The Moon 16th Dec. 23:58 UTC

Taken with Pentax 750z camera at 32mm EP on my C9.25.

Saturn 17th Dec.

Alhazen

Condorcet West

Helicon & Le Verrier

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/info.shtml?374

Amateur Astronomer Jokes

Haha... just found this site:-

http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Jokes.html

Tycho 11th Dec.

World Wind simulation using Clementine data.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Copernicus 11th Dec.

Montes Recti and Alpine Valley

Fra Mauro - Apollo 14 Landing Site

Plato 10th Dec 2005

Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel and Rupes Recta

3 images stitched together.
2XBarlow lens.

Clavius

4 images stitched together.
Images taken with 3XBarlow lens.

Hyginus Rille closer

The Straight Wall

Tycho

Three views of Copernicus 10th dec.

Top; 21:24 UTC, Best 40% of 623 frames, Fair seeing.

Middle; 20:30 UTC, Best 40% of 630 frames, Fair seeing.

Bottom; 21:02 UTC, Best 40% of 535 frames, Fair seeing.

Apollo 15 Landing site.. best yet

Mount Hadley casts a long shadow

Albategnius

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac77/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/images/img/iv_101_h2.jpg

Hyginus & Rille

The site for the cancelled Apollo 19.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac59/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/images/img/iv_102_h2.jpg
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/lo-cgi-bin/frameListPage.pl?mission=4&frame=097
www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/lavatubes_ccc.htm

Mars 6th Dec.

Had a few good nights recently here in Wiltshire. These are all taken using a Celestron red #25 filter, using a Tele Vue 3X Barlow (nicked from my mate Ray, while I've got all his gear round my house at present ;-))
They are the best 300 odd frames taken from about 1500. The seeing got better later on, although there was fog/mist in the air.

Saturn and it's moons

I don't seem to get the same colours as everyone else when I image Saturn.
This is my Toucam Pro without any filters, and hardly any processing... any ideas anyone?

Mars 5th Dec.

Star pattern from collimating

Mars 4th Dec.

Bob's Knobs

I just got a set of Bob's Knobs from the States.
I managed to install them in about two minutes, by pointing the scope down, and taking out and replacing one screw at a time.
I then roughly collimated by standing about 5 feet from the scope and looking with one eye until the mirrors were straight. As per instructions from 'Bob'.
I've just been out tonight to do a more precise collimate. First thing... it wasn't far out anyway, but! using Bob's Knobs is a dream. I know that you are not supposed to use a diagonal. But with it, I managed to collimate by just looking through the EP and twiddling the 'Knobs'. It was bloody great. You can tell precisely how tight the screws are, and can get a real feel for it.
It's gone cloudy now, so I wasn't able to finish the job, but it should be piss easy from now on.

Thanks Damian Peach for the suggestion.

http://www.damianpeach.com/

and Bob for the knobs.

http://www.bobsknobs.com/

Palus Somnii (The Marsh of Sleep)

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-M-0962
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac61/
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/lo-cgi-bin/frameListPage.pl?mission=4&frame=066