Uranus

Started by cosmoscrazy, 10/13/2009 02:58AM

Posted 10/13/2009 02:58AM | Edited 10/14/2009 03:21AM Opening Post

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Uranus from 10/10/2009.

Equipment:
Optics - Meade 8" ACF, 3x TeleXtender
Mount - Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Camera - Philips ToUcam Pro II

Exposure:
1/25 second (max gain), 10fps, 180s AVI

Image Processing:
Registax 5: Align, optimize, resample (1.5x), stack & rgb align
ImagesPlus 3.8: Wavelets and other processing.
MS Digital Image Suite: Crop, JPEG conversion

Regards,
Peter

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Posted 10/13/2009 04:16PM #1

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Peter, excellent image! How many frames were included in the final stack? You must have had good seeing to capture that one. Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

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Posted 10/14/2009 03:01AM #2

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Very cool! You've given me a new target to shoot for, as I haven't ever tried Uranus before....beautiful color, btw

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Posted 10/14/2009 11:39AM #3

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Very pretty!!

This is just the type of stuff that makes me think seriously about getting into solar system imaging.

Jeff

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Posted 10/15/2009 02:37AM #4

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Nice job on a tough target! Color and shape look good. There's something relaxing about the colors of Uranus and Neptune.

Jason H.

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