My first astronomical picture and the view from down under
drt on Jan 28 2007 at 10:29 am | Filed under: Astronomy
Finally we have clear sky but I was extremely busy and did not spend too much time to watch the world biggest screen in the past few nights. However, I managed to take a few pictures of the moon using my old Mavica 95 camera, but I didn’t inspect the results since I noticed that the vibration was there when I tried using the long exposure time. This morning I was very surprised to see this slice of blue watermelon with a details that I have never expected to see, while I was working on this entry after reading the email and saw a link in Paul Floyd’s email to Seesat-L. This is the first astronomical object that I have captured using a 10x magnification of my camera. I have taken it with variable speed and this 1/60 sec seems promising. I would try few more shots as the moon getting brighter in the coming nights.
Back to Paul Floyd’s email, here is the link that I referred to. I love to see the McNaught commet pictures taken from down under. In addition to that, for a long time I have also been thinking on how to help the school children in my old home town to watch the passing of ISS and other satellites or any astronomical events. Since they didn’t have that much Internet access over there, usually if I saw a good pass while surfing some of the links listed in my satellite tracking page, I would go to Heavens-above, selected the particular location that I had saved in Heavens-above and captured the data for them. At one point I was thinking of creating a page to let them get their local coordinates from Heavens-above, then add a script to let them insert the location in the form provided on that page to get their data. But I have never had a chance to do that. Looking at Paul Floyd’s page on Customised Astronomy & Space Information For Your Location, I thought it is a good idea. I need to create one for the school children in my old home town.
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