Anybody here take any pictures?

[mojobojo]

Of what I mean anything besides anything on Earth. We found a half decent telescope at Good Will and bought it. It was good, but I couldn't share the experience with people so I figured out how to mount a camera onto it so I can take some pictures.

Here are the pictures

Edited August 30, 2013 by mojobojo

[Aphox]

Made this in December of 2011

[rodion_herrera]

My dabble with astrophotography. Would take time to take them out from my portable drive, so I pulled these off my Facebook albums, thus some have degraded quality, so pardon for that.

June 15/16, 2011, Total Lunar Eclipse, Cebu City, Philippines. Just ingress. In totality.

Solar prominences. Afocal shot taken with a Coronado PST (H-Alpha) solar telescope, using a 10mm eyepiece, and Sony Xperia S phone camera. Taken at Peñaplata, Samal Island, Davao City, Philippines, January 18, 2013.

This is an image of the surface of the moon centered around the smooth-bottomed (no central peak) crater named La Caille. Originally taken on January 31, 2012, this is originally an AVI. I processed 319 frames of this video file into Registax 6, and this was the result of my stacking. I'm not very pleased with it, but then I'm still learning Registax. It's still a useful image to distinguish craters with primarily impact melt floors and lack of central peaks.

Venus Transit of June 5, 2012. Taken around 10:15 AM, +8 GMT. Was fortunate to witness 2 Venus Transits in my lifetime, but I wasn't able to take photos back in 2004.

Partial Solar Eclipse, May 21, 2012, Bangkal, Davao City, Philippines. 6:15 AM +8 GMT. Note the two sunspots on the upper limb of the sun.

This one is blurry but for me, one of my proudest shots (because it was so difficult to take with my cheapo camera!)

[Echostatic]

All my photos come from my iPhone. I just got this tonite. It's the first image I ever managed to improve with Registax. (I'm sure it could be *much* better, but I'm not really sure how to improve it.)

These pictures are older, before I knew of stacking software so they are pretty much unedited.

[K^2]

That is an absolutely beautiful shot. I'm assuming reflector telescope? How big was the mirror on this one?

[Echostatic]

That is an absolutely beautiful shot. I'm assuming reflector telescope? How big was the mirror on this one?

Thank you! I have a Celestron 8 SE (8" aperature). I also had unusually good seeing.

[Unit One]

May 12, 2012 partial eclipse. I took this from Las Vegas, NV. Using a Samsung Galaxy S2 camera through a Meade 127mm Newtonian, f/8 with light filter (Which is much different than a solar filter...)

[K^2]

8" aperature

I was going to say 8". Last time I saw Saturn in that sort of clarity was looking through an 8" reflector.

[Echostatic]

So it turns out the sun is pretty hard to photograph and work with in Registax, but I tried anyway using my own Coronado PST.

Actually I grabbed a frame from a video, it's not terrible either.

Edited July 5, 2013 by Echostatic

[Johnno]

Here's a couple of mine.

[Echostatic]

Wow, those craters are very clear.

[AncientAstronaut]

Keep this thread alive. It's AWESOME.

[Galacticruler]

What he said, this is awesome.

[Echostatic]

The moon should be back out here later this month, I intend to post some photos around then. Unfortunately Saturn will be the only planet visible here until late November, when Jupiter shows itself again.

[PakledHostage]

Does LEO count as not "on Earth"? Here's the ISS going over downtown Vancouver one evening while Chris Hadfield was still aboard as commander. It would have been a better picture if there was water in the pool, but you take what you can get:

Edit: Here's another one that I took a week or so ago. The full moon on the evening of June 22nd, 2013 taken with a 300 mm lens. It is probably a bit underexposed (1/125 sec, f/8, ISO 100), but I am still learning. I also tried to get out to photograph Comet Panstarrs this past spring, but we didn't have any clear nights during the few days that I was visible in my part of the world. Hopefully I'll have better luck with Comet Ison this coming autumn.

Edited July 9, 2013 by PakledHostage

[astropapi1]

I'm so jealous of you guys... I'm on a populated city in which you can barely see any stars, and all I've got is my iPod's camera.

I want to take cool pics of the moon.

[Bioman222]

I nearly got to take a picture of Venus about 10 minutes ago, but, I was too late.

[Echostatic]

I'm so jealous of you guys... I'm on a populated city in which you can barely see any stars, and all I've got is my iPod's camera.

I want to take cool pics of the moon.

I live right smack in the middle of Dallas, Tx and I use my iPhone to take pictures. You don't need a fancy telescope to photograph the moon, either. Look at the moon photos in the first post in this thread, you don't need anything special to do that.

[Brotoro]

Most recent astrophotographs...

Comet PANSTARRS, 2013:

Venus transit, June 2012:

Annular Eclipse (projection method), May 2012:

Comet McNaught in broad daylight, 2007:

Edited July 8, 2013 by Brotoro

[Marshmallow_Man]

I'll keep the thread going

I have some of Venus, buts its just a very bright glowing ball, I can't find the Saturn ones.

Edited July 10, 2013 by Marshmallow_Man
Added Venus

[Motokid600]

Whirlpool Galaxy

Swan Nebula

Ring Nebula

Lagoon Nebula

Hercules Globular Cluster

Eagle Nebula ( Pillars of Creation )

Andromeda Galaxy

All taken with a CPC1100 telescope. These pictures are all single exposures. The trick is to take 30 or so of the same picture and stack them in Photoshop to increase the signal/noise ratio. Ive been into astrophotography for a few years now, Ive still got a ways to go to perfect the hobby ( its the hardest form of photography and its expensive ), but every successful exposure taken is the reward.

I took this video WAY back when I first got the scope. I simply held a camera right up to the eyepiece. The black spot on Jupiter is a shadow from one of the moons. Im not sure which one, but the ones visible in this video are Europa and Io judging from the color. Recommend high res and full screen.

[Motokid600]

Im sorry everyone, but I would like to bump this thread. Do we have any amateur astronomers in the house? Also heres two pics of mine I forgot to post earlier.

The Dumbbell Nebula. ( Probably my best one )

The Orion Nebula. ( Visible to the naked eye as a blurry star. )

I'm so jealous of you guys... I'm on a populated city in which you can barely see any stars, and all I've got is my iPod's camera.

I want to take cool pics of the moon.

You do not need dark skies at all for planetary viewing and pictures. Believe it or not the best planet pictures ive ever seen are taken from the densest cities on Earth. The hot air column coming off the top of the entire city can actually make for a much more stable atmosphere which is the most important thing when viewing planets.

I highly recommend this forum for anyone who's into astronomy.

Cloudy nights

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/Imaging

Edited July 16, 2013 by Motokid600

[Echostatic]

Just before the clouds rolled in...

[DragonRoco]

The Moon by Roco4797, on Flickr

A nice bright one with the moon.

Night Sky by Roco4797, on Flickr

Probably my best photo

MotoKid your photos look wonderful what camera and telescope do you use? Once I get my 60D I will try to use my telescope too.

Edited July 21, 2013 by DragonRoco

[Buzzkil88]

awesome pics everyone.