mixed goodie bag from the past couple of weeks.

here are a bunch of photos i've taken over the last month and a half. i haven't gotten around to uploading these here because to be pretty honest i'm not all that familiar with the summer night sky.  i feel like the biggest sky noob even talking about it, so let's just get to the pics.

great nebula in orion (M42). this time in colour, yay!

canon 60D / iso 5000 / f/5.6 / 4sec @ 250mm (first image) / 3.2sec @ 300mm (second image)

you may have to fullsize this image to appreciate its content, but that's jupiter and the four galilean moons io, callisto, ganymede, and europa. callisto is the dimmest of the four, but i'm not sure how to ID the others :P here's an image from wikipedia to help place them:

none of the above were taken using a telescope! couldn't finish without something taken through the dobsonian though, so here's a happy jupiter. i couldn't expose it enough to get the moons in there too, or i'd lose all the banding detail on the planet. nonetheless, enjoy!

jupity mcjupe jupe joopin' around in space.

canon 60D / iso 800 / f/5.6 / 1/20sec.

no penumbral lunar eclipse photo this time around because to be honest, it sucked.

that's all for now :)