ASTRO: SATURN

Oops, I forgot to add "Astro"

I was messing around with trying to move my primary mirror in a little
because I have a 50 mm 2-inch meade lens that I've never been able to use
satisfactorily because I have to rack the focuser all the way in and it
still would not come onto full focus. it helped a little but I'm going to
have to mess around with it some more to get it moved in a little more.

So after I did that (I only managed to move it in about 1/4 inch) I
collimated the mirrors and decided to try my first image of saturn with the
Cannon 300d using a 17mm lens (EP projection). It came out better than I
expected, especially the colors, but it is just one shot, and the seeing
was horrid. Not bad for a first shot, though.

Saturn
Cannon 300d
2 sec
400 ASA
single shot

17mm EP projection
Konus 200

"George" wrote in message
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Oops, I forgot to add "Astro"

I was messing around with trying to move my primary mirror in a little
because I have a 50 mm 2-inch meade lens that I've never been able to use
satisfactorily because I have to rack the focuser all the way in and it
still would not come onto full focus. it helped a little but I'm going
to
have to mess around with it some more to get it moved in a little more.

So after I did that (I only managed to move it in about 1/4 inch) I
collimated the mirrors and decided to try my first image of saturn with
the
Cannon 300d using a 17mm lens (EP projection). It came out better than I
expected, especially the colors, but it is just one shot, and the seeing
was horrid. Not bad for a first shot, though.

Saturn
Cannon 300d
2 sec
400 ASA
single shot

17mm EP projection
Konus 200

Correction. I used a 10 mm, not a 17 mm EP.

George