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Jupiter

Celestron NexStar 5i
127mm Aperture, 1250mm Focal Length, F10 telescope
Modified Vesta 675 SC Webcam
02/20/2003

 

Jupiter NexStar 5i Mavica FD-92This was Jessica's first snap shot of Jupiter with the Mavica FD-92 using a 25mm EP & EP projection, ALTAZ using the N5i.

 

Celestron NexStar 5i
127mm Aperture, 1250mm Focal Length, F10 telescope
Celestron F6.3 Focal Reducer to Cheap Flip Mirror to Mogg F0.6 FR to Modified Vesta 675 SC Webcam
Equatorially Aligned
03/15/2003 - Donna's stuff
Jupite and moons NexStar 5i focal reducers and Vesta SC

Above : Jupiter with moons and a star or two. This was taken using the standard Vesta software, gain up so I could see the moons, but obviously overexposed for the planet.

 
Jupiter with more detail but not much

The above is with lower gain and 1/50s exposure. I was just fooling around because you wouldn't normally use a focal reducer, let alone two, if you're doing the planets.

 

 
Now we're collecting with K3CCD Tools and longer exposures. The moon was out (see below) and very high and bright, so I was getting a lot of sky glow after 20 seconds. It never dawned on me to reduce the gain and see what I could do, so I pretty much just imaged at 10s. As for where in the Beehive the above is, I'm not sure. I don't think it is the main part.
This is M48, which is a nice open cluster. Nothing special about the above.
I can't figure out if I over sharpened. Some of me thinks I did, and some of me likes how it turned out. I tried to splice the four moon images together to get a mosaic, but there was a funny little slice in the middle that I didn't like so I gave up.
 
 
 

 

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