ISS Solar Transit

  • Telescope: Custom-built, 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
  • Camera: Canon 60Da at prime focus
  • Video imaging mode: 60 fps, 640 x 480 pixels
  • Shutter speed: 1/4000 s
  • ISO: 800
  • Processing: Photoshop CS5

(Cirrus clouds courtesy of Murphy.)

Composite Image of ISS Solar Transit (Image detail of ISS obscured by cirrus clouds.)

  • Telescope: Custom-built, 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
  • Camera: Canon 60Da at prime focus
  • Video imaging mode: 60 fps, 640 x 480 pixels
  • Shutter speed: 1/4000 s
  • ISO: 800
  • Processing: Photoshop CS5, with individual video frames blended and flattened into a single image.
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Saturn Nears Opposition

Saturn nears opposition on June 1, 2016, 843 million miles from Earth.

  • Telescope: Custom-built 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
  • Camera: Canon 60Da
  • Video imaging mode: 60 fps, 640 x 480 cropped sensor; 20 s (1,200 frames)
  • Shutter speed: 1/80 s
  • ISO: 4000
  • Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS5
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Mars: Ready for its Closeup

Mars on June 2, 2016

Mars, just 47 million miles away on June 2, 2016, shows off its white polar caps.

  • Telescope: Custom-built 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
  • Camera: Canon 60Da
  • Video imaging mode: 60 fps, 640 x 480 cropped sensor; 20 s (1,200 frames)
  • Shutter speed: 1/500 s
  • ISO: 800
  • Processing: Registax 6, Photoshop CS5
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