Weasner's Meade ETX Guest Gallery

GUEST LUNAR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 14 February 2006

Many ETX users have sent examples of their astrophotography. If you have some examples you would like included here please send me a description of how you made the astrophotos and a copy of the images as GIF or JPEG files (due to internet email gateway issues, please send only one image file per message). Send to etx@me.com. Alternatively, if you have created your own web page with your examples please let me know and I'll include a link to your site.

Submitted by: C.A.Warburton (C.A.Warburton@lboro.ac.uk) [14 Feb 06]
I've attached a couple of images from my last observing session. These are Stacked images taken with a Toucam 840k last week through my ETX-90 ec. I set it up on my home made equatorial wedge. The first shot is of the crater Copernicus and is a stack of 458 frames at 640 x 480 pixels. The second shot is of Plato and is a stack of 950 frames. I used for both a 2x Apo Barlow lens and an IR filter. An interesting feature of the image of Plato is what appears to be craterlets just visible on Plato's floor, no small feat for a 90mm scope!

Submitted by: jbfe (jbfe@wanadoo.fr) [14 Feb 06]
The moon (27 hours after the new moon), 30 january 2006, with a 4mp digital camera from Dijon, France

Submitted by: jbfe (jbfe@wanadoo.fr) [10 Feb 06]
10 february 2006, the moon with a 4mp digital camera, Meade ETX-125 with a 20mm eyepiece, from Dijon, France Website: http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/obas

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [10 Feb 06]
Here is a photo of our Moon from my home in Washington Pa. at 7:00pm tonight. It was taken with my ext 125, a sony cybershot camera mounted to a scopetronix digi - system with a 40mm lens and a IR filter. Photo was taken in night auto mode.

Here is our Moon from this evening. Photo taken with my etx 125 and a sony cybershot 7.2 digital, mounted to a digi-t-system and a IR filter.

Submitted by: Howard Fink (howardfink@gmail.com) [6 Feb 06]
Toucam Pro with .3 Focal reducer for f/4.5 with ETX-125. 1600 frames shot with IR Filter at 1/500 sec, 10 frames per second. Used hand controller to scan the (nearly) entire lit area of the moon. K3CCD to capture and convert to bitmaps. Registax to make four images. Photoshopped, then Autostich.net to assemble. Shot Friday, February 3, 2006 at 8:42pm.

Submitted by: jbfe (jbfe@wanadoo.fr) [3 Feb 06]
The Moon with Fuji E 500 (4 megapixel) digital camera, Meade ETX-125 with a 32mm eyepiece from Dijon, France

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [3 Feb 06]
Here is a photo of our Moon from tonight. Taken with a sony cyber digital camera a scopetronix digi t system and a 40mm len with a IR filter and my etx 125. Photo was taken in auto mode cleaned up in photoshop,

Submitted by: Mark Mathosian (mmathosian@comcast.net) [23 Jan 06]
Here is a nice shot from about 6:00 am this morning through my ETX 90 and a Sony digital camera.

A nice close up of craters and lunar sea.

Submitted by: Amit goutamas (amit191087@yahoo.com) [23 Jan 06]
Meade ETX-90, Modified 26mm Eyepiece, Cannon PowerShot A-400. From Bangalore,India.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [23 Jan 06]
Here is a photo that I took around 1am. This photo was taken using my etx 125 and a sony cyber shot mounted to a scopetronix digi - t - system and a 40mm len with a IR filter. The photo was taken in auto mode and cleaned up in adobe photoshop.

Submitted by: David Hobson (davidhobson@utvinternet.co.uk) [15 Jan 06]
Here is my first attempt at astrophotography on my etx 70 with 25mm eyepiece and 3x Barlow. Sony Cybershot DSC P120 hand held at the eyepiece on a very cold night. Some zoom applied to fill the picture and contrast and brightness altered with HP photosmart software. If good enough, put it on the site.

Submitted by: Howard Fink (howardfink@gmail.com) [11 Jan 06]
January 9, 2006 11:30pm Iridium f/30 1/500 sec exposure toucam 740k processed in registax Check out the shadow of laplace promontory. (3005 meter height) http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac24/ Plato f/15 ditto http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac12/ Clavius f/15 ditto ETX 125

Submitted by: jbfe (jbfe@wanadoo.fr) [11 Jan 06]
Clavius, Fuji E 500 (4 megapixel) digital camera, Meade ETX-125 with a 12.5 eyepiece; from Dijon, France

Submitted by: Lubomir Janotiak, ml (lubomir.janostiak.ml@zoznam.sk) [7 Jan 06]

Submitted by: James Jefferson-Wilson James (james.jefferson@bbc.co.uk) [4 Jan 06]
Please find image of Moon Crater Moretus and a reprocessed image of Copernicus. All info on the page :-)