Telescopic images

I don’t have a nice camera for my telescope, but I’ve captured a few images by holding the camera up to the telescope eyepiece with the exposure and zoom set high. All images are cropped, flipped so that north is at the top and west is at the left, and light levels adjusted to more like what I saw with my eyes.

Mars at 11 July 2003 09:09:36 UT

This image and the next two were collected in the wee hours. I used my 8mm Televue Radian, yielding a magnification of 350 for this image. I used auto-focus, which may be responsible for the blurry quality. Or maybe not.

Mars at 11 July 2003 09:42:22 UT

I used my 17mm Televue Nagler, yielding a magnification of about 165 for this image.

Mars at 11 July 2003 10:11:16 UT

I used my 8mm Televue Radian, yielding a magnification of 350 for this image. I backed the zoom off a bit for this one.

Mars at 11 July 2003 08:26:17 UT

This image and the next two were also collected in the wee hours. I used my 8mm Televue Radian, yielding a magnification of 350 for this image. I tried to set the focus, which may not have helped at all.

Mars at 31 July 2003 08:32:36 UT

On these three images, I tried to back the zoom off a bit.

Mars at 31 July 2003 08:47:51 UT

I like this one best of these three.