March05, mind to send me your original photos for me to make animation?

Great photos up there!

March05, may I be granted the permission of use of your lunar sequece? As usual, copyright stated.

Nice pictures...too bad I'm not the astronomy fan

let us poison you.

I've reworked the orientation of the frames to approximate the path of the moon moving across the Earth's shadow.


BTW,the moon moves right to left......

Mr.LKM, the original full resolution shots are rather large for me to upload - over 260Mbs (~90 frames) and frankly, quite crabby before correcting for color, and contrast - no thanks to the haze.

I am too lazy to do that animation now. May I be granted the use of both of the lunar sequence images?

How did the Earth shadown move on Moon? I thought it's just like we saw it?

Can lah. But I think there are much better shots out there......

This simulated animation by Larry Koehn of Nashville, Tennessee can explain better:
As shown on www.spaceweather.com

wu wu wu i want a telescope... or binocular...

Oh... this one. I just forgot about it. Why not you submit your photo to spaceweather.com? You own them!

blueye, buy one!

This post has been edited by Mr.LKM: Sep 10 2006, 04:44 PM

well saving $$

Bro March05, your masterpiece is now up at my blog.

This post has been edited by Mr.LKM: Sep 11 2006, 10:17 PM

i just check on a book about astronomy... binoculars view is really limited... only the CCD camera have superior detail...

binoculars can only view the moon up to detail but the rest it can enable viewing of planet and star as a brigher dot and differentiate the color of the space object view.

Yeah, it is. It's good for learning constellations though because of the large field of view (FOV). In Malaysia, the ccd imager ability is actually not so strong as we are near the equator where the weather changes frequently as well as we need very sturdy equatorial mount for long exposure imaging.

so most time when u taking long exposure u use ur binos to view? not gonna miss it... or wait until u developed the films and found out something was very badly wrong...

blueye, the binoculars are very useful in astronomy because it is not as limited in viewing angle as a telescope. Take a look at the Pleiades through it, and you will enjoy it better than through most telescopes. Likewise, a lot of other star clusters are more impressive with binoculars than through the limited view of a telescope.

And if you want to do some comet hunting, binoculars are better.

Think of it this way. Binoculars are similar to the wide angle lens on your SLR camera. Just because you have a 300mm telephoto lens does not mean you don't need the 28mm lens anymore.

I will never go out star gazing without my binoculars, even though I sometimes go without a telescope.

The CCD is merely an imager, and with new developments in CCD/CMOS technology, we will change our methods in using them for astrophotography. But nothing beats seeing astro objects with your own eyes. Like seeing a real sunset, compared to looking at a picture of it.

march05, good explaination.

Huh? What do you mean by film developing? When you are beginner to the astronomy, I always recommend a binocular to train your "go-to" skill before you invest in telescope as you have already been familiar with the sky and you know what does it take you to.

At the moment, I am going to get a deep sky imager (not from Meade) and focal reducer for wider field imaging. I was planning to use my telescope to take the lunar eclipse but due to the narrow fov of my telescope, I just forgot about it.

Franky speaking, "real seeing" is always better than enjoying the images as it makes you excited.

Hi. Sorry for off topic a while.

Do you guys willing to pay for this model or not?

http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/c..._00_GB_CONSUMER

KIller webcam, the replacement model for 840K. Very well known for tube-hogger.

Around RM300.

Minimum quantity is 50 units (that is my issue to worry). If you guys interested then that would be good to bring in, if not just wasting time and money to stock piling it.

I think you advertised in the wrong thread bro.

Not advertising dude, most likely an information to the hobbyist which appreciating this stuff that they have asked me to bring in.