I am thinking of buying some Cameras for general and astro use, with the possibility I can offer them to astronomers too.. Which ones do people think are the...

Happy new year everyone all the best for 2007 Clear Skies to you all Andy Mr Andrew R Green B.Sc(Hons) FRAS StarDome Planetarium - Your Window On The...

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Hi group Anyone any ideas on a good digital for astronomy work? I also want something with 6x-10x optical zoom for aviation photography too. I have an old...

Anyone used 1 for astro imaging????

I was attempting to image Mars for the first time a few days ago using an 8" LX90 with the Meade LPI camera. I had the telescope set up for 4 or 5 hours before...

Hi, I took this photo tonight (approx 20 minutes ago) of the ISS passing over. I was using a standard digital camera - nothing high...

Hi, I was observing Saturn last night between 8:30 and 9:30 GMT using my 8" SCT (LX90) and I was hoping to see the Cassini division. According to several...

Hi, Merry Christmas everyone! I got some AE collimation knobs for my LX90 for Christmas but I'm not sure which screws to replace. The secondary mirror...

I'm quite pleased with this single shot image (afocal projection) of the moon last night. http://www.andygrove.ws/2005/12/moon-tonight.html

I'm surprised I haven't seen more about this on the news / web. I heard about it from a friend last night. This is news footage from an Australian TV...

My best effort so far at a complete lunar image. I took 111 images over a 4 minute period starting at midnight on the 16th and then rotated and stacked them in...

Tonight I tried a low-tech astrophotography technique that I've read about recently. Basically you hold a digital camera close to the eyepiece of the telescope...

Hi, I made my first attempt at imaging the moon tonight using my 8" Meade LX90 and the Meade LPI that shipped with it. The results are far from perfect but...

When I first started out with my LX90 in the summer it always used named stars to perform the auto alignment e.g. it might have chosen Vega and Altair as...

Hi, I got some great advice here a month or two ago about imaging the moon. I'm using an 8" LX90 with an LPI. Here are my latest attempts. There is a marked...

Hi all, I've just got home from my parents house and while I was there (around 17:00) I showed them what I thought was Venus very bright in the S or SW sky....

I finally got a good look at Mars tonight. I could make out some surface detail and I could see two moons (Phobos and Deimos as far as I can tell) so I was...

Hi, Trying to image Mars tonight and my laptop for some reason is asking for the LPI driver CD. Naturally, I can't actually find the CD right now and I can't...

I've seen a few photos, particularly the moon, that are made up of a number of individual images. I'd like to give this a go but I'm not sure where to start....