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Star trails and Moon 
  pyjioh
 
08:15pm 07/01/2012
  Star trails of the Big Dipper
Star trails - движение Большой Медведицы. Самолет пересекает середину фотографии.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Shutter Speed: 20 second * 43 count
FNumber: F/5.6
Focal Length: 29 mm
ISO Speed: 800

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Total Lunar Eclipse, Dec 11, Sydney, Australia 
  rinkle
 
08:56pm 11/12/2011
  ~ 2 am, approximately the end of totality. Taken through a 12 inch telescope. A panorama of two shots.

  
     

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Attention Astro_Photo moderator 
  wordxword
 
04:59pm 22/05/2010
  I'll try again, since replying to the post wouldn't take.

Yes, get rid of the spam below this message. How do I keep this crap from showing up on my friends list w/o unsubscribing to Astro_photo?

Aaargh.

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Some Tuesday SHINY 
  dr_nebula
 
12:36pm 18/08/2009
 
mood: accomplished
..And unlike other image posters - I won't bork-up your LJ!

How, you may ask? Well, that's easy - if the image is larger than 800 pixels wide, I'll put it behind a cut tag. It's an easy thing to do and I wish more of my readers would practice this simple measure.

OK, enough bitching - here's a few new SHINY taken over the weekend.

We'll start off with a couple unconventional lunar craters., By and large, most craters are round and/or polygonal in shape and have bowl-shaped floors. Oddly shaped craters imply unusual circumstances and/or modification by geologic forces. One of the largest and weirdest looking craters on the Moon is Schiller.



What do you think it looks like? A gourd? Footprint? Or something *else*?

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Orion Min-EQ Tabletop Equatorial Mount w/EQ-1M Electronic Drive System 
  death_by_soy
 
11:52pm 05/08/2009
  I'm going camping in Cherry Springs, PA this month and really wanted to try my hand at astrophotography. Seeing as I'm almost never around dark skies, I don't want to drop a lot of money- but do want to try taking exposures longer than 30 seconds w/out trails. I was wondering if anyone has tried the Orion Min-EQ Tabletop Equatorial Mount and if it would be good enough for 5-15 minute shots w/up to a 50mm lens?
Or has anyone had success w/ a barn door tracker?
If you've had good results from either the orion or a barn door- could you pretty please post the pics?

Thanks!		  
     

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Night Sky; 
  marecreatura
 
01:18pm 04/08/2009
 


Cheltenham Badlands, ON.
Make: Panasonic
Model: DMC-FZ18
Shutter Speed: 600/10 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 5 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Aug 3, 2009, 12:16:31 AM		  
     

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Jupiter And The Galilean Moons; 
  marecreatura
 
03:54pm 03/08/2009
 

In Order: Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter, Io, Europa.
Photographed at The Cheltenham Badlands, ON.


i know it's not the most fantastic photo, but the fact that my little Panasonic Lumix could capture Jupiter and 4 of its moons made me squee a little bit ;)

is anyone watching the occultation of 45 Cap tonight?		  
     

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For those smoked out last night. 
  gsharper13
 
07:16pm 05/07/2009
 

Mare Humorum. The large crater extending into the Maria is called Gassendi.



Jupiter with Io on the left and Europa on the right.

Had some trouble getting the Jupiter shot as the dew was so heavy it dripped every 10 seconds off the scope. Had to defrost the main lense twice before this was taken. It was taken about 1:40am.		  
     

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Jupiter and Neptune 
  gsharper13
 
06:27am 30/05/2009
  For those without a telescope, or just don't want to be up this early in the morning (4:30am). Here is Jupiter, it's 4 moons, and Neptune. I apologize for the rough quality of these but they were done on the fly holding the point and shoot digital camera to the eyepiece on a 12.5" dobsonian.



From left to right starting on the bottom. Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter with Europa transiting, and Io. The top blue dot is Neptune. 50x with a 32mm EP. FOV is 0.7°.



This is a closeup of Neptune. 99x with a 16mm EP.		  
     

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  kurjos
 
01:22pm 16/05/2009
 

 
     

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Moon on April 22, 2009 at 6:44am 
  saiberiac
 
01:21pm 24/04/2009
  Moon April 22nd, 2009 6:44am

I'm a newbie to the sky, just wondering if that's Venus or a star below the moon?		  
     

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Mooning Around.. 
  dr_nebula
 
10:19am 07/04/2009
 
mood: accomplished
A Collaborative Effort

If you had attended Pixie's b-day party, you might have noticed the absence of the doctor for a couple hours. Some of that time I was observing and check in the field, at other times I was busy imaging. [info]eaterofgodz and I were working on making a Lunar Mosaic with his old 6.3 MP Canon and my 12-inch LX200. After a lot of test shots to set the proper focus and exposure, we set about making the mosaic.

Using the dual axis drives, the Moon was subdivided into 6 sections. At least 5 exposures were taken for each section, the best would be stacked and used for the final composite.

Other specs: 12-inch LX200 at f/10 (focal length = 3.04 meters)

Later that evening, [info]eaterofgodz worked on smoothing out and getting precise matching of the sections to produce the mosaic. He would send along .tif files, and I would sharpen (using unsharp masking) and work on adjusting the contrast.

First, a small image:

The "Moon" - April 4th at ~ 10 PM EDT





And now, one at 50% of Full Scale - 2.6k x 2.1k pixels:
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This is the first of (hopefully) many new collaborative astro-imaging projects including LARGE lunar crescent (plus Earthshine) and Full Moon phases, Milky Way clouds and huge nebula vistas.



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just moon 
  pyjioh
 
12:18pm 13/03/2009
  Canon 400D + SW909EQ2, one shot


click image to see a larger version		  
     

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Cheltenham Badlands, ON; 
  burninghorizens
 
01:57pm 12/03/2009
 
 
     

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Enhanced Lunar Color 
  gravityslens
 
12:07pm 03/01/2009
 




Single exposure, Canon 20D, using eyepiece projection and variable tele-extender on 8-inch SCT.
  
     

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ARGH!!! 
  atomicat
 
09:20pm 12/12/2008
 
ARGH!!!
(Please excuse sloppy wording on linked post, was up for 48 hours)

*sigh*

So, any pics?
 
  
     

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Lunar / Planetary Conjunction 
  premkudva
 
10:44am 08/12/2008
 

Photo taken in India, and so note the celestial smiley;-) North America got the celestial frown that too upside down.		  
     

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Lunar / Planetary Conjunction 
  gravityslens
 
09:49am 06/12/2008
 




The moon, Venus and Jupiter. Monday, December 1st, 2008.
  
     

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Spotting scopes? 
  alexanderc
 
06:53pm 18/11/2008
  Have any of you ever had experience with a spotting scope such as the Celestron C70 or C90 Maksutovs? Until I save up enough for a full-size telescope, I figured a spotting scope would be a great way to start observing and photographing. If you have another recommendation, that's even better.

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The Milky Way 
  blue_celery
 
10:17pm 29/10/2008
  I'll make this short:

I'm interested in taking some photographs of the night sky, and especially the Milky Way. I live in East Tennessee...is there any particular place I should go to view the Milky Way, or will I be able to find it at the right time/looking in the right direction anywhere that lacks any sort of artificial light?

Also, any other tips for finding it or where to look are greatly appreciated. Thanks, and I've really enjoyed looking at the photographs in this community...I'm quite new to photographing the sky.		  
     

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