This mosaic consits of 12500 out of 18000 web cam frames of 15 sections of the moon. Stacked using Registax4 and merged in PSE2.0 Click the image to see full size!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Big Scope
My family and I visited a local astronomy club observatory Saturday Night and all I can say is WOW! They have this pier mounted 14" Go-To SCT that produced the most amazing views I have ever seen. The combination of dark skies and that monster of a scope allowed me to actually see the spiral arms of M51 and with adverted vision I could make out the bridge!! We saw Saturn and 5 of it's moons too. When we got back late that night, I decided I would try to image Jupiter the next morning. So I got out the Mak, polar aligned it and took a peek at a few targets before I called it a night. Man, what a let down, after looking thru a 14" scope then my 5" it's definitely all about aperture.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Jupiter Today
This is the best 850 out of 1200 web cam frames at 10 fps stacked with Registax4. Captured this morning around 5AM with average seeing, extremely heavy near freezing dew on the lens and very clear skies.
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