Lunar 7 - Moon Sandwich

I didn't realise it before but the images I stitched together make great photos themselves.
With a little extra sharpening and for your enjoyment, here they are;

OTA: 120mm Achromatic Refractor

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

Mount: CG-4 mount

Exposures: 12

Exposure: 1/30sec approx

ISO: 100

OTA: 120mm Achromatic Refractor

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

Mount: CG-4 mount

Exposures: 12

Exposure: 1/30sec approx

ISO: 100

I've got to say, although Registax is dealing with much of the chromatic aberration, I'm getting some very nice results with my Celestron achromat. I've got to big up the William Optics focuser too, of course.

Lunar 6 - Success with Registax 6

I think I've finally made my peace with Registax 6 and I'm getting some decent results! Had really great seeing conditions in Cork last night and thanks to my new WO crayford on my scope I could finally get things in amazing focus.

This image is a mozaic of two stacked AVI videos at around four seconds each. Stacked in Registax and stitched together and colour corrected in Photoshop.

OTA: 120mm Achromatic Refractor

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

Mount: CG-4 mount

Exposures: 24

Exposure: 1/30sec approx

ISO: 100

Lunar 5 - Half-ish Waxing Gibbous Moon

Here's a single frame from my Nikon D3100 on prime focus. Nice result for single frame I thought.

OTA: 120mm Achromatic Refractor

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

Mount: CG-4 mount

Exposures: 1

Exposure: 1/30sec approx

ISO: 100

Standby for some satcking!

Lunar 2 - The Moon, again

After finally getting my hands on my new DLSR, a Nikon D3100, I was excited to see the difference between the photo I had taken through the eye piece of my telescope with my phone, and one taken with my new camera through prime focus photography. This means attaching the camera directly to the telescope using an adapter.

Here is the result:

OTA: 120mm Achromatic Refractor

Camera: Nikon D3100 14.2mp

Mount: CG-4 mount

Exposure: 1/2sec approx

ISO: 800

It's easy to see that the result is much better. I took this photo while the moon was waxing, which gives much more detail in the craters.