Astrophoto thread (your own photos please)

[Fabri91]

A pass of the ISS here a few days ago: went by right above me, 90° elevation!

 

[george7378]

Wow - those guys up there really get around I love seeing the ISS framed by different horizons all around the world!

 

[Yurik]

Jupiter shot through my telescope. Processing Registaks 6, about 200 frames. Eyepiece projection of 18 mm. Telescope 200mm f/6 dobsonian (no auto tracking :lol: ). The camera in the video mode is 640 * 480 30 fps. Still learning to process the material :facepalm:

 

[Yurik]

Hello. Today's ISS pass with Moon transit

How do you tracking it? Wat's mount?

 

[Yurik]

My best ISS frames :shrug:

 

[Yurik]

Saturn through my telescope. Processing Registaks 6, about 1000 frames. Eyepiece projection of 18 mm. Telescope 200mm f/6 dobsonian (no auto tracking ). The camera in the video mode is 640*480, 30 fps.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

First run with the webcam/telescope setup last night.





Unfortunately the webcam used was very cheap, and it only does black & white, so I couldnt get much detail at all. I guess Ill have to find a more expensive piece of hardware to mangle.

I also got my first view of Saturn last night, which was truly knock-your-socks-off amazing. Even though the apparent size is much smaller, the colour contrast makes for an incredible view.

 

[Unstung]

First run with the webcam/telescope setup last night.





Unfortunately the webcam used was very cheap, and it only does black & white, so I couldnt get much detail at all. I guess Ill have to find a more expensive piece of hardware to mangle.

How are you able to determine the order of the moons other than going by their proximity to Jupiter? I would've just assumed that Ganymede and Callisto were swapped, but couldn't be certain.

 

[sitha241]

How are you able to determine the order of the moons other than going by their proximity to Jupiter? I would've just assumed that Ganymede and Callisto were swapped, but couldn't be certain.

you can see in stellarium or some other program what are you looking at

 

[asbjos]

you can see in stellarium or some other program what are you looking at

... Orbiter Space Flight Simulator, for example..?

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

How are you able to determine the order of the moons other than going by their proximity to Jupiter? I would've just assumed that Ganymede and Callisto were swapped, but couldn't be certain.

I used a chart that was in a copy of Astronomy magazine that I bought recently. Callisto & Ganymede were tough to tell, since they did a criss-cross right around the time I took the shot, but I labelled them based on relative magnitude, since one is brighter than the other by an order of magnitude.

... Orbiter Space Flight Simulator, for example..?

:lol: Where do I get me one of those?!?

I find Orbiter terrific, save for this particular case, since aligning the camera around Jupiter to match the view from Earth is clumsy to do. I always use a scenario with a single UMMU at my location on Earth before going stargazing though. Orbiter has a million uses

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

The night sky is just spoiling me rotten right now.



Saturn is quite a sight, much better than Jupiter, since it has some really spectacular contrast between rings, planet, and background.

 

[sitha241]

Moon
15.5.2013.
Taken with 7 cm telescope and webcam
Stacked in registax

 

[boogabooga]

Venus-Jupiter-Mercury alignment. May 24, 2013.
Taken with my digital camera.

 

[Yoda]

Saturn tonight.
Meade LX90 10" with QHY5T camera,Televue 2x Barlow, 77 images stacked in Registack

 

[Zsolt33]

My first Jupiter photos from February:
-my telescope and Scopium Moon and planet CCD Camera:


My first Saturn photos from this week:
-Skywatcher 250/1200 Newton, 3x barlow, Scopium Moon and planet CCD Camera:

 

[Fabri91]

Very bright Iridum flare (-7.5 magnitude IIRC) from about a week and a half ago:

 

[Messierhunter]

Pinwheel Galaxy M101. 18x300 second exposures with an Atik Titan-C and Orion ST-80 piggybacked on an LX200 classic:

June image of Saturn. 227 frames stacked in Registax from an 8" LX200 @ f/20 and modified Samsung SDC-435.

 

[Yurik]

Jupiter with 3 satellites. Shadow of Ganymede on planet. 08-11-2013

 

[Yoda]

Was up early this AM in my observatory taking images of Jupiter with my 10"LX90. Caught Io's shadow crossing the Jupiter clouddeck.
10" LX90, 2x barlow, Phillips webcam, 2100 images stacked in Registack.