This evening we could find the moon between Jupiter and Venus. A wonderful display in the sky. And it was very clear down to the horizon and a very bright Mercury was visible in the west.
Optics : StellarVue Nighthawk Achromat Refractor d=80mm f=480mm (f=1/6) : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12) Camera : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera : Philips ToUcam 740 Color WebCam Filter : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB add. optics : ED 2x Barlow lens : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available Mount : VIXEN GP with MT1 / Littlefoot Controller Guiding : PHD Aquisition : Robust Sony VAYO Pentium4 Notebook (Windows XP) or DELL D820 DualCore (Windows 7) Image Processing : ImagesPlus, NeatImage 7, PaintShopPro XI, PhotoShop LE 9, Registax 6, AviStack 2.0