High res Straight wall

Hi all,

Well I've taken a bit of a break from the internet (sometimes it just sucks up too much time :S ) but after this mornings imaging I thought I'd share some of my images.
BTW after surfing this forum it seems I've missed quite a few awesome images!!
This morning the seeing was a passable 5-6/10 so I wanted to try my Schular IR passband filter. I screwed it into the 5X's Powermate and shot the Straight wall as my 1st object. This filter sucks up a lot of light so I had to set the exposure to 1/25 instead of the usual 1/250 or 1/500. Still it seemed to give me more sharp frames compared to no filter, the theory is the near IR is less prone to seeing degradations. I'm very happy with the result, esp the detail in Birt crater.
scope 18" Starmaster, Atik B&W webcam, 5X's powermate
used reg2 and Images Plus.

cheers

Mike Wirths

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Could you give me the info on your filter?
I'm hoping to do the same thing on Saturn.

Also, I'm trying to find good sources of info on the Atik. I'm just getting one (used). I know folks are having great success with them, but the support issue is troubling. So, any help there would be appreciated.

Thanks, Jeff.

Wow Mike! That is as good as it gets. Just a spectacular image. Awesome!! Congratulations!

Jim Phillips

Hi Mike,

Awesome! image, you have got some resolution there even detail in the rille below Brit, I'm glad to see some more images from you.
I hope to have first light with my new 18" Starmaster tomorrow morning, maybe I will have some images to post but probably not as good as the images you have posted today.
Now that I have enough aperture I may get an IR passband filter and try imaging with it.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Great detail & contrast Mike! well done!


Thanks for sharing!

Ivan
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