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!



What we bought for astronomy!

NEXIMAGE

Solar System Imager

Now I can post lots of pictures of planets! hurrah!

Next are the eyepieces and a barlow,  

3x Barlow

We bought these from the US online from Hayneedle and Optcorp and had them delivered by Pobox.ph and then LBC. AWESOME!

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.

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! =)