Hi all,
Well I finally got my new B&W Atik instruments cooled webcam from the UK. I choose this as it would allow me to do long exposure shots on bright DSO's such as planetaries, as well as lunar shots.
Thurs night finally cleared enough to give it a test drive, but the seeing was atrocious, Jupiter barely showed the N & S Eq belts! Still I shot a sequence on the moon using a 3X's barlow on my 18" Starmaster. The sequence looked very clean, almost no decernable grain. The pic is a stack of 30/600 done in Reg2, captured in K3CCD tools. Its the crater Albategnius, right beside Ptolameus (I wanted to do it but the FOV was too small.). Maybe the next 2 nights will give better seeing, it sure can't get much worse!
cheers
Mike Wirths
Well I finally got my new B&W Atik instruments cooled webcam from the UK. I choose this as it would allow me to do long exposure shots on bright DSO's such as planetaries, as well as lunar shots.
Thurs night finally cleared enough to give it a test drive, but the seeing was atrocious, Jupiter barely showed the N & S Eq belts! Still I shot a sequence on the moon using a 3X's barlow on my 18" Starmaster. The sequence looked very clean, almost no decernable grain. The pic is a stack of 30/600 done in Reg2, captured in K3CCD tools. Its the crater Albategnius, right beside Ptolameus (I wanted to do it but the FOV was too small.). Maybe the next 2 nights will give better seeing, it sure can't get much worse!
cheers
Mike Wirths
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