Not much to see here, but had my first night of observing with my new scope the other night and took my first astrophotograph! Of course, it was of Saturn.
I am learning that astrophotography is a demanding hobby and I am very impressed with what others have accomplished and published on the web. None the less, I was quite happy to get an image on my first try using a Canon Powershot G1 in auto mode with a single exposure (lol). The only retouch I did was to level the image in photoshop. Sadly, the image sucks compared with what I could see by eye. Pretty good considering it was eyepiece projection, I was not polar aligned, did not have the right filters, no stacking, no guiding, shooting from a flexible wooden deck, no vibration pads and the scope was wobbling as the image was taken by pushing the shoot button on the camera. I hope to learn enough to get some longer exposure stacks soon, and then move on towards auto guided imaging. So much to learn.
It's a start at the least ;-)
Thursday, February 10, 2005
News Alert: I took a crappy photo of Saturn!
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5 comments:
It is a terrific start towards your new hobby!
Can you track the comet too...maybe a picture as well?
Keep posting theyre great no matter what because they are your own images from your own telescope..
Why, I didn't even have a telescope when I first started. I had to use toilet roll tubes with cellophane wrapped around one end and a brown pug beer bottle bottem at the other end... when I was starting out...LOL
Heh,
I'll try and get a snap of Macholtz (sp?). Skies have not been good lately though.
Thanks for the encouragement.
Y
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