M31 from the deep south

I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North, it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of the
fine detail.

Wally, what kind of gear do you have for that?
BP

"Wally Anglesea" wrote in message
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I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished
observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North, it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of the
fine detail.

"BP" wrote in message
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Wally, what kind of gear do you have for that?

My little Meade 105 :-)
Pictures he
http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese...Astronomy.html






"Wally Anglesea" wrote in
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I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished
observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North,
it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of the
fine detail.

I had a 5" celestron until some crack junkie broke into my house. Boy do I
miss it. I am saving my pennies from my paper route for an 8 or 10" Meade.

That is a great little set up you got there. I have an old Canon A-1 that I
do not use much for normal photos. I was considering mounting that on a
scope much in the same manner. I also have a 4.1 Megapixel camera. I
understand that they are making adapters for those now. Do you have good
luck with the digital?

The sun pics are very nice. I bet if you send those to some of the
characters here, they may be able to prove life on the sun.

BP

"Wally Anglesea" wrote in message
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"BP" wrote in message
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Wally, what kind of gear do you have for that?

My little Meade 105 :-)
Pictures he
http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese...Astronomy.html






"Wally Anglesea" wrote in
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I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished
observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North,
it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of
the
fine detail.

"BP" wrote in message
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I had a 5" celestron until some crack junkie broke into my house. Boy do I
miss it. I am saving my pennies from my paper route for an 8 or 10"
Meade.

Ouch!



That is a great little set up you got there. I have an old Canon A-1 that
I
do not use much for normal photos. I was considering mounting that on a
scope much in the same manner. I also have a 4.1 Megapixel camera. I
understand that they are making adapters for those now. Do you have good
luck with the digital?

Thanks for the comments. I started with the digital to see if I could get
decent pics, and I was surprised and pleased to find I did.
The Kodak DX series has an adapter thread at the lens, which takes a Kodak
adapter. I connected a Televue Eyepiece adapter to that, and so I can mount
the digital camera straight to the eyepiece.

I'm looking agt a new Kodak (because I have all the adapters for it) which
is 6 megapixels, and it can take 60 second exposures. At a trade show, I got
the guy demoing it to put it in a black bag, and do a 60 second exposure.
There were no hot pixels in the reulting image, and I had to enhance thew
wazoo out of it to get any hot pixels. So that's promising.

However, I've also been looking at the new Meade Deep Space Imager (DSI). If
I can convince my wife, I'll get both. :-)



The sun pics are very nice. I bet if you send those to some of the
characters here, they may be able to prove life on the sun.

Two people emailed me and asked how I could take photographs of the sun
during the day, when it was so bright. Seriously



BP

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"BP" wrote in message
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Wally, what kind of gear do you have for that?

My little Meade 105 :-)
Pictures he
http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese...Astronomy.html






"Wally Anglesea" wrote in
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I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished
observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North,
it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of
the
fine detail.

I bought 10" dob and took it out for a spin the other night, actually it
was my first telecoping night with anything. I searched and searched
around the left of the "great square", and finally found a smudge of light.
M31! This was the core of the core I assume. This was in light polluted
Scottsdale AZ. I can hardly wait to see it in the country side. They say
it just takes some binoculars.
-Tom

"Wally Anglesea" wrote in message
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I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished
observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North, it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of the
fine detail.


Dear Wally
I have seen M31 with the naked eye from home in November. Admittedly I am a
bit further north and have much darker skies than Sydney.


Terry Bohlsen
Moree
NSW

"Terry Bohlsen" wrote in message
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"Wally Anglesea" wrote in
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I just wanted to say, I'm outside, it's cold, and I just finished
observing
M31. Since I'm at about 35 degrees south, and Sydney is in the North,
it's
quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of the
fine detail.


Dear Wally
I have seen M31 with the naked eye from home in November. Admittedly I am
a
bit further north and have much darker skies than Sydney.


Terry Bohlsen
Moree

Yeah, well Moree also has a much better northern sky :-)
I saw it naked eye from Parkes in July (at 3.30 am and about minus 5 degrees
Celsius. Kind of surprising you can see it this far south isn't it?

quite an achievement for me :-)
Furthest south I've seen it.

The air was quite clear and still, but the sky glow wiped out most of
the
fine detail.


Dear Wally
I have seen M31 with the naked eye from home in November. Admittedly I
am
a
bit further north and have much darker skies than Sydney.


Terry Bohlsen
Moree

Yeah, well Moree also has a much better northern sky :-)
I saw it naked eye from Parkes in July (at 3.30 am and about minus 5
degrees
Celsius. Kind of surprising you can see it this far south isn't it?


We are 29.5 deg south which means it will be about 5 deg higher here than in
Sydney. I think the important things are dark skies, good dark adaption and
a clear northern horizon all of which apply here in the bush.


--
Terry B
Moree
Australia