My Astronomy Pics - The Orange Mane

Rock Chalk · 10-19-2005, 04:10 PM

First of all, let me preface by saying this is just with my cheap digital camera stuck up to the lens of the telescope and snapped. I am waiting on my CCD imager to get here so I can take long exposure, very still photographs that will be extraordinary (nebula, the gas giants, galaxies, etc). Right now, all I could get was a few pics of the moon and I got one picture of the sun situated on a sunspot (though its fairly blurry). Anyway, on to the pictures.

Rock Chalk · 10-19-2005, 04:10 PM

Rock Chalk · 10-19-2005, 04:11 PM

Rock Chalk · 10-19-2005, 04:12 PM

This shot was the only one I took with my 25mm lens. All others were taken with my 10mm lens.(Telescope lenses, not camera lenses)

Rock Chalk · 10-19-2005, 04:13 PM

The sunspot didn't come out really well because I had to shrink the size of the image and there wasn't a lot of detail on the snapshot either. A far injustice from what I saw with my telescope

But nonetheless, here it is.

Billy Clyde Puckett · 10-19-2005, 04:15 PM

Great Pics Alec. What kind of telescope and camera did you use?

Rock Chalk · 10-19-2005, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Guy

Great Pics Alec. What kind of telescope and camera did you use?

The camera is just a cheap FujiFilm digital that I got for Christmas and use when I go out and party and stuff. The telescope is a 10 inch reflector set up on an equitorial mount. An image below is the same telescope (though the motor has a computer option on it that mine doesn't nor do I need).

Northman · 10-19-2005, 04:51 PM

very nice, now go take me some pics of my pyramids.

RhymesayersDU · 10-19-2005, 04:51 PM

Where's the pic of uranus?

Billy Clyde Puckett · 10-19-2005, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by AlecRaenos

The camera is just a cheap FujiFilm digital that I got for Christmas and use when I go out and party and stuff. The telescope is a 10 inch reflector set up on an equitorial mount. An image below is the same telescope (though the motor has a computer option on it that mine doesn't nor do I need).

I have a very nice refractor telescope I bought a few years ago and I keep it up in the mountains where there is little ambiant light, but I need to go and take some lessons on using it.

I'm jealous of your pictures.

Have fun

Pezman · 10-19-2005, 07:59 PM

Great stuff Alec... Keep em coming!
A question for you. What iso speed and apeture are you using on your camera? And which format are you taking the pictures? (.raw, jpg, tiff, bmp)

broncosteven · 10-21-2005, 09:05 AM

REP Great job! Nice to see people with hobbies I love space & anything to do with space exploration.

Please do not post pictures of UrAnus!

Rock Chalk · 10-21-2005, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Pezman

Great stuff Alec... Keep em coming!
A question for you. What iso speed and apeture are you using on your camera? And which format are you taking the pictures? (.raw, jpg, tiff, bmp)

Man I dont know. I just push the button and it takes a picture. They are high quality jpg's though.

ScottXray · 06-20-2007, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Alec

Man I dont know. I just push the button and it takes a picture. They are high quality jpg's though.

Nice to know I'm not the only astronomy buff here also. I have a number of scopes but I don't get out to use them enuf. My observatory contruction stalled when my wife said.."I want to move".

2 10" Meade schmidts (one GPS and one just auto) and a 6" refractor that is just on a plain equatorial mount.

For anyone starting out keep in mind that what you see in the eyepiece will NOT look anything like what you see in the nice color photos that the manufacturer puts on the box....
almost all of the sky you see in a small telecope will look pretty much colorless, the exception being colored stars like Albireo.

The Moon and planets are still very interesting....and a good small scope can still show you lots of things up there

Nebula and galaxies will be gray. The Planets , except for Mars will look kind of like black and white (but white and grey).

The reason is that the human eyes color receptors don't work very well in dark conditions. It takes a lot of light for the eye to show color in objects. And unless you get a telescope about 16" in diameter or longer the amount of color information is overwhelmed by the brighter White black receptors.
Everybodies eyes are different, but its generally true.

So how do you get to see the color .....take pictures. That opens up a whole different subject, and things start to get REALLY complicated if you let it ....

Overall its fun and can lead to a whole spectrum of different things you'll learn from it.

NYBronco · 06-20-2007, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by RhymesayersDU

Where's the pic of uranus?

Too funny and no answer.

What's up with that?

10-19-2005, 07:59 PM	#11
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