Photographing the night sky

[arbell9]

My 1st attempts at photographing the moon. Did it on Manual, quite a bit of trial and error to understand how the settings affected the photo. I am chuffed with the end result though. It was taken Sunday night in Absersoch.

I also had a go at taking a picture of Venus. This was much harder to judge on the little screen if the shot was any good.

[Bibs]

What lens did you use for the shots?

[arbell9]

It was my 50-200 lens.

[Simon350S]

Cool dude... Nice and clear

Have you tried photographing Uranus yet?

[arbell9]

There are only certain astrological postitions where that is in view, maybe you can help me photograph it

[Bibs]

Simon, did you not see the moon in the first pic?

[Simon350S]

Yes I did bibaloo and it was cracking....

I was talking about getting a photo with a crack-in though!

Any time Alex, let me know when your ready and I'll come ASSist you

Edited October 17, 2011 by Simon350S

[arbell9]

Make sure you have the wide angle lens

[rogerch]

It's upside down.

[ramjet]

Simon, it is poor form to make Alex the BUTT of your jokes and innuendo.

[gghc87]

Alex nice piccy's

Try Jupiter, its very bright at the moment low in the east from around 9.30 / 10pm in the uk rising slowly toward the south. Its moons are very clear.

This an early attempt of Saturn

[ramjet]

What sort of telescope are you taking that through Cliff?

Very nice.

[gghc87]

SKYMAX-127 SynScanTM AZ GOTO 127mm (5") f/1500 COMPUTERISED MAKSUTOV-CASSEGRAIN got it to play with astrophotography and its very portable which is good.

Some pics of Jupiter I took last week, not very good as still on steep learning curve

this one is a bit under exposed and fuzzy

this one is over exposed but it shows the moons around Jupiter quite well

[arbell9]

would i be able to photograph saturn just with the camera and not a scope?

[gghc87]

no reason you cant as the power of the lenses often are similar but the more distant the object the less light so the longer the exposure. This means the object will move taking into account the rotation of the earth.

Try using the movie mode of the camera, take a few hundred frames, then use a program like registax which looks at the movie frame by frame then picks out the best frames and stacks them together to produce a better photo

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[Simon350S]

Hey, there's nothing on Earth that could save us

When I feel in love with Uranus

I don't wanna give you away

Cause it makes no sense at all

Ckassic...

[gghc87]

Might as well have the whole song

http://www.lyricsmania.com/star_girl_lyrics_mcfly.html