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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:45:19 +0000 (UTC), "Robert Geake"
wrote:

Hello All

A decent picture of the moon taken but a few moments ago, so
chuffed i thought i would put it up.

http://robert.thegeakes.co.uk/astro/latest.shtml

TTFN

Nicely done Robert - was this a single shot? What camera, scope, etc?
--
Pete
Homepage at http://www.pbl33.co.uk
CCD/digicam astronomy

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:28:10 +0000 (UTC), "Robert Geake"
wrote:

Cheers Pete


Camera:
Single shot(best of 10), Canon IXUS330 digital, ISO200, 1/160 Shutter.

Scope:
Full apeture Europa 250 on eq6. 20mm Russian(TAL) plossyl.

I use a peculiar camera adaptor. Its an orion finder scope mount, it fits
the
camera lens nicley and is adjustable via the 3 screw used to align the
finderscope. I have to zoom X2 to get a decent field. Seems strange that i
tried for month with a refractor to no avail. This is the first time i used
the
Europa for planetary photography and it works great.

Also did a few with a 12.5mm plossyl of Orion optics breed, they arent quite
so good though!

Was all of that information up there last night?! If so - sorry - I
jumped right to the main image and missed it. The missus has started
a 3 year midwifery course at the University of Surrey. As a
consequence she gets up a some unreasonable hour in the morning and,
consequently, I wake up then as well. Couple this with my normally
quite late nights and I'm rapidly becoming sleep deprived and making
all sorts of mistakes. Perhaps I'll have to give up astronomy.

That's a really nice shot for a single image.
--
Pete
Homepage at http://www.pbl33.co.uk
CCD/digicam astronomy