My first serious attempt on Jupiter
Just as I felt guilty for not staying under the night sky for such a long time, I lugged my LX90 together with all the gadgets out to my garden.
Archive for the 'Astrophotography' Category
The general thumb of rule to get good astrophotograph is,
Good photo = 6 Good(s)
Good telescope: The telescope isn’t necessary to be expensive or exotic. It just has to be suitable on the object that you image.
Good mount: The mount can support the telescope well and the setup is very well balanced.
Good tracking: The tracking error is supposed to be acceptable with the focal length you are imaging at.
Good camera: Again, the camera has to be a good partner with the telescope. Read this article about what’s a good partner.
Good skill: This means the imaging skill (image taking + processing skill)
Good weather: No wind to cause vibration, no atmospheric turbulence to cause distorted image, and most importantly, NO CLOUD.
Why is there conclusion but no detail of this topic posted? Hehe, the detailed article is still in progress. Summary comes first. 
Dear every Meade telescope users, you’re now given a chance to submit your photo taken with Meade telescopes. I am looking forward a chance to take lunar images. Submit your photo here.
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Click on the images for larger versions. Both of them are the stunning images from the Cassini Imaging Team. They are actually the same photo, just the latter of which colour contrast is exaggerated. The colour variation of the latter image imply that the sorting of particles in different sizes. The image is a stack of 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera in nearly 3 hours.
For more information, please visit In Saturn’s Shadow
Isn’t it a GoTo telescope is capable of tracking celestial objects? Why do I need the autoguiding? ![:-\](http://www.astronomynotes.net/smilies/yahoo_question.gif ":-\"){kind=small}
At first, tracking is just similiar to guiding. For instance in the Autostar Suite from Meade, tracking allows you to define a bright spot (centroid) that it (Autostar Suite) will use to anchor images when combining (stacking) them into one image.
