first sunspot photos

Today i got my first images of a sunspot. It was really bright and hard to see my computer screen, when using my webcam. But i got one good image with the webcam and one good image holding my camera to the eyepiece.




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day moon from NJ

When i was at New jersey on my grandpas farm the moon was out and a helicopter was flying over, so i grabbed my grandmas canon PowerShot SX200 and tired to get the picture when the helicopter went in front of the moon but was a little late. nice camera.

re-edited saturn

This is a re-edit of the 514 stacked on aka the best one. I put it back in registax brightened it a bit and did a few other things to bring out some more detail.

best saturn-4/25/09

I believe this is the best Saturn image of all of them

Saturn 4/25/09

These Saturn images are my best yet! Tonight was a great night! i just got a focal reducer and really wanted to test it out. It worked great with the webcam. It seemed easier The FOV was bigger. The Tracking on my mount was really good. the Crosshair eyepiece i made worked good ( Info equipment section). Everything was great. I used my 2x and 3x barlow. Used Registax to process the images. I believe i used the 2x barlow for most of the images.


1148 stacked 2x barlow


635 stacked 2x barlow


514 stacked 2x barlow


265 stacked 2x barlow


150 stacked 2x barlow


1010 stacked 3x barlow

Photos 4/4/09

Yesterday i went out and took some images of the Sun with my seymour solar filter. Than later I took some images of Saturn and the moon. i took the Saturn images with Phillips spc900nc webcam and took the other picture with a Panasonic 35mm digital camera.










1.5 barlow


1.5 barlow

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tonights moon

I also took some images holding to camera of the moon. used the Panasonic 35mm digital camera.







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Orion constellation

hey, i found out how to change the exposure on my camera. i could only change it to +2 so tonight i tried some brighter objects just holding the camera. this is what i got taking the orion constellation. I only could get the bottom half from the belt down. i tired the seven sisters but its hard to see it and my hand was shaky. The camera i used was a Panasonic 35mm digital camera. zoomed 12x.


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Saturn and moon photos---3/29/09

Hey, Well tonight was somewhat clear, but the clouds moved in later. The moon was 14% full. I got some picture of that and Saturn looked cool as well. I didn't use a barlow on saturn. Used the webcam and the meade etx-125 telescope. and the uv/ir filter. now to the photos!!! I used Registax to stack the saturn images about 105 stacked each. i had some Problems running the software so i could only do short ones.
Thanks for looking!










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another Saturn

hey, here is another image of Saturn from last night. This one was Stacked about 200 times. used Registax to stack it!


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Moon

Here is a little piece on the moon i took from last night before i went inside. used webcam.


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First Sturn...

This is my first Saturn images with the Meade ETX-125. Last night it was just Beautiful out. It was about 45 degrees a very bright full moon. Saturn was behind some trees but i managed to get some images. they aren't too bad. I used my webcam a uv/ir filter, no barlow. Used Registax to stack the images.

80 images stacked


63 images stacked


60 images stacked

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Moon & venus conjunction

luckily its clear out right now, so i was able to get some images of The moon & Venus. I used our Panasonic 35mm digital camera to take this photo. enjoy!

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Moon and venus conjunction

last night I looked out the window and saw Venus and The moon pretty close to each other! and had to get a picture but the digital camera wasn't home. so i used my webcam it came out okay. i will try again tonight with the digital camera!

First Venus

I got my first Venus image tonight, it finally cleared up and thought what the heck. I used my Meade Etx-125 telescope and a scp900nc webcam no barlow. I used Registax to stack and possess the image. I stacked about 45 for each photo. they are okay for the first time!




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perigee Moon

I did a little more editing on the second moon photo. to darken it a little.

perigee Moon

Tonight the moon is 14% wider and 30% brighter. And it sure is bright! i got out there with my etx-125 held my digital camera to the eyepiece and took some images! some turned out really nice!



another really good image i took from tonight. as you may notice i caught a star.


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Moon, Jupiter and Venus conjunction

Moon, Jupiter and Venus conjunction photos from tonight. taken with a Panasonic 35mm digital camera



little closer

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Moon Stitched 2

Look at the right corner the crater that's a line. that's called Shiller, looks pretty cool. and the big crater near the center I believe is mosaic.

Moon Stitched

Hey, I downloaded this program called autostitch. so i went out tonight and got a bunch of pictures of the moon with my philips spc900nc webcam. i put all the pictures into this program and it put them together. I thought it did a pretty good job for freeware!

Used Etx-125 telescope.


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