The Moon (thread titles just don't get much simpler than this)

Pretty cool pictures Carbon!

 

nice shots.

now try that today with the sun.

 

YOU GOT ME CARBIE

I THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER WILLIAM H THREAD ABOUT LIFE OR LIVING ON THE MOON...

WHAT BRAND CAMERA IS IT, ITS GREAT

B

 

OMG I just got done looking at your new clothes thread and then this I had a mental picture of you in front of your mirror taking more pictures of yourself.


Good pics though.

 

I feared the same, but the sick boy inside of me MADE me view the thread.

*breathes a sigh of relief*

 

There must be a black Enzo on the moon then mate.

 

Brings back memories!!



http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17604

 

actually there is a yellow one on the sun. if he looks close enough, he'll see it.

 

Why do I hear Pink Floyd in my head right now?

 

Nice photos!

Here are a couple I took using my homemade telescope and holding the camera to the eyepiece.

The saturn shot came out pretty crappy becuase I had to blow it up and stack a few shots together using a program called registax.

Dom
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Dom, what are the details of your scope?

Dave

 

There is a wonderful gallery in Brooklyn NY that specializes in vintage astronomy photos. One of my partners, who just turned 60, is an astronomy buff, and i purchased a piece from this gallery for him. Here's an example:


The gallery is Howard Schickler.
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Hi David,

Not too exciting. It is basically a 4.5" dobsonian (newton) design. I wanted something that was reasonably light, and it was my first attemt at doing something like this. I figured that with a 4.5" scope, there wouldn't be too much of a monetary investment in case I screwed up.

In retrospect, if I had to do it all over, I would have gone with a 6" primary mirror instead. Probably wouldn't have been that much heavier, or costlier.

But, the neat part about it all was that my 4 y.o. daughter was very excited to help me make it, and that it actually worked. The views from it are really nice.

Dom
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Dom, nice scope. I find 4" dobs to be good for shooting pics of the moon. The next time I'm out with some buddies in my astronomy club, I'll try to take some pics through one of the 16" dobs.

Carbon - you can shoot the sun, but only with the right protection for your telescope/camera. I don't think I have any shots of the sun during the transit of Venus last summer, but I know I have some shots I took during one of the most recent eclipses (August '04?). Will post these shortly.

 

Out of curiosity, are there any hot girl in your neighborhood ? if yes , can you do the same trick

 

That's really nice!!!! I'm guessing that the last shot is of Saturn.

 

You can thank pollution for that. ...I think?