Brace yourself for some truly terrible photos of Mars which you can find on my web site.
I’ve had these photos for quite some time and have been meaning to add them, partly tongue-in-cheek, and partly as a momento of my very first attempts at astrophotography with my XT10 telescope. I took these in December 2007 [...] Read more »
As promised in my previous days post, here are pictures of Jupiter taken with my Philips SPC900NC webcam, and after processing them.
This is the very first time I have taken Jupiter, and the conditions were not very good. I had a very short slot of time to get set up and take the movies, Jupiter [...] Read more »
Tonight I have brought the Astrophotography section of my web site to life by creating a sub-section showing the pictures I have taken of the Moon.
Although I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to astrophotography, the point is to show folk what I was able to produce on my very first attempt [...] Read more »
Another interesting email I received recently, which may provide some answers to other folk:-
Jim,
I too am new to astronomy and bought a 8″ Orion SkyQuest XT8. I’ve been playing around some old webcams but am only able to get an image using an eyepiece and leaving the lens on the webcam. Am I missing something [...] Read more »
Someone emailed me about how well the XT10i fares for astrophotography, and I thought our email conversation might be useful to other people considering the XT10.
Hi James, I am currently looking into re-starting my astro hobby (I used to have a - self built 15cm F/5 newton) and while binoculars are nice, I am looking [...] Read more »
