Posts Made By: Craig Rhoads

I'm still new to this .... so please be gentle!!!
This image was from the other night on Feb 20th of Jupiter with Ganymede and it's shadow. It is with a Meade 10" Starfinder EQ with an Olympus C-4000z using a 9.5mm Lanthanum ep. I'm using a plumbing coupler from Home Depot to attach the camera to the EP for afocal eyepiece projection, along with the video out cable to my daughter's 13" color TV to help adjust the focus instead of using the LCD viewer on the camera.
The image is a series of 7 images stacked with Registax. Some gamma and color adjustments were made in Registax.
Not the greatest, but I'm getting there and having some fun while I'm at it. Besides.... keeps me outa trouble ;-)

This was last night using the same setup as in the Ganymede transit post. It is 9 images stacked. I did set the camera to take multiple images (sequential shooting). With this setting, the camera rattles off 4 images with one push of the shutter button.
The skies were not a clear but the temps were more tolerable.... a heatwave in comparison to last night!
I also got the date right this time!

I broke down and bought Photoshop. This was due to the all the image adjustments that I saw folks here in this forum making to their shots. (and some beautiful images too!)
This image is a composite of some of the digital afocal shots I have taken in the past few days. I was just goofing around to get used to all the tools in Photoshop. A member on another astronomy board gave me the idea. He stated that it looked as though the universe was smiling.

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http://dicknixon76.tripod.com/space/digital_astronomy.htm

Hiya Kirk,

I've been using an Olympus 3000 (till it wet the bed, then switched to the 4000) for nearly two years now. Lunar and planetary imaging is a bit easier than trying to capture deepsky objects with digital cameras. But you should be able to capture some beautiful images with your scope and camera. It just takes some patience and some experimentation. Below is a site I built about digital eyepiece projection astrophotography. It may not be the best out there on the web (and there are some great digital camera sites out there) but it's a place to start!

http://dicknixon76.tripod.com/space/digital_astronomy.htm

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RR