Photos of objects in the night sky

Left: This series of 3 photos shows the eclipse on Tuesday, 28th August 2007. The photos were taken over 2.5 hours.

Taken with a 4.1Mpx digital camera, freehanded to the eyepiece of a F6.3 (stopped down from F10) of a Celestron CGE 1400 telescope, and a time exposure of 8 seconds.

The Mercury transit occurred on the early morning (just at sunrise) on 9th November 2006. The photo at left shows the planet Mercury between earth and the sun. There are 2 spots on the face of the Sun. Mercury is the smallest of the 2.

Left: A view of the nucleus and coma of Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught. This photo was taken on 22nd January 2007 on a Sony Cybershot digital camera with an 8 second lapsed shutter release, hard mounted on the 42mm x 2" eyepiece of the 14" telescope.

Left: The latest addition to the observatory is a Celestron CGE 1400 Cassagrain telescope on a German equatorial mount with computerised "GO-TO" facilities. This means that celestial objects can be found by the telescope on the command of a keyed in number or name of the object to view. This can be a Messier catalogue number, a NGC number etc..

The above images were taken on February 27th, 2005 where there was an occultaion
of the planet Jupiter by the near full moon. The first photo was taken at 9.42pm (daylight saving time).
At the latitude in SA, we weren't treated to a total occulation,
probably 2/3rds of the planet was blocked out by the moon. By 10.30pm, Jupiter
was once again fully in view. Click on images for an enlarged view.

Click on image for larger view Venus Transit - 8th June 2004 Taken without an orange filter early in the transit at around 3pm	Click on image for larger view Venus Transit - Taken about 3.45pm	Click on image for larger view Venus Transit - approx 4.30pm * The Venus Transit photos were taken on a Sony Digital camera. The telescope was a 60mm refractor, with a solar filter attached.
Click on image for larger view Venus Transit - Later again The sun set before Venus had traversed the total width	Click on image for larger view MOON This photo of the moon was taken with a Sony DSC-S85 4.1 megapixel digital camera, hand held.	Click on image for larger view PLANET JUPITER imaged with a celestron ccd camera mounted on the CGE 1400 telescope on 5th. June 2007. Dr. George Palteglou was the officer in charge
Click on image for larger view SATURN Saturn, captured with a Sony Cybershot 4.1Mpx camera close coupled to a Celestron CGE 1400 telescope, with a magnification of 560X. January 2007. The planet was 1,400,000,000Kms from us at the time	Click on image for larger view Solar Eclipse photographed December 4th 2002. Viewed through 12xMAG Finderscope	Click on image for larger view Sola Eclipse 10 minutes earlier than previous photo. Note cloud and sun spots.

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Time exposure by nephew Nigel Zimmermann. South Celestial Pole above observatory dome.
As our photography expertise improves, we will update the gallery of images!
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