MadMan's Astronomy and Astrophotography Pages - Photos of the Week
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| Active Optics from Starlight Xpress - M25C camera in a Celestron C11 Edge HD SCT Telescope: |
| Equipment configurations for February (see below): Nothing new this month so far.... |
| Photos of The Week - March, 2013 Mixed camera mosaics, More SX-AO with C11" Edge. More rain.... ... a monthly summary of my progress with the hobbies of astrophotography and photography |
| Tak FSQ-106 - SXVR-M25C Camera: Spare time imaging between objects.... |
| Wide-field Mosaics - 6 panel - Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebula Region - H694 and Tak106 @ f3.6 |
| Planetary work: One good night experimenting with Eye Projective Video imaging using a Baader 8-24 Click Stop zoom EP. |
| Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebula Region - H694 Camera, Ha filter, 6 Frame Mosaic: A little over 7 hours (avg of only 1 h 15 minutes per panel). Takahashi FSQ-106EDXiii @ f3.6, SXVR-H694 Camera, Astrodon 5nm Hydrogen Alpha narrow band filter. Guided with Lodestar in a Vario 60mm finder. G11 mount with Gemini 2. Working on RGB version with Ha for luminance. |
| Sunflower Galaxy: Low time exposures in a heavy LP environment - but AO unit keeps stars nice and round. No processing per se. Have to add lots of time. |
| Small crop of a fully stretched image. |
| Messier 106: Low time exposures in a heavy LP environment - but AO unit keeps stars nice and round. No processing per se. Have to add lots of time. |
| Markarian's Chain: Tak 106 @ f3.6. M25C Camera. 3 h15m. |
| Gas Only extraction action I wrote for PS4 |
| Full Size of above - 10 mb |
| Tak FSQ-106 - H694 Camera - Catch up processing: Narrowband, CFMT (Red=Ha, Green=Oiii, Blue=Sii) presentation of Sharpless - 290 |
| SH2-290 (Abell 31) 5 hours: |
| Saturn and Tethys: Flea3, f25 using EP projection. |
| A screen snip-it from TheSkyX. While I was capturing video at f25 and up, I noticed this nice gathering of Saturn's moons. That led me to remove the EP and image at prime to capture the moons as well. |
| Saturn and 5 Moons: |
| Saturn and 5 Moons: Flea3, f10 - prime focus - with the moons labeled. |
| Rosette and Cone Nebula Region - Simultaneous imaging - H694 Camera with EOS lens @ 200 fl + M25C Camera in the Tak @ fl380 - HaRGB+HaLum: 12 hours of data captured in 6 hours elapsed time. |
| Gas Only extraction action I wrote for PS4 |
| Gas Only extraction action I wrote for PS4 |
| Large jpeg 20 mb |
| Small 5mb |
| Medium size - jpeg 8 mb - best all around color with help from Robert Chozick |