Jupiter taken 3/24/2016

The night was mostly clear skies and the atmosphere seemed stable. I used NexImage 5 webcam with a 2x Barlow.. The iCap software setting I used was 2x binning the gain was 14 and the exposure was set to 1/44. I then used AS2 and Registax 6 and Paintshop pro 7x.

Moon craters using 8inch telescope and webcam with 2x barlow

This image was taken on 2/16/2016 at 10:12:45pm in Peoria AZ from my backyard. I used my NexStar 8SE with NexImage 5 and 2x Barlow. The image was processed using AS2 and Registax 6 software.

Night Sky observing

Unknown to me my youngest daughter took a picture of me during my observing session. She is a pistol. ;) On this night I was able to view Jupiter and Galilean moons. Using a 2x barlow with my neximage 5 webcam I was able to take pictures of Jupiter and the Galilean moons, close ups of the moon and the Orion Nebula. Orion Nebula and the moon in the previous posts.

Mercury taken just after sunrise 2/12/2016

I was able to take a picture of Mercury just before sunrise. This is the last planet I needed to have all 7 planets.

Orion Nebula

This picture was taken on 2/12/2016 @ 11:59 pm. It was taken using a Celestron NexStar 8 SE telescope with the NexImage 5 Webcam. Never thought I would be able to do this with a unmodified webcam since all the Web forums say this is not possible. The night I took this picture seeing wss exelent and there were no clouds at all transparency was also excellent I'm sure if I was in a darker location and not near city lights this photo would have been a lot better. You really can do a lot with an 8 inch scope. I think this size scope is the sweet spot. Free applications are used to process was ist regi stacks and Paint Shop Pro 7.

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.