Milky Way

Hi All
Missed posting this image I took with the Canon with its regular lense in place
Piggy back on the C8...Angle of the photo due to the mount

                                                                 Milky Way South

Observing Sept 20

Had a session observing and imaging with the Celestron 8 inch GPS and the Canon Rebel no guiding

Heres some of the results.....            Was quite cool.                        Quit about midnight

Double cluster

                                                                       M11

Dumbell Nebula

                

M52

Jupiter and Orion

Image taken at 3,30am Sept 2012
Jupiter and Orion

Addition to last post

     Heres an example of wide field photo of
     M27 Dumbell Nebula

         If you want you can crop the image with photoshop
                            and heres the results

                        The Dumbell Nebula Taken with an 80 mm achromat
                                          and a Canon Rebel XT

Aug 23rd Guiding tests

Finally got the PC to take the Guide camera  Meade  and the Canon Rebel XT all together
Also running StarryNight pro at the same time.Programs running were
 Nebulosity
PHD Guiding
Starry Night Pro
That meant 2 camera,s on usb ports and Starrynight for telescope control on the serial port
Quite a handfull for any PC

                                                 Imaged a one minuite Vega

                                                Also did the Coat hanger for Ray

                                                  This is a cropped image of M57.
                                                  .Not great but does show the ring

                                                  Heres the image it was cropped from

                                                         Its M57 but wide field

                              All taken with the Canon XT and the 80 mm F5 short tube Nexstar

M8 and M20 11th July 2011

Tried the Canon 350 on the Southern sky and imaged M8 Lagoon and The Triffid Nebula
One min Exposure with the 80 mm Nexstar Unguided

                                         

Aurora Borealis 16 June

Red Sky Aurora North Alexandria at Midnight

Terry

Transit of Venus June 5th 2012

Hi all
Some images of the Venus Transit Cornwall Square Parking lot

Top one with Black mylar filter and bottom one with silver mylar filter on 80 mm scope

Terry

May 15th 2012

Images taken with Canon Rebel and Nexstar GPS

                                                                            M104

                                                                             M65

                                                                        m81

                                                                            M82

New Mexico Visit VLA plus Roswell

Redo of Richards M51 image

Hi Richard With a little stretching of Contrast and Brightness heres your last M51 image

Hope you dont mind me adjusting it

Was done with photoshop

Terry

Mars rerun Registax

Did a re-tweek of Registax and a little bit more detail

Shows the Polar Cap quite well

MARCH 21ST IMAGING

Venus

M42

Mars

Imaging 21st march

Venus with Point and shoot digital camera eyepiece projection

M42 with Canon Rebel XT and Nexstar 8 gps single 30 second image

Mars with Sac7 650 video frames processed with Registax 4 and Pshop

Coudnt resist getting the cameras out again

South Carolina

Hi all

Had a big storm and took this shot from the condo window..Kodak point and shoot iso 64 ten seconds at f5,6 Hylton Head South Carolina

Terry

Moon and Venus encounter

Moon and Venus encounter

Taken with a Kodak Point and shoot

25th Feb 2012 at 7 pm

Jan 29 2012

M42

Half Moon

M46 plus small ring nebula

M45

M78 Small nebula in Orion

All done with the Canon Rebel and 80 mm Nexstar