Choostar, do u think I can catch some nice astropics with my new tiny Casio EX Z750? As u can see from my posts here, I've a long way to go.............my current goal is to capture a respectable shot of the moon with this digicam. Do u think it is possible? Or am I wasting my time? 
Well, u expressed yourself very well there. Obviously you've been doing plenty of research on the latest telescope equipment...... 

Hehe, I plan to invite you guys to observe using my telescope ( will be bought soon ) on the top of the Gunung Lambak at Kluang although it is just 500 metre high.

Anyone is interested in the plan of Astronomy.MY plan?

Don't feel sad with your camera, you can do it!

deepyu, mountain climbing time!
You got my support. But i don't know how to run website lah. I only know how to kacau kacau.
ya, I CAN DO IT!....er i think.......

Excuse me, I got to run to join some friends at star party tonight in the middle of KL. If got clouds, we do something else lah...

STAR PARTY?    Damn cool! I feel so sad as I am still sitting for my exams. 

Choostar, do u think I can catch some nice astropics with my new tiny Casio EX Z750? As u can see from my posts here, I've a long way to go.............my current goal is to capture a respectable shot of the moon with this digicam. Do u think it is possible? Or am I wasting my time? 
Well, u expressed yourself very well there. Obviously you've been doing plenty of research on the latest telescope equipment...... 

Altaz mount is capable of doing astrophotography as long as your CCD support Drizzle technology, such as Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro. Most of the GOTO telescopes can be mounted in equatorial mode and altaz mode and the quality of the coating of GOTO telescopes are very good and don't need to doubt about it. ( I meant Meade, Celestron and Orion Telescopes ). What I found the best telescope in budget that has short f/ is the LXD75. It just costs RM7900. In the other hand, the telescopes that offered by Meade which are capable of adding focal reducer are the money killers, RCX400 and LX200. They cost merely TEN THOUSANDS!

In this thread, we are discussing about high quality products, so far, this field is always expensive.

What I will buy next to the telescope is the DSLR , therefore, I can take galaxies down but the amount of the money that I spend is too much, my father will be sucked into a zombie . Oops, I will buy myself a notebook too in order to run the CCD camera on the telescope. Maybe I won't get these include the CCD, just go for observing and wait until I am capable of buying a DSLR to take all the photos down.

The atmosphere in Malaysia is quite bad. Therefore, Malaysia is not suitable for deep sky observing and long exposure photos of the celestial objects. I agree with you all that the 200-400mm F/2.8 is very good in taking the wide field.  So, is the mount of ETX105AT able to take out and put a DSLR on it? 

I am an idiot, I thought the 'register' link on the APGM is to register as a APGM account.    It is to register Multiply account. I am planning on setup a Malaysia Astronomy Website, anyone interested to give me a hand? 

p/s: This is my longest post since I joined LYN 

March05:
As for close-up shooting for moon, sun and planets, your camera will be good enough as long as it can be manually set, and mounted it onto a motorised telescope - with a 500mm or more focal length will do.

Personal opinion, ETX mount even with wedge does not perform well in long exposure (even 10 min) for astrophoto. The original attached tripod is not so supportive.
And I look forward to meeting you guys, and your scope also. BTW, what's your scope? You are in Kluang..... hmm... a bit far away...when you are going to have the first light?!
Have a nice weekend.

Hehe, I plan to invite you guys to observe using my telescope ( will be bought soon ) on the top of the Gunung Lambak at Kluang although it is just 500 metre high. sweat.gif

warr..so u are ready to buy your telescope
mountain climbing?  

March05 wont be able to do close up of the moon. His DC got only 3x opt. zoom.
The longest shutter speed will be 60s' rite March? So maybe you can take normal/wide angle shot of the moon.....

I hope that you all can criticize me as much as you can to correct me...

Dat looks like the kind of moon shots i'm going to be limited to....
This is what i can get at max optical zoom 3x (35mm equivalent is 114mm)


plus a bit of digital zoom:

These pics are cropped, no resizing.
Obviously i can forget about closeups of the Moon with my Cassie.

Choostar, not withstanding afocal photography (which is what i did for the Sun pic with a Solarscope - see post #189) and the common tricks in digital photoediting, are there any techniques favourable to compact digicams for astrophotography? Right now everyone is going great guns on DSLRS.......
It seems that Astrophotography is only for the rich or for the Astronomy expert!
Sure can ah? u won't shoot back? 

I will use M16 to shoot back  . When you put your camera on the tripod and starting to take the shot. STOP! Check your setting, use timer mode, iso50, and see around the environment. There you go!    Be careful! Don't use digital zoom, the quality of image is bad if it is being used.

Aiyoyo,  kena M16 eagle strike, i finish wor.
Okay, Mr.LKM, no more digital zoom (bad boy, March05, bad boy), get very bad image. 

bad boy or play boy?

u spy on me again ah?

Tonite no Moon lady, rain rain so much. I'll catch up on my sleep instead......dream about 16" telescope. 

Dat looks like the kind of moon shots i'm going to be limited to....
This is what i can get at max optical zoom 3x (35mm equivalent is 114mm)


plus a bit of digital zoom:

These pics are cropped, no resizing.
Obviously i can forget about closeups of the Moon with my Cassie.

Choostar, not withstanding afocal photography (which is what i did for the Sun pic with a Solarscope - see post #189) and the common tricks in digital photoediting, are there any techniques favourable to compact digicams for astrophotography? Right now everyone is going great guns on DSLRS.......
It seems that Astrophotography is only for the rich or for the Astronomy expert!
Sure can ah? u won't shoot back? 

M16 in fact is not harmful at all -- M16 is a Messier Object with a popular name of Eagle Nebula! So no worry.. hah!

March05, where shall I access to see your Solar pict?......

The photographer applied a DCL28.........

Before you dream about 16" telescope, do you have enough place to put this giant? 

I also got a palace in my dreams, can put this giant on one of the towers. U all can stay with me anytime, got 100 rooms for guests............hope i don't get a nightmare, instead turn into a haunted castle 

Today's Sun.

Solar Activity on 27th September 2005

Taken with the Casio, believe it or not.

That prominence has been raging for many days. There's a bad long tear in the surface of the Sun, too. You can easily fit more than 10 Earths in that gap. Sunspot 810 shows up clearly too.

.....You have so many dreams...... 

The M16 I said is not the nebula    but the gun