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Saturn n Moons

Here is a couple of the shots from last night. One of Saturn with 6 of her 60 odd Moons and a single frame shot of our one and only lonely photon chucking reflector.

I named the moons so you can know which ones are which when you look with your scope. You can quite easily pick out the moons with a modest scope.

All shot with Canon 600D prime focus on the wedged LX90

Polar align done!

Finally got the polar align happening with the LX90, did a drift alignment as well. Need more practice but getting there.

Took a couple fairly wide shots of Saturn trying to capture the moons and then got some nice snaps and vid of the Photon chucking reflector.

Now just need time to process them.

What ya want?

What do you want here, what kind of content? random stuff? Reviews? Tutorials? what?

Please let me know.

1yr CCD

My QHY8 CCD will be one year this month and I still haven't one image out of it yet :/

Hoping this year's winter will be better than the last and I can finally get some photons on that tasty sensor.

Incorperation Ad

Just payed $45 to place the intent to apply for incorporation advertisement in the Geraldton Guardian for this Friday so after the 11th of June we can officially apply for incorporation if no objections occur.

The ball has started to roll...

2012 Perigee Moon

‎50 frames taken with Canon 550D and Tamron 70-200 with 2X telextender on a normal tripod.

Odd weather

After stormy weather all last night and today it now cleared up for a bit. To drag out scope or not?

Few photos taken recently

 

 

 

I'm back,

After an extended period of non activity here I have returned with the aim to post here on a regular basis off all happenings

Still crap

The weather is happily continuing to be total crap, totally over it

Had planned to head out to a dark site for a bit of imaging last night as the wind was meant to drop down a bit. The wind did drop and even the temp dropped to 20c at about 9pm but the seeing was shocking, refracting twinkles all around zenith, bleh!

Forecast is not looking good either, cloud and horrid wind.



Update....

Got a couple hours of imaging in last night as it was still and clear. Even though it was a stinking hot day the seeing was quite decent. Glad I took advantage of the time as it has now turned back to total shite with continual heat, blasting winds and the cloud has headed right back in. Would have been nice to be able to do get some viewing and imaging in this weekend with the new moon but no such luck, again.

No good weather at all on the horizon and the moon is coming back as well...SNAFU

Imaging Rig

Almost got the EQ6 Pro and 8" imaging setup happening with a Asus netbook. Got EQMOD, PHD, Stellarium and Canon interface. Recorded a preliminary PEC and got the PHD guide setup functioning. Just need some nice weather to give it a test run.

Here is test 5min test shot of M42

One day...

One day we will get some nice weather for some astro...one day

I managed to get about a hour in the cloud gaps on the moon and jupiter couple nights ago. Pulled the LX90 out and took the wedge of and used the binoviewers. Would have been nice if the wind and cloud gave up for once.

Bleh!

Bleh! summer is well and truly here now, back to month after month of stinking hot days and nights. Been great lately too as the days the wind blows and the skies are clear then when evening arives the wind dies off but the stupid clouds roll on in and the humidity skyrockets. Just can't win.