E-Lyra double star

Just playing around with my QHY-5II color camera. Video image of this double, separated by about 2.5 arc seconds each pair. Nothing spectacular, just a cool double-double.

Rolando

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And here is a video stack of Vega (about 5000 frames combined), processed to show the diffraction pattern. Seeing was quite good but with the star jumping around about 3 -4 arc seconds. The video frame rate was set to 45 frames per second, which essentially froze the star, and Registax did the rest to line all the frames up perfectly.

Rolando

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Cool. Similar to one I captured many years ago with a C8 and my then new Nikon 4000 series point and shoot digital. It was uncannily useful for ep projection shots. I don't remember any details, just put the camera to the ep handheld and this is what came out. Oh that it was that easy ALL the time :-)

Walt

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Very nice, Rolando! The Vega shot looks like a textbook sketch! Which optics did you use?

Eric