Moon 31 Aug 2015

I am a little behind in uploading this one. This was from the night following the full moon at the end of August, 31/8/2015. I was wanting to get a higher resolution image so decided to do as a mosaic . The above image is comprised of 15 panels where each panel was created using the Canon 70D attached to the GSO 6″ RC with a 0.75x reducer.

Moon 23rd May 2015

There was blue skies for a change at sunset this evening so I dragged the gear out and set up expecting (hoping) to have a good clear evening for practicing a few things.  Straight out of the gate things didn’t go too well as it took forever (60 min) to repeatedly do the star alignment…

Welcome

Hi, Well I guess I should start this new site of with a bit of info about why I am doing all this.  I have been interested in astronomy since a young age, even to the point of studying units while at University.  During this period,  the posters on my wall were a mix of old…