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Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mount with Canon 40D

 

My Solar setup using a DSLR and Mylar Filter on my ETX90

DSLR attached to ETX90. LiveView image of 2015 partial eclipse on Canon 40D

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 I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.

The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Day 122 Tuesday 22nd July 2014 The Moon and Venus in the morning sky

The Moon and Venus were prominent in the East in the early morning sky. This is a handheld shot with my Sony 350 DSLR with the Mediterranean Sea to the left. 


The Moon is at 20% phase and waning in the constellation of Taurus just above Aldebaran.

Venus is brilliant at magnitude -3.9 in Gemini with a phase of 90%.

Mercury is below and the the left of Venus at 7 degrees altitude or so but at magnitude 0.66 I did not capture it in the brightening sky.

The SkyX Chart shows the situation.