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I took a photo of the International Space Station through my telescope. It is my first, so it is okay, but I am pleased. It was not easy, since it was moving fast. Try catching something moving at 17,000 mph!

That's awesome!!! My buddy has got a 12 inch telescope that we toy around with. Saturn and Jupiter look AMAZING through it. You can see the moons circling around them.. This pic is really neat. We discussed getting a camera to mount to it.

Ptarmigan wrote:I took a photo of the International Space Station through my telescope. It is my first, so it is okay, but I am pleased. It was not easy, since it was moving fast. Try catching something moving at 17,000 mph!

Try taking a photo of a comet, Ptarmigan, because they travel through space at well over one hundred miles per hour.

sleetstorm wrote:

Ptarmigan wrote:I took a photo of the International Space Station through my telescope. It is my first, so it is okay, but I am pleased. It was not easy, since it was moving fast. Try catching something moving at 17,000 mph!

Try taking a photo of a comet, Ptarmigan, because they travel through space at well over one hundred miles per hour.

Comets are much easier to photograph as they don't move much compared to the background stars over an exposure time of a few minutes. I took some photos of Comet Hale-Bopp back in the spring of 1997. They were taken in a cemetery in Latium, TX (NW of Bellville). My camera was an Olympus OM-1 mounted piggyback on my Criterion Dynascope 6" reflector with clock drive.







My car and telescope in a field of bluebonnets next to the cemetery:

Those are some good pictures of Hale-Bopp's comet, wxman57.