The Johnson Blog

Took the telescope out last night, it was a very clear evening. I was able to snap a few shots of M57, The Ring Nebula. I was pretty suprised they came out like they did, this was the first time I’ve used the 15 second exposure option on my digital camera - I [...]

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My anniversary gift from Ana, a new Solar Filter for the new telescope, arrived today. I had to go to FedEx and pick it up after work but tried it out when I got home. It’s amazing what this telescope can do compared to my old one. I didn’t think it would [...]

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My first sighting of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was tonight!

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It was clear outside last night, so I spent some time trying to get a better picture of Jupiter. The results are decent:

I also got an image of M37, a cluster in Auriga. It looks way too dark on my CRT but ok on my laptop’s LCD. So be forewarned that it [...]

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I took quite a few pictures of the moon, they can be seen here. All pictures taken with my old scope have been moved into a sub-album.
Here’s one of them.

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This is made up of some 150 images, then the brightness adjusted in photoshop. Let me know what you think! Be sure to check out the full size image.

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I spent 4 hours tonight using my new camera and telescope. I have roughly 1000 images to go through and begin processing; at first glance I have some amazing pictures. I’ll try and get a few online in the next day or so… stay tuned!

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So that’s my first attempt of using my new telescope with a webcam. That image is made up of 20+ ’stacked’ frames of recorded video. There are a couple more like it of Saturn here but they aren’t much to look at since I just used default values in the stacking software for [...]

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