From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: April 30, 2008 6:31:54 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Jupiter..

Hi everyone, Last night I got my first view of Jupiter coming back from my IS DBK 21A F04.AS to the screen. I`ve had troubles with focusing which has been solved pretty well by putting my old LCD monitor out near the focusing knob on the scope. I don`t have a lap-top which I know a lot of you have, so have had to use a long VGA cable. Jupiter didn`t come into view until I`d done some nudging back and forth with the hand control on the Celestron 4SE I was using and set the exposure to 533.33 ms. I must read up in the manual what this means exactly and any other advice! I didn`t manage to bring the "stripes" into view but was pleased I`d finally been able to find an object smaller than the moon. Hopefully the view will improve with my C10-NGT when I use it. Does anybody have tips for optimal exposure settings for planetary imaging. I realise these would change as to circumstances but would be thankful for any input. Yours, Mark Gaffney.