Category Archives: Astroimaging

    Supermoon 2016

    Super Moon 2016

    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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    ISS Solar Transit

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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.
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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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    “First Light:” A Waxing Gibbous

    Waxing Gibbous

    The first image taken with my newly pimped-out, 50-year-old, 8-inch Newtonian--hand-built back in the day. The telescope is now equipped with a computerized GOTO drive and auto-guiding system with a Canon 60Da DSLR camera. This image was taken at prime focus. (See below for full-resolution link.)

    [For a full-resolution image, click on this link: Waxing Gibbous.]

    • Telescope: Custom-built 8-inch Newtonian, f/7.5
    • Camera: Canon 60Da
    • Shutter speed: 1/100 s
    • ISO: 400
    • Processing: Registax 6, Gimp
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