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My First Attempts at Digital Astrophotography
About This Photo
This photo of Saturn was taken using 6", f8.0 Celeston non-tracking dobsonian telescope and an Olympus C-3040 ditgial camera.  Exposure:1/25 sec; ISO: 400.
Set-up Details
The camera was mounted to the telescope using an homemade adapter. It was made from a 1.5in PVC fitting which slides over a Tiffen filter adapter and is clampled to an eyepiece.  A
25mm eyepiece was used for this photograph (See Details).
About This Photo
This photo of Jupiter and it's moon is an overlay of two photos.  There were taken with the same setup as above.  Exposure of Jupter was 1/200 sec and the moons exposure was 1/4 ISO: 400.

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