I wish I had a better camera or a telescope for better pictures, don't be shy share yours - especially if they are better than mine!

 

I've been enjoying looking at Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in my 8" dob lately.

Here's a really bad cell phone pic of Saturn .

 

i tried getting something closer of mars a couple weeks ago, went with this instead, first time trying to get a moon shot. taken with canon 5D with 500mm f4. for about 2 seconds.

 

Here is one of our sun taken in H-Alpha light. Enjoy.

 

Space station went through the Western sky in Arizona last Friday

 

I tried getting a shot of Mars last night, but my hazy skies, manual dob, and cell phone combo wasn't really up to the task.



I could barely see more with my eyes. Just a bright pink disk with a very faint darker band around the equator.

 

I wish I had a neighbor with a good telescope, maybe next time I will be better prepared (in 15 years).

 

And make sure you buy a house in a dark skies area. Even a great telescope looks very underwhelming in bad skies.