May 1: Meridian Star Trails
Star trails looking high in the North from the Southern Hemisphere, showing the meridian and the celestial equator.
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Jan 2: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 39
Recent planetary images.
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Aug 12: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 37
The Solar System at work! Read More
May 22: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 36
Shooting the Sun. Read More
May 20: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 35
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.
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Mar 28: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 34
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse.
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Feb 24: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 33
A stunning high magnitude flare from an Iridium satellite. Read More
Jan 18: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 32
Lunar imaging.
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Jan 1: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 31
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer - 2
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Nov 14: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 30
The Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Celestrial Tracker, for DSLR Cameras. Read More
Jun 21: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 29
Lunar conjunction with Venus and Jupiter.
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May 18: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 28
Comet Hunting.
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Nov 10: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 23
Star trails and electronic camera noise with a Canon 300D.
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Oct 9: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 22
What are the basic equipment requirements for tripod astro-imaging?
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Aug 27: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 21
Q&A time. Read More
Aug 27: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 20
Latest images, taken with light pollution filter.
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Mar 16: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 19
Polar aligning a Vixen Polarie camera mount (and the value of belonging to an astronomical society).
Read MoreMar 8: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 18
2013 has become a great year for comets! Read More
Mar 3: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 17
What to do when the clouds keep on keeping on? Read More
Feb 25: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 16
Conjunction - the movie. Read More
Feb 23: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 15
Jupiter's near miss with the Moon, 18th February, 2013. Read More
Feb 14: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 14
The Vixen Polarie camera mount - an evaluation. Read More
Feb 14: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 13
With the polarmeter on my Vixen Polarie camera mount, I have been getting better images. Read More
Feb 4: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 12
The Comet's tail. Read More
Jan 8: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 11
Comet C/2012 K5 Linear. Read More
Dec 24: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 10
To polar align my Vixen Polarie camera mount using a polarmeter, I first needed to know the deviation between Magnetic South and True South at the observing location.
Read MoreDec 22: Astrophotography Without Telescope - 9
Improving polar alignment of the Vixen Polarie camera mount with a Polar Meter. Read More
Dec 22: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 8
The tripod on my Vixen Polarie camera mount seemed unstable. Read More
Dec 22: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 7
I have not used my Meade LX-90 telescope since June 2012, when I decided to make a change of direction and concentrate my astronomy efforts on imaging with a camera mounted on a tripod.
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The two day old Moon. Read More
Sep 15: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 5
The Vixen Polarie Star Tracker camera mount. Read More
Jul 8: Astrophotography Without a Telescope - 4
An article submitted to "Prime Focus" magazine. Read More
Apr 15: Astrophotography without a Telescope - 3
The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds in the Southern skies. Read More
Feb 26: Astrophotography without a Telescope - 2
The beautiful crescent moon setting shortly after the sun. Read More
Jan 4: Astrophotography without a Telescope - 1
I've been a bit slack with serious astronomy recently, due to so many scheduled observing nights being cancelled by inclement weather and more recently by ill-health, so I motivated myself to take some images from the front verandah, which has a fairly reasonable Westerly aspect. These images were taken by camera on a tripod, no telescope involved.
Many of my best astro-images have come without the aid of my telescope and below are the ones I took last night. The images are of our Moon, Jupiter and it's moons.
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