Lunar Eclipse Bust

Well I guess the Cloud Gods were angry last night. I was certainly ready to capture my first eclipse images, but I will have to wait until 2010 before our next oppertunity. Here's two web cam images of stacked frames, one is 2500 frames of 5 different areas of the moon stitched and the other is 500 frames of the Copernicus Crater, from the night before.

Digital Magic

These are all images of around 600 frames each stacked and stitched for partial mosaics. The bottom image shows clues of the merge, I could not get it to blend just right.

Valentine Moon

Saturn

This image is by far my best yet on all the planets. Taken friday night, under good conditions with my web cam, this is 650 frames processed out of 1200. If you look close you can make out the Cassini Division. Now, if I had just a little bit more apeture...

Orion Nebula (M42)

This image consists of 36x15sec. exposures taken Friday night. This my first attempt stacking afocal images. The weather conditions was pretty good for viewing and imaging. It's not Hubble quality, but I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Now, if I had just a little more exposure time and a little bit more apeture...

Mars Jan. 27th

Here's 250 out of 1200 stacked web cam frames...seeing was horrid (1/5) The night before, seeing was a good 3/5 and I captured 24,000 frames of Mars and Saturn, but when I started to process the images, I goofed when saving them... I created a name for the files that the software could not recognize and all was lost. :(

The Ringed Planet

I couldn't wait to capture some web cam images of Saturn. Although seeing was a 2/5, I was still able to get some detail. I used QC Focus to capture 450 frames and processed 287 frames with Registax4.