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The Moon Through Our Telescope

Glenn Crocker — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:33:46 +0000

We have a little telescope, and were out looking at the moon a few weeks ago. The image through the eyepiece was just amazing, and I thought I might be able to get a picture of it holding my DSLR camera. It worked out pretty well!

Jupiter Pic

Glenn Crocker — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:11:53 +0000

This is a picture I took 6/28/2008, of Jupiter.

This is a stack of 10 frames, produced and stacked in k3ccdtools, with our Celestron NexStar 130 SLT and a Logitech QuickCam with a bare CCD inserted as the eyepiece. Skies were messy, and my focus wasn’t quite right. Collimation is probably also off.

Moon Pic

Glenn Crocker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:52:31 +0000

Just a quick pic from a webcam session with our telescope from a while back. I’m getting back into the planetary and lunar imaging these days.

Nice Night for the Telescope

Glenn Crocker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:43:30 +0000

Looks like tonight might be a nice night to get the telescope out. I do need to collimate it first, and grab an updated sky map. Here’s a sky condition thingie for a nearby observatory:

Pesky moon. Not dark enough to see much other than it tonight.