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26-04-2005

I managed to capture an image of Jupiter with my Meade LPI. I probably could have gotten a lot better image had it not become cloudy. You can see the great red spot transiting on the right side of the image.

21-02-2005

It's been a while since we had clear skies here, but on Monday I managed to get a few nice shots of the moon with a Canon 20D that my friend Jonathan Blevins has graciously loaned me. I bought a focal reducer for the scope specifically for imaging the moon. Here's one of the images (click on the image for the full size image):

13-01-2005

With Saturn at opposition tonight, I managed to capture a halfway decent image with my Meade LPI imager. This image was capture with a 2X Barlow lens:

I recently purchased a Meade LX90 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope from Astronomics in Norman, OK.
This site will document my adventures exploring the sky with it and provide a place to display images captured with it.