Sky at Night Magazine

In my experience planetary imaging is quite a challenge due to the infinitely variable weather.

A few nights ago I spent a good hour or so taking image after image of Jupiter until I got one that I was happy with. This is the best one. Taken with a 10" 'Altair Astro carbon fibre deluxe RC with DMK 21AU618 camera. I attached a Meade CCD dichromic red filter to the camera as well as a ...

My Coronado PST arrived this lunchtime so I had a little play and took a couple of photos by holding the digital camera to the telescope eyepiece.

Not edited this is as it came out of the camera.
Chris

Canon 1000d + 3x Barlow and 5x zoom in Backyard EOS, 120frames




Io transit finishes.
DMK21af04, 3x barlow and 200p
pipped and registaxed, 720 frames each.

And here it is... My new focuser... Waiting for its first star test!

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Here's one of Jupiter I took on the 21st October with my Philips SPC900NC webcam attached to my
Orion Optics 200mm f/6 Newtonian. I struggled to focus due to the awful rack & pinion focuser but eventually got as near as I could (I was so frustrated that I went and bought a Moonlite CR1 the next day).
I Can't wait for clear skies to try out the new focuser and do another attempt at ...

Hi

A pondering the purchase of a telescope to have a pop at astrophotography. However, have managed to get these pictures of the moon with a Sony HX100V 'Bridge' camera at full 30x zoom on a tripod. Any other users on here managed to get some reasonable pictures using only their compact digital?

Lovely Auroral arc over the solway firth taken from Whitehaven in cumbria

I put together this short time-lapse of asteroid "2 Pallas" this evening when it was at opposition: http://youtu.be/vgev7CpWwxQ

I used robotic telescopes in the Canary Islands to take the images. It was part of a "Month of Live Astronomy" that I'm involved with. I've put together a load of videos after each show on my YouTube Channel (astrocox) - loads on Jupiter, comet 168P/Hergenrother brightening, a few PHAs to ...

Hi all,

Managed to get my scopes out over the last few weeks after some tinkering during the summer months.

Here is a go at Jupiter about 1:20am.

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and also managed to get a shot of NGC6888 - Pic here https://sites.google.com/site/squif3/observing-notes/part-2

Imaged at 02:07 BST.

Just wondering if the disruption in the equatorial belts was caused by the impact on 10 sep 12.