Haha, finally you are back. I am sure that you missed many major events.

hi Mr.LKM,this model can observe moon and planets or not?

http://www.stargazer.com.my/product_detail.php?id=134

It should work. I suggest that you go to take a look at www.meade.com

what are the major events in m'sia....? apart from comet pojjy and the lunar eclipse....

Aren't they major enough?

nope.... not without supernovas and the cataclysmically-destructive black hole hovering pass our solar system...

That's really major as we are going to die.

You won't even know you are dead as it will happen so fast should it be in viewing distance.

That's when the telescopes are used.

wannna ask.. can i take astro photo with jus a normal digicam like a700 or a620.... ppl here seems like talking abt slr oni when a person wan to take astro photo....

Yes it is possible. One of the best digital cameras to take astropics is the Nikon Coolpix 4500.

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Enferno, do you mean astrophotography through telescope of just pure using of digicams?

jus the pure digicam alone..currently plan to buy conon A700.. so is this model able to take astro pic... how to know how long is a digicam maximum exposure?

Just to the website of canon and check its specification and you'll know that.

If you mean taking pics of the starry skies as astro pic, then your A700 should be able to. However, anything further than that and you will need a telescope.

is 15 seconds shutter speed enuf to take astro pic...

15 seconds @ ISO 400 will be able to take decent starry skies provided you have less or no light pollution and the picture noise doesn't kill it.

from canon website.. i read that there is exposure time of 5mins.... izit oni applicable to d-slr oni...? or every camera can set that manually.. n y ppl saidthat a old type camera works better than a digital camera.. izit comparing with a old slr with latest slr or normal cam with latest camera..

Usually SLRs will have much longer shutter speed between 30 to 60 seconds and a bulb mode of a few minutes to unlimited with bulb mode.
However, there are some prosumer cams that support long exposure time till 60 seconds as well as a few minutes of bulb mode.

Film cameras produce pictures equivalent to about 30 to 40 megapixels of digital pictures. But it wouldn't make any difference if you only make 4R prints.