Weasner's Meade ETX Guest Gallery

GUEST LUNAR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 30 April 2007

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: miguelclaro@sapo.pt [30 Apr 07]
I would like to share with you my last astrophotography: Earthshine, with only one day. Equipment: HP Photosmart 850. Auto mode. 18/04/07 at 21h00. Local time from Portugal. The moon was only with one day. Image was taken from "Corroios" - In Portugal. I send the link to the image: http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/Earthshine180407-net.jpg Title and Description: Lunar Mosaic. The mosaic was composed for two images 640x480. For Each image was made one stack of 700 frames. Equipment: ETX90 + T.Cam Pro + 0.5x Focal Reducer. I send the link to the image: http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/Moonmosaic250407-net.jpg I hope that you enjoy it.
Submitted by: Howard Fink (howardfink@gmail.com) [25 Apr 07]
ETX 125 with a toucam pro at prime focus, f/15. 576 frames, five alignment points in photoshop, very little sharpening. Left the color as it came from the webcam with an IR filter. 40.8 N 74 W April 21 was the finest night for taking pictures of the moon in two years.

Submitted by: User721401@aol.com [21 Apr 07]
crescent moon

Submitted by: Jarrett S (jarrettsde3@yahoo.com) [17 Apr 07]
My first attempt at Lunar photography. I used a etx-60at with a meade DSI.

Submitted by: Ralph Smyth (ralph.smyth@ntlworld.com) [27 Mar 07]
Please find attached images taken of the 5.5 day old moon. The images were taken using a polar aligned Meade ETX-105PE, Sony DSC W5 digital stills camera and a Scopetronix DigiT adaptor. I am very very pleased with the results and, hopefully, they are good enough to be included on your website.

Submitted by: ughbug@adelphia.net [23 Mar 07]
Even though I've "graduated" to an LX90, I still get out the ETX-70 once in awhile. Tonight, the Moon was but a sliver. I hope you enjoy this and that it's good enough for the gallery.

Submitted by: Maurice Collins (mjscollins@clear.net.nz) [11 Mar 07]
Here is an image I took this morning, Sunday March 11 at 7:11am NZDT (March 10 1811UT) of the Moon showing the favorable libration of Mare Imbrium. Taken with ETX-90/RA, 25mm UO Ortho and 2mp Oregon Scientific digital camera.

Submitted by: Dieter.Wolf@DNSint.com [28 Feb 07]
read your last OO report: what an impressive night; not only the sky experiences, but nature too - great! Here in citylike surrounding I caught the cloesup of Moon and Plejades on February 23rd, 2007. Late in the night / early the next morning the Moon would have occulted some stars but as seeing conditions got more and more foggy I decided close at 22:30 CET. Setup on a tripod the Plejades already smeared at 1s exposure time combined with an image of 1/160s for the moon.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [28 Feb 07]
ere is our Moon on 2 23 07. Taken from my home in Washington Pa. These two mosaic's are final photos from 10 sec avi's. Taken with my etx 125 and a sac 7 ccd. Both were processed in registax3 and cleaned in up in photoshop 9.0, photofilter and noiseware.

Submitted by: Renee Ann Wirick (reneeannwirick@yahoo.com) [5 Feb 07]
Here is one for any gallery you choose to put it in, I took this last night in Thetford, Norfolk, UK. It is a combination of two shots, one overexposed to bring out Saturn and one underexposed to bring out moon details, combined, brightness/contrast adjusted, sharpened and despeckled in Photoshop. It was taken with a Kodak D6490 on a tripod. It is my first attempt at something like this and I found it rather pleasing.

Submitted by: Maurice Collins (mjscollins@clear.net.nz) [5 Feb 07]
I took a series of images with my ETX-90/RA and 9mm eyepiece on 2006 December 30 at 0950UT and used a program called "Autostitch" to automatically make this mosaic of the Moon.

Here is a mosaic of the Southern highlands taken with my ETX-90/RA, on 2006 December 29 at 0730UT. The sun was still in the early evening summer sky here, hence the blue background sky.

This was my first attempt at doing a mosaic from images. They were taken on 2006 December 6 at 1135UT with the ETX-90 and 9mm eyepiece.

Submitted by: Mark Emery (mark.emery@lineone.net) [26 Jan 07]
For your enjoyment, I have attached a picture that I took of the moon this evening (feel free to use it the gallery if you wish), taken with a Nikon Coolpix L3, mounted over a 32mm SP with moon filter, my first picture of the Moon through my ETX125, im well chuffed with the result.