Gaze through the stars

 I was able to gaze through the stars again with my husband

A pleasant cold night made us relax.. It let us forget our stress and appreciate life more.

Wondering what lies beyond milky way..

Such vast universe where we humans cannot comprehend what lies beyond..Where there seems no limit

Full of questions.. Infinite curiosity..

Jupiter through our lens

We were just so excited to use our new Neximage at our frontyard, so here it goes!

JULY 23, 2011

Around 5am

Io's shadow transits Jupiter

This was taken from our Celestron 4SE.

JULY 24, 2011

4:04am

Io emerges from limb!

Stay tuned for Saturn in a few months!



Celestron 4SE

This is our Celestron 4SE telescope. 

We plan to buy a Reflector dobsonian, Refractor and Celestron 8SE. Dunno which is which that my hubby gets paranoid that he wants it all, not to mention some extras like powertank, Neximage Celestron camera, eyepieces kit and barlow lens :p

I told to my husband that I think Celestron 8SE  is more feasible to buy with our current budget and timing. Let's say in 6 months. 

As of now, we're thinking of purchasing a Neximage Celestron camera and a barlow lens probably next month. 

Astrophotos

SATURN
January 2, 2010
Around 4AM
Still trying to show Cassini division

VENUS
January 2,2010
Around 5AM

My husband and I are being nocturnal again, all nighter astronomy. So, we spent our time searching for stars,nebula,galaxies and planets. The above processed images was manipulated from Registax software.

Probably this month or so, we'll buy the camera adaptor (used to attach our digicam)so we can play with it. So far, these are the pictures taken from our Celestron 4SE Telescope along with our Logitech Quickcam.

This is where we set up for Astronomy.

Everything seems pretty isn't? It's not edited, it's just my DIGICAM :)

HOW?

My husband set my digicam to ISO1600, 8" exposure time , F.2.

and voila!

Just DON'T MOVE if you want to take photo of yourself, it's too sensitive that will give you a blur.

Let's fly to the moon

Here is the latest shot of the moon, my hands are shaking that time coz we don't have a mount yet. Maybe next year! So, bear with me guys :)



Highly magnified moon

 We took these photos at our house (where street light is so kind to us . Dagnabbit). It's fun to have these snapshots, oh yeah before I forgot, I used my new digicam It's HP CB350 Digicam. I'm still playing with it on how to capture best pictures in astronomy.

Now, our plan is to buy DSLR (Digital Single Len Reflex) to capture more deep sky objects (nebula, galaxy) maybe that'll be on next year! It sure is exciting for us! :)

Hope you enjoyed it! Happy Weekend! :)

Another view of Celestron 4SE telescope

We've spent many hours to look at the universe. The following are what we've seen through this telescope:

OBJECT	TYPE
NGC 1981	Open Cluster
M1 CRAB NEBULA	Nebula
NGC 2264 Cone Nebula	Cluster with Nebulosity
M78	Nebula
M79	Globular Cluster
M44	Open Cluster
M42	Nebula
Jupiter	Planet
Uranus	Planet
M77	Galaxy
NGC 2232	Open Cluster
M35	Open Cluster
NGC 1981	Open Cluster
NGC 2264 Cone Nebula	Cluster with Nebulosity
M47	Open Cluster
M38	Open Cluster
M27	Planetary Nebula
M33	Spiral Galaxy
M31	Andromeda Galaxy
M32	Companion to Andromeda
Neptune	Planet
M33	Galaxy
M79	Globular Cluster
M77	Galaxy
Bear Paw Galaxy	Galaxy

Now, we're looking for a camera to photoshoot some amazing objects from the sky.
See yah and happy weekend! =)

Images of moon

Just I have promised, I'll be uploading pictures from our 4SE telescope! So here's what we saw:

The moon
29 October 2010
1:00 am

We bought an inexpensive webcam (Logitech Quickcam connect) for $10 to be used in photography, though we also have to remove the IR lens of the camera to be more light sensitive and will capture more sharp images from CMOS.


We tried it outside in front of our house and set up the gadgets, laptop,camera,telescope, UPS, adaptor. As me and my husband are peeking through the eyepiece, we were astonished to what we have seen! The moon craters are so obvious, the shadows, the atmosphere really into it. Our gadgets really complement with each other. =)

The moon
29 October
2:00 am

Unfortunately, we haven't took a photo of Jupiter
because of our darn tree blocking our view. Maybe
next time! As we go on, we tried everything that is


available at that time with our remote, such as, Pleades, Orion nebula, Betelgeuse, Saturn, Uranus. (some are being blocked by our roof and trees.)


So these are the snap shots of the moon with an hour gap and different side.


I'll be posting more images of what we see.


Enjoy and have a happy weekend!