Hi @parthiiban ! Well its just practice. Btw i use a 8 inch dobsonian and ZWO asi 120mc-s as my primary cameras.
All the photos of planets and moon i have taken so far are all taken manually (and that is why i quote Completely manually tracked) in preface. For things like the weather balloon, i actually didn’t know that they can be used in civilian areas such as in Chennai, so it was un-planned.
Movement of dob’s can be a huge deal at the beginning, but as we practice more, we can easily handle them and capture a lot easier.
Don’t lose heart so soon. You have a nice conjuction coming up this week. You have at least two days to capture Jupiter and Venus within a degree of each other.
Sorry @Thiyagarajan, just remembered that you have the 8inch dob. Am not sure if you can get them together with that scope. Unless somone else who’s got a wider FOV setup that can capture it. Or even using just your camera instead of through the Dob, you may be able to capture it and then crop it after stacking.
@Stargazer123 , I remember you asking about observation logs sometime back (may be a long time now). This will be a great opportunity to log this conjunction. You should be able to get them through Binos.
@siva, @kishan, may be this is too short a notice. But, if there is decent amount of interest within the group, I guess it would be good to organise a workshop related to observation logs?
I hope you had some luck @Thiyagarajan, here I’m sitting under a thick blanket of clouds. Forecast doesn’t look promising for tomorrow as well. Fingers crossed.
Sry for the late reply @Gnana By the way i had opportunity to look onto the amazing conjunction !!! but i wasn’t able to photograph it properly as it was out of my FOV
Good that you were able to enjoy the view. I was lucky as well that the skies opened up for an hour on Thursday and I was able to look and sketch them out a bit. Here, I would have been able to fit them both within the FOV of the same scope, strange you weren’t able to. The worst part was, I wasn’t expecting any clear patch at all and had not kept my scope out. So, ended up looking at it with my binos. Lets see if this month end brings any luck with the Venus Uranus conjunction. That will be almost at the edges of the FOV of the 8incher. But, let’s see if Siva or someone else who’s got a proper wide angle set up able to capture that. I’ll surely be sketching it out, probably with the dob if I have clear skies.
I was planning to capture the conjunction but from my place (Kolathur), the western sky was fully covered with clouds (happens to me all the time ). The next day, I was able to see that the two planets were a few degrees apart which didn’t fit within my FOV (8" 1000mm and DSLR with APS-C sensor). I took a boring photo of it with my lens though. If the previous day was clear, I might even have tried with my ASI224.
Hey Thiyagarajan. I just came across this forum. Been into astronomy & stargazing for a few years now. Currently in Chennai, but no idea where to begin with in terms of wanting to buy my first telescope and possibly camera for some astrophotography. Any suggestion or tips as to where to begin with?
Well as a summary , if your are a beginner , you can buy a good 6 or 8 inch dobsonian which are btw the most popular and recommended telescopes of all time. With it you can do visual astronomy (Stargazing) as well as do astrophotography (mostly planetary photographs as above and some extent to deep sky photography with additional equipment). If you want to do full-fledged deep sky photographs you would need refractor type telescopes (with mounts, filters, guide scopes and more). But i would not recommend to directly start with deep-sky as it is time consuming and laborious in beginning as well as it is expensive. Whereas a dobsonian with all the cameras , eyepieces and filters(if needed) are half the price of a refractor setup. Hope this is helpful, have a great time!
). The next day, I was able to see that the two planets were a few degrees apart which didn’t fit within my FOV (8" 1000mm and DSLR with APS-C sensor). I took a boring photo of it with my lens though. If the previous day was clear, I might even have tried with my ASI224.