On Tuesday evening I was blessed with clear skies and lugged my Meade
ETX 125EC outside and got going. I've got AutoStar and had it
tracking Saturn and Jupiter.

After selecting a 15mm eyepiece and putting it in an Orion SteadyPix I
attached my old Nikon CoolPix 800, set focus to infinity, disabled
flash and learned a little about adjusting for the added masse of the
camera. I took several exposures using the timed shutter release, but
I'm a bit unimpressed with the results.

This was the best of the lot.

http://www.dragonswest.com/jupiter.jpg


The CoolPix 800 doesn't appear to allow for manual shutterspeed
setting. Any suggestions for cutting back on the light?