Coolpix digital camera setup / Lunar observing session

I regularly get e-mails from people that want to know more about the
digital camera set-up I use. Today I have published an article in
my equipment section about the two cameras' I use(d) , the Nikon
Coolpix 4500 and the Nikon Coolpix 775. In the article you will
find a photo album containing 16 images in which you can see
how the Nikon Coolpix 4500 is connected to the telescope, using
digital camera adaptors from Vixen and ScopeTronix.
You will also find some links to some images and the digital_astro
yahoo group. Follow this link to read the full article:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/equipm...cessories.html

and choose "Digital camera Nikon Coolpix 775/4500

I also added a lunar observing session with digital pics from a
3-day-old crescent Moon to my solar system section. Before
getting out the telescope I enjoyed the Moon standing together
with Venus in the late afternoon. I shot a nice image of this even
t and included it in my observing log. Later that evening I got out
my telescope and observed the 3-day-old moon.

It was the first time ever I saw the Dorsae in Mare Crisium. The
features I observed that evening were Mare Humboldtianum,
Mare Marginis, Promontorium Agarum, Dorsa Harker, Dorsum
Termier, Messala, Dorsa Tetyaev, Germinus, Burckhardt,
Cleomedes, Langrenus, Gauss, Furnerius, Petavius, Vendelinus,
Palitzsch, Fraunhofer, Vegea and Peirescius.
They all can be identified on the big digital image I included in the
observing report. To read the full report and have a look at
the images, just follow this link:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/solar/.../20040223.html

Enjoy!

Math
http://www.backyard-astro.com

Hi Math,

Another very nice photo and a report that was fun to read.

Thanks!

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try the Lunar Observing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
Lunar Picture of the Day http://www.lpod.org/
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"orion94nl" wrote in message
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I regularly get e-mails from people that want to know more about the
digital camera set-up I use. Today I have published an article in
my equipment section about the two cameras' I use(d) , the Nikon
Coolpix 4500 and the Nikon Coolpix 775. In the article you will
find a photo album containing 16 images in which you can see
how the Nikon Coolpix 4500 is connected to the telescope, using
digital camera adaptors from Vixen and ScopeTronix.
You will also find some links to some images and the digital_astro
yahoo group. Follow this link to read the full article:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/equipm...cessories.html

and choose "Digital camera Nikon Coolpix 775/4500

I also added a lunar observing session with digital pics from a
3-day-old crescent Moon to my solar system section. Before
getting out the telescope I enjoyed the Moon standing together
with Venus in the late afternoon. I shot a nice image of this even
t and included it in my observing log. Later that evening I got out
my telescope and observed the 3-day-old moon.

It was the first time ever I saw the Dorsae in Mare Crisium. The
features I observed that evening were Mare Humboldtianum,
Mare Marginis, Promontorium Agarum, Dorsa Harker, Dorsum
Termier, Messala, Dorsa Tetyaev, Germinus, Burckhardt,
Cleomedes, Langrenus, Gauss, Furnerius, Petavius, Vendelinus,
Palitzsch, Fraunhofer, Vegea and Peirescius.
They all can be identified on the big digital image I included in the
observing report. To read the full report and have a look at
the images, just follow this link:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/solar/.../20040223.html

Enjoy!

Math
http://www.backyard-astro.com

In article , orion94nl
wrote:

I regularly get e-mails from people that want to know more about the
digital camera set-up I use. Today I have published an article in
my equipment section about the two cameras' I use(d) , the Nikon
Coolpix 4500 and the Nikon Coolpix 775. In the article you will
find a photo album containing 16 images in which you can see
how the Nikon Coolpix 4500 is connected to the telescope, using
digital camera adaptors from Vixen and ScopeTronix.
You will also find some links to some images and the digital_astro
yahoo group. Follow this link to read the full article:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/equipm...cessories.html

and choose "Digital camera Nikon Coolpix 775/4500

I also added a lunar observing session with digital pics from a
3-day-old crescent Moon to my solar system section. Before
getting out the telescope I enjoyed the Moon standing together
with Venus in the late afternoon. I shot a nice image of this even
t and included it in my observing log. Later that evening I got out
my telescope and observed the 3-day-old moon.

It was the first time ever I saw the Dorsae in Mare Crisium. The
features I observed that evening were Mare Humboldtianum,
Mare Marginis, Promontorium Agarum, Dorsa Harker, Dorsum
Termier, Messala, Dorsa Tetyaev, Germinus, Burckhardt,
Cleomedes, Langrenus, Gauss, Furnerius, Petavius, Vendelinus,
Palitzsch, Fraunhofer, Vegea and Peirescius.
They all can be identified on the big digital image I included in the
observing report. To read the full report and have a look at
the images, just follow this link:

http://www.backyard-astro.com/solar/.../20040223.html

Enjoy!

Math
http://www.backyard-astro.com


Cool Shots.

I took a similar images on (also using my Mac) on Feb 22 and Feb 24
and a few close up shots of Clavius and Copernicus on February 29th.

Check them out at :

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/AstroIndex.html

Milton Aupperle
www.outcastsoft.com

Hi Milton,

Beautiful detailed pics you have made from Clavius. You can see the
quality of a Mak telescope in your images of the moon. I hope to get
jupiter and saturn next. You got some nice pics of them as well.

Clear Skies,

Math
http://www.backyard-astro.com