Astrophotography

Drakkith

Nice! I don't even have a camera with adjustable exposure other than the one specifically for my telescope.

Redbelly98

As Drakkith said ... nice! Even without the meteor.

I'm not spotting the plane, where is it?

sas3

The plane is the bright streak the meteor is to the right and much dimmer heading into the trees

russ_watters

Haven't done much lately, but here's a shot of Jupiter last week, with Io passing in front of it. I took a dozen sets and the quality was inconsistent, but this is one of the better ones. I'm still working on processing and will probably put together an animation of most of the transit.

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chroot

One of my recent favorites, of the Andromeda Galaxy:



- Warren

Jamie Kern

There are lots of lovely shots here - I particularly like Russ' - I'm very impressed with the detail you got on those galaxies. I'm going to spend some time looking through all of these!

I feel a duty to link to my observatory's Astrophotography page. Not everything is up there - just some particularly nice shots people took through our old facility. We're currently in the process of setting up the main instrument at the new one.

Bridgewater State University's Astrophotography
Enjoy!

Edit: Wow, chroot - that's lovely. I'm confused as to how I missed it five minutes ago!

sas3

The aurora were out last night and I took some pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69555355@N07/6965195608/

Drakkith

Nice!

Some Slacker

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b.../NearFull1.jpg

This was two nights work just fiddling around, I have no kind of equipment to actually do any real astrophotography but I gave it a shot.

Taken with a Bushnell Dob 8" using afocal coupling and a cheap digital camera (real cheap) and an 18 mm lens.

sas3

I Shot this with my Coulter Odyssey 1 and a cheap Garmin GPS (has a built in camera like a cellphone) held up to the eyepiece

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69555355@N07/7112650509/

Some Slacker

Nice! I like it!

I see we had the same problem with way too much light as the details (except near the edges) got a bit washed out. (Putting the camera up to the lens = afocal coupling, or something... heh)

sas3

I used an off-axis aperture stop as seen below
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1119/...4d4c8a2f41.jpg (Not my picture)

That helps a lot, without it the moon hurts your eyes.

Bikersquirrel

Hi noob here :) I only recently managed to really get into astrophotography (kids often dictate otherwise i.e no time!), and decided to test run my shiny new camera on the super moon. I did manage to get a few reasonably good shots, but they were all a bit too dark. I looked.up some advice on the best settings to use on my camera, and was recommended to switch the ISO to 100. I tried again the next night but just couldn't get the exposure right. Any suggestions? I'm using a fuji HS20 EXR bridge camera. Thanks in advance!

Drakkith

Bikersquirrel, I don't shoot with a normal camera so I can't really help you much on the settings, but if you head over to cloudynights.com and hit up the DSLR forum or beginning and intermediate astrophotography forum there should be plenty of people who can help you.

sas3

Venus transit photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69555355@N07/7158053251/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/69555355@N07/7158054785//

sas3

And one more Venus Sun Transit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69555355@N07/7158344253/

Drakkith

Excellent shot of the transit of Venus Sas3!