Moon this morning

Its not great, but here she is.. Luna… or Selena (my fav. name!) or the Moon… Shot this morning roughly at 6:45am, with a Canon EOS Rebel 350D, 32mm eyepiece (focusing blows), no filters, 800 ISO (should have done 100 or 200 – but I forgot), exposure about 1/250.  She’s pretty, but a little rough around the edges, my fault, I can’t seem to focus properly (any help will be most appreciated!). Enjoy.

Sol (aka the Sun)

Here is the sun, taken today with my Canon EOS 350D. This is the first decent picture I have taken with the new camera. There are no sun spots, but hopefully that will change soon. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure out all of the right settings for tonight – another clear night in Athens, GA!

Photos made better..

      Moon Upclose 

Thanks to Andrew’s help I was able to make these better!

Moon

     

Here are my last pictures of the night.

Saturn

         

Here are some pictures of Saturn – not great, but with my Canon A75 its about the best I can do… now for the moon. Moon pictures should be coming soon… got the coffee maker working!

Photos so far…

   

Here is what I have so far… although not great, but I think my scope is finally getting to temp. The two on the left are the Seven Sisters Nebula cluster (although I don’t think I got all seven – Andrew help me out!) the one on the left is Orion’s Nebula – or Orion A (sorry it didn’t put that last time) – it is part of Orion’s Sword, right in the middle (the middle of the three). I’m bout to head back out soon… the Moon is’t up yet, and I may attempt Saturn… never done that before, but Dr. Schmude (old Astronomy prof.) said I should!

Update

Well… its finally clear So I should be heading out tonight. I’m going to be experimenting a little, so I don’t know what exactly I will get. Plus, I’m going to try and stay out as long as possible… its going to be cold tonight though – down in the 20’s, so pray I can get my coffee make to work!!!

Weblog Update

Yes, I changed my appearance. I did not like the way it had my pages show up, so there

New Astronomy Pictures

 

Here is the Sun, not a great pic, but just wanted to take it. No sunspots, etc. Here is the Moon taken this morning (Jan 23, 2008) at around 7am EST. The Moon was taken with my Canon EOS 350D with no telescope. Both pictures taken today from Athens, GA.

Update

Okay, so, well, the Weather Channel was wrong again. It got way to cloudy too fast, but according to the before mentioned weather prophets, its supposed to be clear by tomorrow afternoon… pray! (although we do need to rain – I am just being selfish)