Awesome eclipse coming

Pirate Bill · 02-20-2008, 10:30 PM

We did indeed have a perfectly cloudless sky. It was awesome!

I got the telescope out and tried a little astrophotography for the first time. (By that I mean I held my little point-and-shoot up to the telescope's eyepiece and took some pictures.) Here are the better ones.

Eclipse totality:

Almost half-way out of the eclipse:

Then someone mentioned that Saturn was up there too so I pointed the camera at what I guessed to be Saturn and sure 'nuff. There it was! It was my first time seeing it through my telescope so I was pretty excited about that. I tried taking pictures of it but my hand wasn't steady enough for that. I need to get something I can use to mount my camera to the telescope if I want to pursue this astrophotography thing any further.

We had a large-ish group together to look through the telescope.

Fun night!

02-20-2008, 10:30 PM	#20
Pirate Bill Quality since 1973 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 473	We did indeed have a perfectly cloudless sky. It was awesome! I got the telescope out and tried a little astrophotography for the first time. (By that I mean I held my little point-and-shoot up to the telescope's eyepiece and took some pictures.) Here are the better ones. Eclipse totality: Almost half-way out of the eclipse: Then someone mentioned that Saturn was up there too so I pointed the camera at what I guessed to be Saturn and sure 'nuff. There it was! It was my first time seeing it through my telescope so I was pretty excited about that. I tried taking pictures of it but my hand wasn't steady enough for that. I need to get something I can use to mount my camera to the telescope if I want to pursue this astrophotography thing any further. We had a large-ish group together to look through the telescope. Fun night! Last edited by Pirate Bill : 02-20-2008 at 10:36 PM.
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