This is the first try of my astrophotography taking. I chose Jupiter as the object as it was the brighest objects during tonight. It took me around 10 minutes to setup the telescope. Afterthat, I connect my LPI imager to my Dell 640M.
Sadly, the result isn’t encouraging. It seems that I might miss out something in the manual. The result is really poor. Even my Konica Minolta can handle it better. I am quite sad now. I was expecting a much more exciting result but it ddin’t come out at last. Somemore, the sky became cloudy after I took the fifth shot. 
As you can see from the picture above, it’s really poor. I’ll ask the professionals to encounter this. This mustn’t be the shot actually for an experienced photographer.
On July 3rd, asteroid 2004 XP14 will fly past Earth. It is situated just a bit farther than Moon. To be exact, its distance is 1.1x distance of Moon. XP14 is large enough (600 metres wide) and bright enough (11th magnitude) to see through backyard telescopes as it races across the star-fields of the Milky Way. There’s no danger of a collision, just a nice photo-op for amateur astronomers.
You are advised to use this page to generate the orbit simulation and high-accuracy ephemeris.
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Oh yeah! I have received my Dell Inspiron 640M this morning! It’s so shinny! I will do a reinstalling of Windows because I don’t quite like all the softwares Dell installed for me. I don’t use some of them. A reinstalling would be great to refresh all the system!
Sorry that I didn’t upload the photos yesterday as I was too tired and fall asleep. Here is the photo!
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Pluto is the well known 9th planets in the solar system. According to the latest discovery, it has 3 moons now.
Now, the 2 latest discovered moons by Hubble Space Telescope on May 2005 have been named as Nix and Hydra. Before, they were originally called S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2.
Left: The 2 small dots on the picture are Nix and Hydra.
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I’m sorry that I can’t write any article yesterday as I am having high fever, flu and headache. The doctor measured that I was 39 degree celcius. It’s really suffering! I don’t have the appetite to eat. All I can do is to sleep the whole day.
This is a good news indeed! I’ve ordered Dell Inspiron 640M this morning! Hopefully, I am able to get it this week. Then, I can start to do Astrophotography! 
Here’s its specification:
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Do you know what was the special of 17 June 2006? It’s the alignment of Saturn, Mars and Mercury! You may refer to Mars Meets Saturn on 17 June 2006 about this event!
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World is always wonderful when there is imagination. By just staring at the sky you can always figure out many things. This is why the concept of constellations was born in the ancient. Let’s start enjoying the gallery!
Look at this dark yellowish Moon! If there is no detail on it, people will misconsider it as an egg on the black table! One of my friend was just cheated. 
This was taken on 10:47PM 14 June 2006. I was packing my telescope and accidentally found this big egg located between the crevice of the houses.
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I was quite tired yesterday. Therefore, I just observed 5 objects. Three of them were globular clusters. 2 of them were the so-called Messier objects. They were a little bit faint in the view. I think this might be the problem of the atmosphere turbulence. I found Moon was the most interesting objects but I didn’t observe it using my precious LX90 but the naked eyes. 
The Moon was really mighty and yellowish! It looked like an egg and a grandma was in the Moon! I will be writing an observing note about this tomorrow. 
Good news here! I will be getting a notebook in 2 weeks time. By that time, the imager will be sent to the front line and the observing notes will be filled with images!
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13 June 2006: There is a new crater on the Moon. It’s about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
NASA astronomers watched it form: “On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon’s Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that’s about the same as 4 tons of TNT,” says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. “The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope.”
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This is the first try of my astrophotography taking. I chose Jupiter as the object as it was the brighest objects during tonight. It took me around 10 minutes to setup the telescope. Afterthat, I connect my LPI imager to my Dell 640M.
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