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Last night at Astrosoc we finally managed to get a clear night. Great! Did some good observing. However the highlight of the night was that we were able to take astronomical images using our electronic eyepiece. It was lots of fun and something that the society has been planning to do for the past two years, but haven't! Another first for Astrosoc under our belt this year - great!

Earlier this week I managed to get the electronic eyepiece to work again, don't exactly know what was going wrong but after a little bit of playing around it started working. I then spoke to my fired Matt who works at Maplin about how to capture the images on to a laptop and he suggested I could get a USB video capture card. The conversation then went onto how he had an old one we could use in his old computer, so he brought it along and we managed to get it to work last night, lots of fun.

It was quite windy and so was hard to get any decent results as we could not magnify the image very much as the objects were bouncing around a lot.

Below are a few of the pictures including possibly the best one:

Saturn:

Jupiter:

For more of the images taken last night see http://students.bugs.bham.ac.uk/astrosoc/pictures/eyepiece.htm