You're right. I was just pointing out that you shouldn't waste your money on binocams for astrophotography. It's okay for general sight seeing and some birding activities, since the main feature of the binocam is the 2-in-1 compactness. Binocams with larger apertures than 32mm have mostly been discontinued in the market. That indicates something, doesn't it?

You can easily pick up a good pair of 7x50 binos instead of a binocam and still have cash to spare.

Happy shopping!

Sunspot 953 is evolving very fast! It's got a long filament attached and a respectable plage. After weeks of a blank Sun, this is very nice!

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6603/sun2may20074ak2.jpg

Still trying to figure out the best way to shoot the sun with my Casio.

Some lunar stuff from this morning.
The usual maxed out moon.


Jupiter courting the Moon.
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1989/mo...6may2007ry8.jpg

Now this one for fun. The cloud looks like it's lighted up by the moon.
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4703/mo...6may2007st4.jpg
I have reposted this pic. The earlier one was not correctly rotated.

Going to try some sun shots later today. Saw some huge prominences yesterday evening, but by the time I had set up the camera, the sun went behind clouds......usual story lah.

This post has been edited by March05: May 6 2007, 08:32 AM

Yesterdays sun shots:

1. Taken with a ND (Neutral Density) Filter. What most ppl call a `normal' Solar Filter. Costs ~ RM500. Place in front of my refractor.


2. Taken with through a Coronado PST ( a Solar Telescope with a built in Hydrogen Alpha Filter) Costs ~ RM4,000. Just pinjam only.

As you can see, I'm hopeless at shooting through the PST with my Casio. I think the Casio CCD is not capable of resolving the narrow Ha bandwidth. There's limited detail captured although the original view in the PST is amazing.

If you join enough astro clubs and have some (hopefully money no object type) friends who also have the same interests, then you sure got lobang lah. But you must also be prepared to return the favour in other ways.....like help them to carry their heavy astro equipment 3-4 kilometers uphill to their secret observing site.

No pain, no gain.

The weather forecast says thunderstorms and clouds this evening in the Klang Valley.........

cleverlynn, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!

I like this one best....you got the turquoise moon very nicely! Spot on exposure!

A bit puzzled about your date, though. Taken on 29th August?


hanissyazwan: sorry to disappoint you, but the eclipse was already long over by 3.21 a.m. 29th August 2007 in Malaysia.

You must have had a long booze lunar eclipse party ..........anyways, your exif showed 28-08-2007, so I knew it was a typo. But my other obnoxious twin just had to point it out.

Do you have any recent Perseid shots by any chance?

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Added on August 29, 2007, 8:32 pmAlmost missed you. Did you join just to post in this thread?

BTW I heard the Starfinders had a fair bit of success with the Perseids in Ulu Yam earlier this month. Can post some pics ah?




This post has been edited by March05: Aug 29 2007, 08:32 PM

Are you still active and doing astrophotography?. It would be so good to have some occasional shots of PD night skies here.

Looking for astro kakies, yes.....but no time to join them lah.