Mars early morning.

This is my first attempt taking a picture of Mars with my setup.

Jupiter with Ganymede shadow

This picture was taken Last night. You can see Jutiper and three of its moons. You can see the moon Ganymede shadow on Jupiter. Europa is next to Jupiter. And you can see Calistoga at the bottom left corner.

Moon and Jupiter

Took this picture with a Canon SX20IS on Tuesday 1/26/2016 from my backyard in Peoria AZ. Seeing conditions was very good.

Jupiter and Galilean moons 15 04 01 21 22 29

This is a link to a short YouTube of a video I took of Jupiter and the 4 Galilean moons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6akIOW0eQ

My First YouTube Space Video

Here is a link to my YouTube Channel of a video created of some of the pictures I took over the past year.
Images of Jupiter Saturn Moon Rigel

URANUS 9/7/2015

It was a very clear night, transparency was above average and seeing was 3/5.

Uranus and 1 of its moons on 8/20/2015

I took this using my 8se and nextimage 5. Captured using 2X bin.

Uranus taken 10/3/2015

Picture of Uranus was taken on a very good night.

Final of 4 Eclipse 9-27-2015

Here are two photo's of the Super Red Moon Eclipse. These photo's were take just before the full red mood.

The photo above was taken with a Celestron NexImage 8SE using the NexImage 5 webcam. It was process using AS2, Registac 6 and PaintShop Pro. X7.

This photo was take with Canon PowerShot SX20 IS and processed used PaintShop Pro. X7.

Neptune picture taken with NexStar 8SE and NexImage 5

These 2 pictures are of Neptune. The image on the top was created by processing one 2 minute video. The picture on the bottom was created by combining 12 15 second videos. Neptune will be close to the earth on Sept. 1st.

Moon craters 5/25/2015

This was taken with my cell phone, 32mm eyepiece and 2X Barlow.

Saturn at Opposition 05/23/2015

It was a clear night and I could see many objects to bad I don't have the camera needed to photograph galaxies but Saturn came out great. I took a few 2 minute videos and stacked the best frames and the result is what you see here. Not bad for an 8 inch telescope.

Saturn a few days before Opposition

It was a beautiful Arizona Monday night (5/18/2015) and its the New Moon it is located on the same side of the Earth as the Sun and will not be visible in the night sky. So I decided to take a crack at Saturn before its at Opposition on Saturday May 23rd. Tonight the wind variable to 10 mph, seeing was very good and it was after 9pm so it was dark enough to see faint objects also. I took a look at my first Galaxy which was M67. It is a cluster and it was a perfect night to see it. I'm going to try and take a video of it with my Canon SX20 IS next time. As for Saturn I was able to take a really nice shot with the NexImage 5 web cam. If you want to leave leave comments please do so.

Moon craters

Close-up of Moon craters taken with my telescope on 4/27/2015

Venus 5/7/2015

This shot of Venus was taken on 5/7/2015 with a NexStar 8SE and NexImage 5 and iCap software. I processed the image using AS!2, RegiStax 6.1 and Corel PaintShop Pro 7.  It was very windy so I was lucky to get this photo.

Venus just before setting for the night

This photo was taken Monday 4/27/2015 with NexStar 8SE using NexImage 5 camera.

Blood Moon Close-up

This was taken with a NexStar 8SE using NexImage 5 during the Blood Moon on 4/4/2015.

Blood Moon 4/4/2015

This photo was taken Saturday morning. The full moon nearly always appears coppery red during a total lunar eclipse. That’s because the dispersed light from all the Earth’s sunrises and sunsets falls on the face of the moon at mid-eclipse. Thus the term blood moon can be and probably is applied to any and all total lunar eclipses.

Jupiter's Galilean Moons

I took this photo using the NexStar 8SE telescope along with the NexImage 5. The software used was iCap and I configured it to use 4x binning. Using 4x binning gives a larger capture view when recording the video. The photo shows all 4 Galilean Moons. The moons starting out from Jupiter are Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and IO. Galileo Galilei discovered the moons in 1610 and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun.

Jupiter's Moons locator chart
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/observing-tools/jupiter_moons/jupiter.html

Saturn

This photo was taken just before dawn. I used the NexImage 5 webcam with NexStar 8SE. The video I processed was only 20 seconds.