Took a couple of quick shots of Jupiter this morning. Focus could be better, but I didn’t use the computer. Just focused with the little screen on the camera. It’s a little cloudy down here in St. George and I was lucky to get these photos. Maybe next weekend will be better. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to shoot anything tomorrow morning. The weather is supposed to be worse. http://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/sets/72157631479832892/
Beautiful! Well done. What is the setup? I see Nikon E4500 in the EXIF data - is this done with eyepiece projection? If so, that's very well done! I've never seen stripes on Jupiter by holding my digital camera up to the eyepiece. Dion ________________________________ From: Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 7:20 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Jupiter: 9 September 2012 ~ 06:00 MDT Took a couple of quick shots of Jupiter this morning. Focus could be better, but I didn’t use the computer. Just focused with the little screen on the camera. It’s a little cloudy down here in St. George and I was lucky to get these photos. Maybe next weekend will be better. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to shoot anything tomorrow morning. The weather is supposed to be worse. http://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/sets/72157631479832892/ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
Dion, I used a Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera with an adapter that allows me to screw any 1.25” telescope eyepiece directly to the camera. I then insert the whole she-bang into the William Optics dielectric diagonal and shoot. Joe has told me time and again to bag the diagonal, but that would require a modicum of effort so, of course, I don’t heed his advise. I achieve approximate focus by viewing through the lens as you would, normally, through the scope (glasses on, of course). I then take out the lens, screw it on the camera, reinsert it into the diagonal (hoping focus is close enough), then shoot. I use a bulb on the camera to decrease vibration. Also, I can hook the camera via an AV connection to my computer and look at an enlarged image of what the camera sees through the scope. This, usually, allows me to tweak the focus. However, I did not do this for this morning’s run (refer to “effort” statement above). I just looked at the camera’s little screen (squinting real hard) and took the pictures. Some of them were spectacularly bad. I posted the best I could find in the stack of about 30 images that I took. Venus was so bloated and out-of-focus that I couldn’t tell what it was and I took the picture. This is why I am, for all practical purposes (and many more besides), a visual observer for the most part. Dave On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com> wrote:
Beautiful! Well done. What is the setup? I see Nikon E4500 in the EXIF data - is this done with eyepiece projection? If so, that's very well done! I've never seen stripes on Jupiter by holding my digital camera up to the eyepiece. Dion
________________________________ From: Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 7:20 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Jupiter: 9 September 2012 ~ 06:00 MDT
Took a couple of quick shots of Jupiter this morning. Focus could be better, but I didn’t use the computer. Just focused with the little screen on the camera. It’s a little cloudy down here in St. George and I was lucky to get these photos. Maybe next weekend will be better. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to shoot anything tomorrow morning. The weather is supposed to be worse.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/sets/72157631479832892/
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Very nice, Dave. 73, lh On 9/9/2012 7:20 AM, Dave Gary wrote:
Took a couple of quick shots of Jupiter this morning. Focus could be better, but I didn’t use the computer. Just focused with the little screen on the camera. It’s a little cloudy down here in St. George and I was lucky to get these photos. Maybe next weekend will be better. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to shoot anything tomorrow morning. The weather is supposed to be worse.
Thanks, Larry. With some practice I hope to get better. Sometimes that’s not the case….basketball comes to mind. On Sep 9, 2012, at 9:52 PM, Larry Holmes <larry@kijoda.com> wrote:
Very nice, Dave. 73, lh
On 9/9/2012 7:20 AM, Dave Gary wrote:
Took a couple of quick shots of Jupiter this morning. Focus could be better, but I didn’t use the computer. Just focused with the little screen on the camera. It’s a little cloudy down here in St. George and I was lucky to get these photos. Maybe next weekend will be better. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to shoot anything tomorrow morning. The weather is supposed to be worse.
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