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A short telescope tour of deep-sky sights in and around the Big Dipper

The awkward truth about the effectiveness of setting circles fitted to small telescopes. Erratum: The scale of the AA road map referred to is in fact 1:500000 and not 1:500. So what’s another 499500 between friends? RJD Presented by Robert J Dalby Produced by ARB Media Productions for The Astronomy and Nature Centre

This is a video of my astrophotography shots, titled as “The Wonders of the Universe”. It features the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the Sun, the Moon, as well as deep-sky images of the Orion Nebula and Sirius. I have only started out a few months ago, so please be fair in your comments. The images in this video are taken with a Celestron Powerseeker 127EQ, and a Samsung S760 compact camera. The Solar images also have an Astrosolar Mylar Filter. Here is the timeline from Start to Finish: 0:00: Title Sequence 0:34: The Sun 0:42: Solar Eclipse 0:50: Venus Video 1:16: Venus Processed 1:30: Third Quarter Moon image 1:37: Third Quarter Moon Video 1:52: Montes Apenninus Closeup 2:02: Crater Tycho Closeup 2:17: Mars Image 2:27: Jupiter Video 3:03: Jupiter and Moons. Processed 3:14: Saturn Video 3:23: Saturn and Titan, Processed 3:44: Orion Constellation Lines 3:59: Orion Nebula 2-second exposure 4:04: Orion Nebula 6-second exposure 4:06: Orion Nebula 3*8-second exposure 4:08: Orion Nebula Labelled 4:16: Canis Major Constellation Lines 4:29: Sirius 8-second exposure 4:34: Sirius size comparison with the Sun