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GUEST LUNAR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 13 April 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: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [13 Apr 06]
The Moon was taken using my etx 125 and a sony cybershot mounted to a 40mm lens and a Moon filter. cleaned up in photoshop

Submitted by: Frantisek Kundracik (Frantisek.Kundracik@fmph.uniba.sk) [13 Apr 06]
please find attached two photos of the Moon taken on 7th April using ETX-70AT. Details: "Whole" Moon: Single shot using digital camera Canon Powershot A510 placed behind MA 12mm eyepiece. Clavius and Tycho: 300 pictures 640x480 in 30s AVI-videosequence taken with the same camera placed behind 4mm othoscopic eyepiece. Stacked and processed in Registax. Not so bad for such small scope :-)

Submitted by: Howard Fink (howardfink@gmail.com) [9 Apr 06]
Clavius is below center right with five craters of descending size in an arc. Easily half an arcsecond resolution. Taken the evening of January 8, 2006. 1000 frames at 1/100 sec F/15 125mm telescope prime focus Stacked with Registax using drizzle.

Taken Thursday night, April 6. F/30, this is cropped and enlarged. Oversharpened to get a inkling of craters on the plain, and the shadows. ETX-125, toucan pro, IR filter. 1/25 sec, about 200 frames.

f/38, f/30, f/15, f/9, f/5 of the area around Rheita Valles and Janssen. ETX-125, edmund RKE 2.5x barlow, Pro Optic 2x barlow, Steve Mogg .63 Focal reducer and .33 extension, Scopetronix IR Blocker, Toucam Pro.

Submitted by: Mathew Pedersen (cheesemanx@hotmail.com) [9 Apr 06]
I took this picture last night during my first night with a meade LPI (very easy to use) and an ETX-60 Backpack edition. I dont know if it is up to your standards but if it is could you please post it. Thanks The ETX-60 BB was a Wal-mart only thing (their price tag was printed directly on the box). It is a great scope for a college kid like me who cant afford much else and who has no space.

Submitted by: James Jefferson-Wilson James (james.jefferson@bbc.co.uk) [9 Apr 06]
Please find image of the Moon Crater Maurolycus ETX 125 AT, Nikon 4300 Digital Camera.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [5 Apr 06]
here are a few photos of our new Moon. They were taken with my 125etx and a sony cybershot mounted with to a scopetronix digi-t system and a 40mm lens and a IR filter. These photos were taken in auto night Mode. Run through noiseware and photoshop.

Submitted by: Jen Cotton (jcotton@brandeis.edu) [5 Apr 06]
Single frame taken with a Canon Powershot400 held up to eyepiece on my ETX-90AT. 10:30 pm April 2nd from Waltham, MA.

Submitted by: Dieter.Wolf@DNSint.com [30 Mar 06]
please find attached a photo of the 'Aristarchus - Herodotus - Vallis Schroeter' region of 12 day old moon. This is from an observing night last month (just found the time to do the digital work on it) Aristarchus, the brightest spot on the moon, 40 km in diameter, deep and with a central mountain, can even be seen with the naked eye because of its brightness/contrast. (ETX-70AT mosaic)

Neighboring Herodotus is much more dark because its filled with lava. This lava once formed the 160km long and between 10 and 6km broad Vallis Schroeter. (MEADE ETX-125EC with 3x barlow lense; PHILIPS ToUCam pro at prime focus; 200 out of 350 frames)

Good old moon - always worth to look at...

Submitted by: Reid McCall (Reid.McCall@delwebb.com) [16 Mar 06]
This is my first shot at Astrophotography. Taken with a year 2000 ETX 125EC, recently supercharged by Dr. Sherrod. Camera is DSI Pro II with IR filter. Picture is 50 shots at 100 seconds total.

Submitted by: Rob Sanders (r.sanders20@chello.nl) [8 Mar 06]
This is my first moon image. I made it with my ETX-70 AT with a 3x barlow and a bresser PC-Oculair. I used registax to stack 591 framesin order to create this image. The ETX-70 AT was sold ata large store througout my country a few months back, not much images from the etx-70 can be found on the net. I hope u place mine on your site so other etx-70 users in my country (The Netherlands) can see what to expect from astrofotography with this nice little scope. I like your website keep up the good work.

Submitted by: jbfe (jbfe@wanadoo.fr) [3 Mar 06]
01 Mars 2006, the moon with Fuji E 500 (4 megapixel) digital camera, Meade ETX-125mm with a 32mm eyepiece, from France