Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Dec 13, 2012 3:39:08 GMT -6
Great sky - small scope time
13 December 2012
13 December 2012
The skies this early morning were very transparent and steady. I thought some scope time was in order, but really did not want to set-up the C11 Beast, so I mounted the 90mm Refractor to the CG mount and off I went for a very short imaging session...
My backyard is not Astronomer friendly, with trees and buildings only offering a narrow sight-line opportunity to the south. Popping in a Orion Nebula Broadband filter onto a 25mm 1.25" eyepiece...the results were okay...
The light gathering ability of the C11 would have produced a much better image...but ok.
Jupiter finally left my tree obstruction and I caught a couple of quick less-than-impressive shots...
The first one was taken with the Nebula filter...just for the hell of it and the second with another type of Deep space filter, but I couldn't read what it was.
This was an irritating session, as things just did not want to cooperate. Numerous batteries died, obstacles constantly in the way, things out of reach all night, back killing me and other small crap.
Perhaps tomorrow will be better....
