Ooo~ That's a brilliant shot!

Absolutly beautiful.

ya know, this goes great while listening to the soundtrack to "The Dark Knight".

FAV!

so soft adn dark!! its beuatimus

Very nice! You know what you's doin' with that depth of field! I set the camera outside and did 30 second shots via USB cable and all that, didn't get squat! :( Meh! Be sure to watch for the moonrise on the morning of the 18'th. It will be one of those amazing thin slivers like in this one. Great opportunity!

i wont take another crescent pic unless its thinner than this

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Yowza, so you got that one! I tried, failed, didn't have anything between the telescope and the 200mm zoom lens at that time so not really the proper equipment. I think a 600mm with a decent f-stop would be the thing, anyways, do not desire what you cannot have. :D

i achieved that shot of the moon and venus with a universal 500mm lens f/6.3 only cost 150something and came with T-ring adapter and a 2x teleconverter

Phew! Yep! That's definitely what you'd want. You've GOT to do some nice long sky exposures! I've also gotta pop the hood on this Meade and see how they did the polar mount, totally necessary of course for astro stuff. Note: I've just barely had the chance to play around with it. Dig... this far north there's really only a few hours of dark each night, from about 11:00 to 4:00 and that's it!

im still thinking about what type of telescope i should get...i can get fairly decent shots with a Dobsonian mount but i would enjoy the ability of long exposures with an equatorial mount...but there is just too much light pollution here for longer exposures unless i get a high magnification eyepiece or just spend a good chunk of cash on a SC telescope

Sorry for the long delay but I had a 'thing' going on. *lol* No substitute for an equatorial mount but from what I've seen the pricing for these things is way and FAR beyond their simplicity. Purely due to specificity of purpose of course. I've popped the hood on the one on the ETX-90 for a look but haven't gone further. I can't imagine it's anything more complicated than a 555 timer with R1 & R2 tuned for a proper duty cycle, hooked to an admittedly rare very low RPM DC motor. Anyways, more on that when I DO have a closer look.

awesome moon pic

thankies

your welcome Fen

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it would be my pleasure yukina

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