Just posted some of my mars images from last night. warning they aren't that good. this was my first time imaging mars! they are in my astro-photo blog
Last night was nice and cold very cold. I went out at 12:00a.m and set everything up. I aligned the telescope was pretty easy and went to mars. I images for awhile and took a look at the seven sisters (M45) and the Orion nebula. they both looked nice. for around here it seemed like there were alot of stars. it was very pretty!
The telescope worked great. The only thing i had a problem with was my dumb little finder scope. Its a little 8x21mm peace of crap. I want to get a new one like the GSO Multi-Target Red Dot Finder. I had that one for my old telescope and loved it, but sold it with the Orion 90mm. I'm just not sure how i would put it on the Meade etx-125. I'm not really comfortable making holes in the tube.
The Mount was great. I used something i never used before with this mount ( Meade lxd55) the park the telescope. I know this is goofy, but when i was packing the stuff away i saw the park the scope option so i pushed enter and it put it self back to the home position. I thought that was cool i always did it and its hard when its dark to get it to the right spot. The align worked good. tracking was good!
It was a nice night. very cold, but still was nice to get out under the stars again!
I hope you all have Clear Skies!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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John,
Here's a link to my website. Go down the page a bit and it will show some photos / ideas to make your own mount to use a "daisy" red dot finder for you ETX. The dimensions may be a little different but the concept should work.
Clear skys!
http://www.webewebbiers.com/Astronomy.htm
hey Gordon, thats a great idea! thanks for sharing! that should work perfectly!
nice website. good read!
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