Our Telescope

Moon

We got a Clestron 114EQ for Christmas.

File Name IMG_2757.JPG
Camera Model Name Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL
Shooting Date/Time 26/12/2004 19:52:20
Shooting Mode Manual
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/160
Av( Aperture Value ) 11
Metering Mode Center-weighted averaging
ISO Speed 200
Lens 75.0 - 300.0 mm
Focal Length 205.0 mm
Image Size 3072x2048
File Size 499KB
File Number 127-2757

If we had some less cloudy evenings we could do more!

Our first photographs are of the moon taken with a camera on a tripod because we haven't got a motor on the telescope yet. We are going to try attaching the camera to the eyepiece next.

The Eclipse of the Moon

So far we have looked at Saturn, its rings and some of its moons. We have also looked at the moon. On high magnification we could see the irregular edge of the moon and some craters.
File Name IMG_2780.JPG
Camera Model Name Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL
Shooting Date/Time 30/12/2004 19:49:19
Shooting Mode Manual
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/4
Metering Mode Center-weighted averaging
ISO Speed 200
Image Size 3072x2048
Image Quality Fine

File Size 566KB

Our first pictures of Saturn are not very good with the telescope.We couldn't get the exposure right and we were getting lots of camera shake because of the wind. Focusing was very hard. This was using a T2 adaptor into the telescope.

Wednesday 11th Jan 2005

Wednesday 11th Jan - using Phil's Nextstar 80 refractor with goto on it.

Our pictures af Mars weren't very good. We are going to have to motorise the telescope.