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Originally Posted by Sea Six
Got any pictures from our solar system?
Mars? Jupiter? Our Moon?
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Nothing impressive. It's sort of counter intuitive, but the equipment required to get good images of planets is very different than what's needed for galaxies and other deep space objects. It takes a very powerful scope to get anything more than a red dot when shooting Mars. And the more powerful the scope the bigger and heavier it is which in turn requires a heavier and more accurate (read expensive) mount.
The moon is a little easier. It's about 1/2 a degree in diameter in the sky. Andromeda is appears 6 times that. With my rig, I can almost fill the frame with Andromeda but the moon looks very small and planets just look like stars.
A couple years ago I took this picture of a "super moon" but it's very tightly cropped. A large print wouldn't look very good. This was taken with a 600mm lens. My telescope rig is 537mm I think.
