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seadog
02-14-2007, 03:59 PM
i've had a smallish scope for a while, but i'm just getting in to taking a few pictures through it. thought i'd share them :)

the Orion Nebular
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/keyarurumon/orionnebular7feb07.jpg

Full moon
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/keyarurumon/fullmoon3.jpg

taking during the day then darkened in photoshop
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/keyarurumon/daymoon2-1.jpg
zackarybancroft
02-14-2007, 04:14 PM
Some really nice photos!:)
blinddog 99
02-14-2007, 04:35 PM
Wow, nice pics!
Whit
02-14-2007, 04:50 PM
Will make some extremely nice reffrence shots:partyalone:
Marz
02-14-2007, 05:29 PM
how do you take pictures through a telescope? They're awesome btw

WILL
seadog
02-14-2007, 06:41 PM
thanks :) i think planets and nebular would be interesting to have a go airbrushing.

i have a mount that attaches round the telescope lens which has a standard camera screw fitting on it. it's just a fairly basic point and shoot 5 megapixel digi cam. i set it to manual. up the ISO to 800 for anything other than the moon..
for the nebular i set the exposure time to the max which is 15 seconds. then i put the timer on. so there is 10 seconds after i've pressed the button before it takes a shot, that way hopefully all the vibrations will have gone and i'll get a decent pic.

the telescope mount is motorised so it tracks what ever i'm looking at, allowing me to take long exposure shots, but it's not great. the scope was only cheap