Cool Photos bud,

Now I know which house to Rob liao.... hahah

With his Meade, he can spot you coming from 3 kilometers away! The polis will be waiting for you lah. 
Congrats, Mr.LKM. Your Jupiter shots are spot on for the LPI. I think the bluish tone is caused by slight underexposure - I get that most of the time too. But I don't mind because the highlight details are more important. If you overexpose, the planet looks more color balanced but washed out, and I feel that's worse. Jupiter has such a wide contrast and color range that it is quite challenging to find the best compromise in midtones.

For more details, you can try using a 2x/3x barlow. Some ppl even go for a 5x barlow. But that's a bit too much for the LPI's sensitivity with your 8" SCT, especially now that Jupiter is no longer at opposition.

Wah..Richkid. 

Anyway, thats a good camera and the price has dropped below RM5K by now since the 30D has been released. Nikon D70S and Canon 350D also worth the look plus its much less.......

Nice piece of work there, Mr.LKM. Looking forward to your next article. 

Well, I only just managed to read your article on monochrome CCDs.   

Maybe a bit too Meade orientated (could be annoying to Celestron fans lah)......how about something on the USD 2 Billion Hubble Space Telescope? I think it also uses a monochrome CCD......maybe cheapskate NASA couldn't afford a colour CCD.  j/k.

Anyway, you nailed it on the advantages of the CCD imager over the DSLR. But Canon seems to be making a big push towards using their equipment for Astrophotography, so tomorrow (or the near future) the story may change. 

Are you one of the producers for this yearly event? 

Wah. OUr budding astronomer really started from young. Im abolutely lost as to the technical jargons being discussed here. The only few I'd understand might be related to Digicameras thats all....

Managed to see any thing?

Tonight's the peak for us. My eyes will be glued upwards after dinner........ 

Hi. How are you (guys)?

Any mod done on the PCVC840K?

Hi, long time no see u. Last time was at SS2 McD's right? About a century ago.

My ToUcam's still working with my old adaptor. Haven't done adaptor version 2 yet since it works fine. Nothing much to shoot though. The skies have been misbehaving again.

What are the chances of having another ToUcam bulk?
But Ganymede is larger than even Mercury & some say it may be a `captured' planet, not a true Galilean satellite.

There're also rumours that under the new definition, our own moon may qualify as a planet - which means that we (Earth & Moon) will be a double planet system too.  If you trace out the Moon's path, it does orbit the Sun in a wobbly way, just like the Earth also wobbles around the Sun due to the Moon's proximity. So who's orbiting who?

But I like the idea of Xena being made one of the planets........... She can fight with Mars everyday like in the TV series! 

BTW I just got a 404 at your blog. Are you updating it?

Personally, I think if they keep messing around with the definitions, we could end up with hundreds of objects suddenly becoming planets.

My favourite position is that we have Eight planets, and Pluto is just another KBO (Kuiper Belt Object) like Xena. That way, the planets are an exclusive club of eight and should remain so for quite some time. But obviously this will not please our Muslim brothers........there are a lot of religious implications in the definitions that many people are not aware of. It's not just science, you know.

Our Physics books will have to be revised and reprinted (I can imagine the printers rubbing their hands in glee at the new business!)

And the astrologers now will have to take the new planets into account with their predictions.........but how come they couldn't predict this?

Hey, whats up on the 27th at 12:30 am? Planet sightings or something?

ya, tonight about a zillion people will be straining their necks looking for the BIG red planet........and you are just in time!
What happened to your SNP?

julchin_09, tomorrow you can ask your friend innocently if he missed his beauty sleep. 

trying to get version 6....