From: Ginger Mayfield (chikadee_at_antispamdomain.not)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 18:52:24 EDT
dimbu,
It's certainly not off topic to ask for help here. Welcome to the
group. Sometimes I don't know what folks are talking about either!
;-) First of all, if you haven't read the FAQ's and Getting Started
Guide at the Files site, please do.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital_astro/files/
These should help somewhat. It's a LOT to try to learn astronomy AND
astro photography all at once. Before we can help you we need to know
more, like what kind of camera, scope and adapter (to attach the camera
to the eyepiece) you're using. Do you have anyone at the university who
can help you learn how to use the telescope? You won't be able to do
much if you can't move the scope to where you want it.
By the way, this particular group is for digital still cameras, both
regular digital cameras and digital SLR's. The group which discusses
astro imaging with webcams is at the link below.
Ginger
dimbu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I joined this group just about a week back and have been trying to
> figure out what you guys are talking about but have had no luck
> yet...its still all Greek to me.
>
> This is actually regarding taking pictures of celestial objects using a
> digital camera and telescope, but, since this is more a cry for help
> than a display of my pictures, decided to add this as a out of topic
> message so that none of you professionals get annoyed by it, although I
> hope someone reads and responds to this.
>
> I recently gained access to a university observatory...and its pretty
> big. Its got that dome cover which rotates and opens up and all and its
> got a pretty big telescope inside it too. I have absolutely no idea on
> what type or specifications etc...Heck, I don't even know how a
> telescope actually works. I did search online and get a LOT of
> information, but, I was only able to look at the moon and WOW, it was
> amazing(Never ever did I expect to see so much clarity and detail!!!).
> Now, I want to be able to look at other stars or even planets but am
> just not able to. I know that there are these 5 different eyepieces with
> numbers 48mm, 32mm, 28mm, 24mm and 12mm. And this Big telescope with 2
> other smaller telescopes attatched to its side. I'm not sure, but I
> think I remember someone referring to one of those telescopes as 16
> inches and I can only guess that it's the big one. It has this red
> finder thingy using which you can put objects into the telescopes view
> and it also has this frequency thingy which I was told rotates the
> telescope to correct for earths rotation.
>
> If any of you are willing to receive questions from me on how to view
> and photograph or at least can point me towards some sort of list where
> I can ask such questions, I would greatly appreciate it. Please help an
> eager newbie take at least 1 decent picture of something other than the
> moon(Not that I got a good picture of it yet).
>
> After seeing one message with the picture of Saturn...taken by a web
> cam!!! I was so impressed that last night, I got those sky charts
> printed out from SkyandTelescope...tried my best to figure out where
> Saturn was, but failed...then I decided to try and see/photograph Mars
> and any other bright star and this is all I was able to get
> http://www.dimbu.com/pics/ and those don't even look anything like what
> its supposed to. I'm trying but failing so, if anyone wants to help out,
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks...and sorry for this HUGE and maybe even a bit away from this
> groups topic.
>
> dimbu
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