My stash

Picture of the night I went star gazing  I got a full frame camera, and I wanted to capture milky way. What I initially understood was it is easy to do it if I have a good equipment, I was proven wrong. I have nikon z5 with a zoom kit lens of f4. I traveled to nearest hills where there is less light pollution, the thing is I should have stayed on top of the hill to get good glimpse of the horizon. In southern hemisphere during the time of November milky way rise and set in south west region, we don't get the full view of it.  The failed attempt I stayed in a valley where they grow coffee beans. The other gamble I made was trusting the weather, this year(2024) post monsoon has extended and lot of clouds can be seeing near horizon. One observation I did was early morning before all the fog drops down the sky will be clear like a still pond this will be early 3 to 4 am in the morning. Next time I will try following what others are doing, get a tripod, also possibly a pollution fi...

moon on DEC 2024     moon on Jupiter and moon conjunction DEC 2023 Don't worry about the title saying capturing the moon. I am not the Gru from "Despicable Me" or have minions by my side. All I have done is capture the image of the moon in my Android camera with the help of a telescope. The tools I used for this are listed below Celestron 130 eq (equatorial mount) android camera (any device released after 2017 will do) 10 mm eyepiece that came along with the telescope two other things came with it 20 mm eyepiece and 2x celestron omni Barlow lens. the pictures I have used here were captured between 22-dec-2023 and 25-dec-2023. first picture of the moon with my telescope It is not the best image out there but the efforts are honest, I just canceled a road trip plan to buy my first telescope. sent the next few days to understand the mount working and the proper initial setup to track objects. the telescope is largely debated for its ability in many forums, I think if you ar...