Got some clear skies last night for a change, but the clouds moved in to spoil it not long after I got setup
I wanted to image Mars last night (which I did) because it is the closest its been to earth for two years, and now it will be moving away and will appear smaller. For this Moon shot I used my 40d @ prime focus on my 6" Maksutov Cassegrain (f/12). The image is of two seperate exposures (two halves of the Moon) combined in ps elements.
I managed to coax some detail out of this image of Mars, not very impressive, but it is only a single image. Focusing was made very difficult because of my scope's image shift, ie when I adjust focus on the scope the image moves. I think I can upgrade my scope's focuser for zero image shift, I may look in to this as its very annoying having an image move off frame when focusing. Also, the air was not steady either.
For this image, I used a Tele vue 5x powermate and an infrared filter (helps produce a sharper image) with my 40d attached to the powermate, and of course the 6' Maksutov cassegrain telescope.
I wanted to image Mars last night (which I did) because it is the closest its been to earth for two years, and now it will be moving away and will appear smaller. For this Moon shot I used my 40d @ prime focus on my 6" Maksutov Cassegrain (f/12). The image is of two seperate exposures (two halves of the Moon) combined in ps elements.
![Moon-23-dec-07e.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dejavuphoto.net%2FPhotographs%2FAstro%2FMoon-23-dec-07e.jpg&hash=59198ac6ad21f8f5c146d3fa6207c5e5)
I managed to coax some detail out of this image of Mars, not very impressive, but it is only a single image. Focusing was made very difficult because of my scope's image shift, ie when I adjust focus on the scope the image moves. I think I can upgrade my scope's focuser for zero image shift, I may look in to this as its very annoying having an image move off frame when focusing. Also, the air was not steady either.
For this image, I used a Tele vue 5x powermate and an infrared filter (helps produce a sharper image) with my 40d attached to the powermate, and of course the 6' Maksutov cassegrain telescope.
![Mars-23-dec-07.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dejavuphoto.net%2FPhotographs%2FAstro%2FMars-23-dec-07.jpg&hash=08c3617596034d2902e5a53c6c5ce2ef)