First-Light Image of Moon through 130-mm APO Triplet Refractor

• Telescope: Stellarvue SVA130T-IS; f/5, f/7, or f/14
• Optical Configuration: 2x Tele Vue Powermate Barlow at prime focus (f/14)
• Camera: Canon 60Da
• Single exposure
• Shutter speed: 1/640 s
• ISO: 1,000
• Processing: Photoshop CS5

Supermoon on November 13, 2016 (Click on image for higher resolution.)

• Telescope: Custom-built 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
• Camera: Canon 60Da
• Single exposure taken at prime focus
• Shutter speed: 1/2000 s (500 microseconds)
• ISO: 640
• Processing: Photoshop CS5

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• 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.

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

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