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Venus and the Pleiades
Captured with my old point-and-shoot on a tracking mount
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Pleiades
Center (RA, Dec): (56.683, 23.870) Center (RA, hms): 03h 46m 43.940s Center (Dec, dms): +23° 52′ 10.348″ Size: 1.49 x 1.49 deg Radius: 1.056 deg Pixel scale: 4.14 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 338.9 degrees E of N
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Pleiades
Center (RA, Dec): (56.548, 24.327) Center (RA, hms): 03h 46m 11.502s Center (Dec, dms): +24° 19′ 38.725″ Size: 4.57 x 6.1 deg Radius: 3.812 deg Pixel scale: 8.58 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 325.4 degrees E of N
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Pleiades
Center (RA, Dec): (56.493, 24.404) Center (RA, hms): 03h 45m 58.261s Center (Dec, dms): +24° 24′ 14.438″ Size: 63 x 41.4 arcmin Radius: 0.628 deg Pixel scale: 1.24 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 264.3 degrees E of N
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Awful scope on a nice mount
I just picked up a new mount but don’t have the dovetail rail for my SCT yet, so I just figured out how to clamp my $60 refractor onto it to learn how it works. I captured the Pleiades and a random bit of sky that happened to be full of faint stars.
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Hazy Sky
Decided to try for a better shot of the Pleiades again tonight, but transparency was awful. There was a slight haze over the whole sky and Orion’s belt was barely visible. I took a few afocal shots with my 9mm eyepiece since it pairs well with my cellphone camera, but the field of view was…
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Pleiades with a point-and-shoot camera
I decided to see what my camera with a 12x lens (60mm f/l) could do with the Pleaides. Here’s the result. I was hoping that the zoom was low enough for a 15 second exposure to work out, but as you can see there are trails. But not bad for a two-minute observing session.
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Pleiades
I finally had another clear night, and observed the Pleiades for the first time. Seeing was good for Jupiter as well, with all four moons out. Mars was tricky, I think I may have noticed a darker area and for a moment maybe the northern ice cap, but I’m not confident. The Pleiades cluster was…
