The Suffolk Sky

Getting to know the NexImage

I know it has been awhile since I have posted or even since I have been out to do any observing at all. Between weather, work, family, and life in general I have just not had the time to pull the scope out and do any real observing. Besides going out a time or two with the binoculars I have not even really looked up in the last month.

Lastnight the weather was good and the sky was clear. I set the C8 scope up in the early afternoon and decided that the focus of this session would be getting myself familiar with the Celestron NexImage Solar System Imager.

I spent a couple of hours in the early evening viewing Venus and Jupiter. I also spent a lot of time practicing focusing on the planets while the camera was attached and trying different configuration options in AMCap, which is the capture software that comes with the Celestron NexImage Solar System Imager, to figure out what works best. I did not get any images lastnight and I was not really trying to, but I did learn alot about the camera and the settings.

I also found a great quick set up guide with some basic instructions on configuring AMCap to use with the NexImage and I have stored it locally here Quick Guide to Capturing Images with the Celestron NexImage Solar System Imager. The originial document can be found at http://www.nexstarsite.com/download/ImagingWithNexImage.pdf

If the weather is nice next weekend I hope to get out an actually get a few images of Jupiter.  Then I will be able to have a go at processing them.