MadMan's Astronomy and Astrophotography Pages - Photos of the Week
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| Active Optics from Starlight Xpress: |
| Equipment configurations for February (see below): Rainy nights are expensive. More equipment. More possible configurations. More organized field boxes (now have dedicated cases for Visual, DSO and Planetary in addition to Tools/Hardware, Finderscopes and Camera cases). |
| Photos of The Week - February, 2013 Mixed camera mosaics done with simultaneous side-by-side imaging. More SX-AO with C11" Edge. More rain.... |
| Tak FSQ-106 - Canon 60Da Camera: First attempt at using the Canon bayonett adapter in the Tak 106. Interestingly clean. Used LENR and processed only flats and bias. |
| Simultaneous, Multi-camera imaging and Registration. Canon 60Da, H694 and M25C Cameras with EOS lenses or Tak106 (at f/5) |
| Trio in Leo: Mised H694 Camera/EOS200mm lens/Ha filter + Canon 60Da/Tak106P. Registar, PixInsight, PS4. HaRed+GB method of RGB synthesis. |
| Planetary work: PGR-Flea3 video camera and C11" Edge HD were used to image Jupiter. Used EP projection with a Baader 8-24 ClickStop Zoom to create f/40 ratio. Seeing was not that good, but the concept is worthy vs. use of Barlow lens. Below Jupiter and moon Europa. |
| Something to do while imaging. Finally taking a look around..... Note the use of the old Orion TeleTrack with just a laser on it allows me to pinpoint exact DSO location with my binoculars. Nikon 12x40 AE's for my astronomy apps. |
| Orion Sword & Belt - 3 Camera, 3 Frame Mosaic: 15 hours of a three SX camera, 3 frame mosaic. M25C in the Tak106 (f3.6) for color (6h30m), H694 with a Canon EF70-200 @ 200/f5.6 for HaRed and Luminance (6h30m) and older H18 images from the Tak106 for detailed Ha. DSS, Registar, Maxim for mosaic, PixInsight others. |
| Eskimo Nebula: Sharpened my last attempt. M25C Camera. |
| 27mb full size file - darker |
| Small, darker (<2mb) |
| Messier 66: 3 hours of initial capture at f10/fl2800 using the SXVR-M25C camera and SX-AO unit. Unprocessed crop left (+spikes :)) and slight processing (right). |
| Beehive Cluster (22 minutes) and partial M42 capture (52m part of mosaic): Canon 60Da camera in Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f5.0 |
| Sample of Ha 3 frame mosaic |
| Full Size of above - 27mb |