...because it seems there is not alot of Nexstar SE Info out there

The idea for starting my own website/blog came to me when I was looking for information about the Nexstar SE series telescopes on the internet. There are a couple of amateur sites out there (check the list of sites on the left) as well as the official Celestron website but I found that most of these sites were sometimes catered to the seasoned amateur astronomer and were a little difficult for me to understand. So I decided to write down my experience with this telescope so that maybe someone else might benefit from it. Oh - and I don't have any connections to Celestron - I only chose the orange color for the blog since I thought it would go nice with all the pictures of an orange telescope ...

Monday, April 19, 2010

...just the moon



I dragged my scope out tonight to take some quick shots of the moon and saturn. The moon turned out nicely, but Saturn looked like crap. So here's the moon:




The file is in 1920x1200 format to fit your wide-screen desktop if need be : )

2 comments:

  1. Looks good!
    what did you use to image with?
    are you using a focal reducer? I seem to not be able to get the entire moon with the celestron nextimage, even with the focal reducer tube they sell as an add on.

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  2. I actually always have the same problem. I took several pictures and then merged the three images together in photoshop.

    I would also like to find a suitable focal reducer so that i can take pictures of the moon. I don't really want to have to buy a telephoto lens for my camera....

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