Uranus, green filter 27th Oct 2010

Using 3 x TV Barlow and 2 x re-sampling in Registax.

Uranus 25th Sept 2010

The night of the planets.

It's cold... but clear!!
Haven't been out for ages, so I thought I'd try and bag a few planets.
Boy I tell you what, Neptune is faint, had to pull out all the stops to image that. With the camera running at full gain & aperture, and that was at prime focus.
Coming a bit closer was Uranus, which I could a least image with a 2.5x Powermate and RGB filters.
And then we have Jupiter with a nice Callisto transit right in the middle ;-) Taken with LRGB filters, 5x Powermate & at prime focus. Very low on the horizon.

I was hoping to get a really good Mars image tonight, but this is all I could manage, and now it's started to snow! Grrr.

Uranus 24th Nov 2008

Imaged with C9.25, DMK, 2.5x TV Powermate and Astronomic filters. 700 frames per channel.

Uranus rings 'were seen in 1700s'

From BBC website. What a great story.

Uranus 21st August 2006

Uranus tonight... 1.7 billion miles away, boy is it small in the EP? Although it is discernable as a planet, I couldn't make out any colour though.
This was taken at prime focus, 600 frame AVI. Took a little while to find it using the Toucam. Mag 5.7