Quote Originally Posted by pass_the_dubbie
That's really cool!
I've never had the pleasure to trip out through a telescope...or even look through one sober. I should get one...the sky is very interesting indeed.
If you have a pair of binoculars, you can see a lot of great things in the sky. I actually pull out my binoculars more often than the telescope. Just kick back in the patio lounge chair, or lay on a blanket and scan around the sky with the binos. Good binos for astronomy are 7x50, but a lot os different kinds will do. The first number should be under 10x or it will be hard to hold steady without wiggling, and the last number should be over 40 --- the higher the better.

Quote Originally Posted by Doctor Whoov
Can you set the shudder speed on your camera? If you can set it to bulb and hold it in for a few minutes. If you wait too long you'll get trails (not the good kind) however you'll get great images of those deep sky objects. The Crab Nebula (M31 I think) is supposedly an easy one to start with.
I haven't experimented too much with the rig I set up, but I was having trouble getting a focus on faint objects through the camera. I can look at different faint deep sky objects through the telescope, but the photography wasn't working that well.

Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
This pictures are very nice!!! :thumbsup:
Do you have some picture of the planets?
Im sure you already knows where they are, but anyway... Jupiter is near Scorpio, Mars is in Gemini, Saturn is near Leo and Venus is unmistakeable... its visible before the sunrise.
Same as for the deep sky objects, I was having trouble getting a good focus on the planets through the camera. I can look at the planets through the telescope, but the photography wasn't working that well.

If I do take some more pics I'll be sure to post them!