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Jean-Paul Longchamp writes of his Deep
Sky Imager
“For years, I spent my nights observing the awe-inspiring austral sky in Tahiti where the Milky Way is so brilliant you can read by its light. I always wanted to somehow peer deeper and deeper into this jewelry box and capture the stunning beauty of monstrous globular clusters like Omega Centauri and TU47, giant nebulae like Eta Carina and the Tarantula, and even delicate objects like Centaurus A. Last Christmas a friend of mine gave me a new Meade Deep Sky Imager. I thought, “ho hum, another webcam.” I couldn't have been more wrong. Experienced in webcam astrophotography, I approached my first DSI imaging test with a little skepticism. I slewed my Meade 10" Schmidt-Cassegrain to the Moon and let it auto-expose. My first image with the DSI of the Moon was excellent, showing great detail and contrast. Encouraged, I pointed next to M42 where after several minutes a most beautiful image of the Great Orion Nebula began to appear on my screen. I was now hooked! Since then, my nights here in Polynesia have never been the same. I can visit these deep sky jewels every evening, and even keep a souvenir of them.” |
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