
- any longer and star movement becomes a significant issue - but I think shooting at around 17mm helps reduce the perceived impact of this, and to crank up the ISO - this was ISO 6400.

To illuminate the small church, I held a speedlite in my hand and manually set it off while pointing it at the building during the long exposure.

Nothing compared to the true masters of this type of work but for a second effort I was happy enough.

[Tsakali]

nice!

[tnf]

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did the moon first and got the best focus i could, then moved to jupiter so it would be in focus. the best images came out with a lower iso, low enough to barely see it, and then give a small boost of exposure in Ps.
This is with the 25mm eyepiece, i tried with the 9mm and finding it was hopeless. For comparison, i have a hard time finding the moon with the 9mm piece!

That is awesome.

With a 400mm on my 1.3x crop 1D Mark IV (520mm) I can get jupiter to look like a tiny round ball and if you crop in enough you can just barely seen a line or two across it - but we're talking maybe a pixel or two wide line - its ridiculously small.

When are you going to try shooting a galaxy? Does your scope do motorized tracking where you could set your camera to BULB, focus on Andromeda, and let it go for a long time?

[tnf]

Here's a shot from a wedding this summer. Weddings pay well, but I've learned quickly why some photographers hate them - they can be really creatively stifling.

[Whiskey 7]

........ to catch a small shooting star from the tail end of the Perseides shower ....

Just noticed a trail (probably a satellite) in the bottom left of mine I hasn't noticed before..

and illuminating the small church (hand held a speedlite).. I did the same but waived a hang held torch (flashlight) about... Looking for that picture..

Here it is and still the amateur.

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Yes: some cloud in mine :/

[andyman]

The mount is completely manual, no money for motorized right now. I'd love to go to a dark area but they are farrrr away. I live in a white zone but a friend of mine lives in a yellow area and it's much noticeably darker there. One of these days I'll get up there for a night so long as it isn't cloudy. Next week is a 3 day weekend, maybe then and the moon should be out of the picture too. Have to see what happens... maybe just use the telescope for viewing

http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/

When we used to go camping in the rocky mountains I could see absolutely everything with no scopes at all... galaxies, satellites, everything. Some day I'll go back there... no time soon though. A trip like that I'd have to bring a slew of equipment that I don't even have just to make it worthwhile

For example, this is what the sky looks like where i live... it's like muddy water
https://vimeo.com/23428369

[seremtan]

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god i miss this view. haven't seen a night sky like this since new zealand

southern england = light pollution central

[Captain]

Here's a shot from a wedding this summer. Weddings pay well, but I've learned quickly why some photographers hate them - they can be really creatively stifling.

EVERYONE IS FAT