Steve....

The Cassegrain Telescope acts like a massive mirror lens... the reflector takes a mirror image.

Thank you both for your kind words

PS... I do have a better one of Betelgeuse but not sure I can put it in here. It was taken with a Lumix GF1!

Yesterday I took advantage of the nice weather, and headed to Warslow Moor. At tea time I then shot back home to stand in my back garden gawking upwards!

I shot colour, B&W, IR, and Astro... Kind of a busy day fannying with cameras!

Colour and B&W



















IR






















And finally.... Astro!

This is Betelgeuse. Shot thru a 150mm Newtonian Reflector.



The Moon shot thru a Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope



The Moon shot thru a 150mm Newtonian Reflector



All images PP with PS and LR. Astro stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, Registax and PS

Might have a look at the me'sen

Have a look at Gimp. It's free editing software...

Get it here

You can do simple stuff all the way thru to indepth editing.

If i leave the mrs in the house, can i take 2 other lenses???

I love this!

It's fecking cloudy here

Brilliant capture!! Lovely and clear....

Bloody cloudy here!!

Have you ever tried a stack?

Not in PP per se.... i tend to shoot very contrasty images. Especially so when shooting in IR...

Personal preference because I like the way light is captured in images with good contrast. For me it makes them more evocative and ethereal!

I went for a wander down to the Goyt Valley just outside Buxton today... the first one is actually near where I live!

These are all my results!






















These last two....

I cannot decide which one I prefer,,,

A



B

Here is a my photos of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter!