Grand Tour 25 to 26-02-2006

Here is the work of a single night of astroimaging. I started at around 7pm with Mars, moved on to the double star Rigel followed by the Orion Nebula. I went out again at about 10pm to get Saturn. Then I got up bright and early at 4:50am on the 26th to get the Moon, Jupiter and its moons and Venus. As you can see, I have made a few attempts at each processing. I am very happy with my Jupiters, as I have gotten the most detail here than ever before. Only gotta get a shot of Mercury and I'll have imaged all 5 of the naked eye planets (of which I'm not counting Uranus, although some do). And later this year it is my goal to get Neptune and Uranus, and perhaps some other bright objects. Enjoy! (And I hope I chose an appropriate section to upload this in. If not, leave a message and I'll move it elsewhere ).

Taken with 10" F5 Newtonian on Dobsonian base, captured with Panasonic mini DV video camera held to telescope with home made camera bracket. WinDV used to capture footage as AVI, Registax used to process and Photoshop used to touch up.