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Under the sun... Well since you brought it up. ;)

This is a full disk solar image taken through a Celestron 8 (80" 2032 mm efl.) telescope, 1/125 sec. exposure and full aperture solar filter. I couldn't pass up shooting the sunspots.



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Jim
 
Well here's one thru a Celestron C-8 tonight (2,000mm f/10, equivalent to 4,000mm on Four-Thirds mount) - E-300, ISO-200, 1/400sec then stretched the contrast.

 
I still haven't been able to get out and take a moon shot, but I recalled that I did do this last month. So here is a C7070 moon shot. The camera was afocally mounted to a 1000mm f/10 Rubinar lens using a TeleVue 32mm Plossl eyepiece.

The C7070 is an excellent to very good camera for afocal coupling.

The linked image is 1/4 rez, but you can find half and full-rez image here:
http://www.jayandwanda.com/afocal/jay/



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Jay Turberville
http://www.jayandwanda.com
 
Cool. You guys with telescopes have the edge!!! This one worked out real well!

David

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Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

 
What a solid piece of forum work. I have not been able to get a moon shot nothing but wall to wall clouds for us unfortunately...

There are some amazing photographs in this post.

Fantastic!!
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Davew
 
Great work. The full size are like looking at a map of the moon. Too cool!

David

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Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

 
Where have you been hiding my friend?

Sorry to hear about the clouds. We were fortunate to have a break after 5 days of rain and catch the full moon and now we are back to several more days of rain. I can relate! LOL

Yes, there are some great shots and great info. Now to find a telescope! :)

Thanks for dropping in!
David
dwit1 said:
What a solid piece of forum work. I have not been able to get a
moon shot nothing but wall to wall clouds for us unfortunately...

There are some amazing photographs in this post.

Fantastic!!
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Davew
Click to expand...
 
...But I have of a stone ball outside the Lockhart, Texas, public library while I was waiting for my truck to be serviced.



Sorry about that Drummer, and my apologies to everyone else. I just couldn't resist.

--John C.
 
I love to see the moon against the blue sky. It is a beautiful sight! Thanks for posting this one Pat. It rounds out this set of pictures nicely.

David

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Hope you enjoy and comments welcome,
Drummer (AKA Sticks, David)
FCAS Member #122, Oly Div.
C8080WZ, Canon 250D
C2100UZ & Tcon 1.7
http://www.pbase.com/bluesfish
'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.'

 
John, How did you get a picture of Jupiter's moon Io. That must be some piece of glass you have.

Thanks for this one. It gave me a wondeful laugh on a rather boring, rainy autumn night.

David
 
That is a really nice handheld shot WH. Thanks for posting. If the rain clears I might get a few more before it's gone.

Keep shooting the moon!

David
 
Jay Turberville said:
recalled that I did do this last month. So here is a C7070 moon
shot. The camera was afocally mounted to a 1000mm f/10 Rubinar
lens using a TeleVue 32mm Plossl eyepiece.
Click to expand...
Jay - excellent shot! Wondering how you coupled the 7070 to the scope; are u using TeleVue's adapter (iirc works only with some of their eyepieces) or some other mount? fwiw I have a lens tube adapter on my 7070 with 55mm threaded front (can be stepped down of course), and have been looking to get it to mount on a tele-extender (M42 T-thread) - or some other less cumbersome way to mount it afocally.
 
What you need is a T-Mount to filter thread adapter ring. Mine is a T> 52mm for the 5060. I'm sure T> 55mm will be just as easily available. This enables you to shoot afocal through the telescope eyepiece using a standard T-Mount camera to telescope adapter. My submission above was not taken using such a ring. The camera was on a bracket and looking through the eyepiece. It was however, what prompted me to get one.....!
 
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