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Posts Made By: Peter Morrison

July 5, 2009 11:00 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Backyard M57

Posted By Peter Morrison
I am still in the process of collecting more stuff so I can guide with this OTA, but am reasonably happy with the result.

Details:
Equipment:
Optics - Meade 8" ACF @ f/10
Mount - Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Camera - Canon 350D

Exposure Information:
104x30s @ ISO800, unguided

Processing in ImagesPlus 3.5, resize & crop in MS Digital Image suite.

Thanks for looking
Peter

July 16, 2009 03:46 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter - 7/12/2009

Posted By Peter Morrison
This is my first image of Jupiter in quite a while. Seeing was below average, but occasionally good.

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

Exposure Information:
1/33 second, 10fps, 120s AVI

Grade, align, stack and other processing in ImagesPlus 3.5. Resize & brightness tweak in MS Digital Image suite.

July 24, 2009 04:14 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter Impact - 7/21/2009

Posted By Peter Morrison
I am still not happy with the processing, but here it is. Seeing was good and bad. Played around with the camera settings too much, so the first four shots are different.

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

Exposure Information:
1/33 & 1/25 second, 10fps, 120s AVI

Grade, align, stack and other processing in ImagesPlus 3.5. Final composition in MS Digital Image suite.

July 28, 2009 03:18 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter, Europa & IO - 7/26/2009

Posted By Peter Morrison
A short animation of Jupiter showing the impact zone, Europa (left) and IO (right). The animation is made up of 21 frames shot over two hours.

Animation and capture detail here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2177&UserId=40

Peter

August 9, 2009 05:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter - 8/8/2009

Posted By Peter Morrison
Had a night of great to good seeing.

An animation of the red spot rotating into view is available here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2184&UserId=40

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

Exposure Information:
1/33 second, 10fps, 120s AVI

Grade, align, stack and other processing in ImagesPlus 3.5

September 17, 2009 03:18 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

M33

Posted By Peter Morrison
Taken 9/12/2009 from Tierra Del Sol.

Details:
Equipment:
Optics - Televue 85, 0.8x FR
Mount - Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Camera - Unmodified Canon 350D

Exposure Information:
25x300s @ ISO800

Processing in ImagesPlus 3.5, resize & crop in MS Digital Image suite.

Larger version here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2203&UserId=40

Thanks for looking
Peter

October 1, 2009 05:55 AM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Comet Linear 217P

Posted By Peter Morrison
I found comet Linear 217P lurking near NGC 1977 in some data I have been collecting. Linear 217P is a periodic comet with a 7.8 year orbit.

The comet was moving too fast for stacking, so I overprocessed all of the frames and created an animation.

Details and animation here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2212&UserID=40

Peter

October 13, 2009 02:58 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Uranus

Posted By Peter Morrison
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

October 30, 2009 03:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars - 10/24/2009

Posted By Peter Morrison
Mars shot from Tierra Del Sol on 10/24/2009 at around 5:30am. Mars is around 7.7 arc-seconds here. Seeing was at best average.

Details:
Optics - Meade 8" ACF, 3x TeleXtender, UV/IR
Mount - Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Camera - Philips ToUcam Pro II
Exposure - 1/33 sec @ 10fps, 180s AVI (800/1800 in final stack)

Peter

http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblog/Astroblog.asp?UserId=40

November 29, 2009 06:42 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Orions Sword

Posted By Peter Morrison
Orions sword imaged from Tierra Del Sol and Mt. Laguna.

Larger image with details here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2240&UserId=40

Full size crop:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2247&UserId=40

Peter

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