wat?? 4900??3900?? just as i tot.. ..
but tat the price lar for astrophoto..even as beginner
btw ugpm

The product they are selling now is ETX PE series and others. ETX-90PE costs RM4500......RM600 more comparing to ETX-90AT......

Here is a photo of Moon and "not-sure" Venus


Sorry for the noise of this picture because my camera is not a DSLR The big light spot is the Moon.

If your camera time/date is set correctly, then that's Mars. You can check yourself using a planetarium program. Try these:

HNSKY: http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm
Cartes du Ciel: http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/

Why do you say if my camera time/date is set correctly? Does it affect anything? Thanks for the softwares that you recomended

1) A digital camera saves the time/date of a photo when taken; this can be extracted
2) Planetary bodies move about so they don't reappear in the same spot in the sky on every night
3) It is possible to calculate the positions of the planetary bodies, as a function of time

You can apply the calculations in #3 using input from #1, to find #2 at the time that you took the photo. So, if your time/date is incorrectly set, the calculations will not represent what you took

Thanks for the guide. I will try to calculate it.

Next time if u buy the meade with the autostar u just have to
key in wat planet u want to see and there u goes..

That is not Venus, it's Mars. On 25th August morning, Mars rose ~ 25 minutes after the Moon, just as shown in your photo. At that time , Venus was already below the horizon to the West.

U can also point the telescope at the planet and ask for its identity......

Woots! I got something surprise

Woots! I got something surprise

Hey everybody, check this out!

Venus and Jupiter are going to be meet in just at the conjunction 1.2 degree apart!!

This will appear around 8 pm at the north! ( I am not sure about the direction )

Go out and take a look now. Look West, not North. Both planets are setting already. But you have missed the conjunction: it was last night. I was watching them while driving home, both planets easily able to pierce through the usual KL smog. No stars could be seen. Tonite they are already moving apart.
Try for the Moon-Venus close encounter on the 7th September. It will be a new Moon......just a thin curve, very spectacular if you can spot it.

Yesterday, the venus and jupiter were on a line but I missed to take the photo because I was swimming By the way, how come you didn't kena accident since you kept watching on the sky? It is so pity that so many people think that they were just stars...... I will try to take the photo of them tonight. The photos that were taken on 3 September were not clear as I forgot to use timer to shoot.....

haha..yea2 lots of ppl dunno. anything except the sun and moon are all stars..

How do you know I'm not in hospital right now? Just kidding.....
Actually, on the way back from KL to Subang Jaya, I take the Federal Highway. I'm like facing West most of the time. The two lovers up in the sky right in front of me lah.
Your photography alot better than mine;

BTW deepyu, how's the stills using your new Panasonic 3 CCD? I'm thinking of upgrading to 3 CCD too, but I think I need a digicam (much cheaper) first. Cannot keep using my handycam as a still camera, it's embarassing. My 35mm SLR has unfortunately given up the ghost.

Mr.LKM whatever you do, don't miss Wednesday nite's rare Moon-Venus-Jupiter event. Take lots of pics and show us. I'll be trying with my handycam, but you can see the quality is nothing to shout about.

Thanks for the heads up. I think I'll finish off the last two frames in my camera taking that.

Well..still pics considered good for dv level for me..Cant compare to
digicam lar. ..its 1/6size ccd cant beat normal 3M digicam with bigger ccd.
After all tis is dv rite. Later maybe I can post some pics for u.

I won't miss this for sure Is this happened on the west sky?
Deepyu, have you bought a telescope?