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Author Topic: Moonscape - More Pictures Added  (Read 1955 times)
swimaniac
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« on: March 16, 2008, 06:23:51 PM »
Some landscape of the moon taken last night. Experimenting with my telescope and a webcam.
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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 06:26:26 PM »
And another of Saturn. A series of 4 shots with varying adjustment of gain and "exposure".
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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2008, 08:02:34 PM »
cool!
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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2008, 08:13:06 PM »
the 4 shots taken using webcam n telescope?  respect
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2008, 08:16:04 PM »
Yep, I used a Philips Toucam and a Meade 8" SCT telescope. The moonshots were 20 secs and Saturn is from 20 to 40 seconds with corresponding reduction in gain.
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« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2008, 11:17:10 AM »
nice..... how many times manification did u have to get these closeups...
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« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2008, 11:59:23 AM »
My scope is 2000mm f10. No additional eyepiece(magnification) for the moon shots but I use a 2x barlow for Saturn which makes it 40000mm f20. Somehow I noticed that the magnification is higher using the webcam. I have tried (or rather my son) using the 40D and we were unable to achieve such magnification. Still trying to find out the reason.
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« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2008, 05:10:38 PM »
Powerful moon crater shots Bro!  Very Good Very Good Very Good
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swimaniac
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2008, 09:11:26 PM »
Here are more photos taken last night.
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« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2008, 10:25:11 AM »
Quote from: swimaniac on March 23, 2008, 09:11:26 PM
Here are more photos taken last night.








The saturn one is damn swees this time round....  Very Good
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« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2008, 05:29:17 PM »
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The saturn one is damn swees this time round....  Very Good

Thanks Ukay. I managed to get a 4 minute exposure this time and stacked just over 2000 frames to get the final image. Will be trying on Jupiter soon.
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« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2008, 07:04:29 PM »
Its quite amazing you can capture saturn in Singapore and such closeup of the moon.  I thought its not possible.   Embarrassed 
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« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2008, 07:05:39 PM »
u stacked 2000 images?!?!?! Is this like a super HDR process? Mind if u share a little how you do it? I am amazed!!!  Wow
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« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2008, 08:03:56 PM »
Saturn shot POWER!  respect  Very Good  respect
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swimaniac
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2008, 03:49:04 PM »
Quote from: ukay on March 29, 2008, 07:05:39 PM
u stacked 2000 images?!?!?! Is this like a super HDR process? Mind if u share a little how you do it? I am amazed!!!  Wow

The Iris video capture software I used captures 15 frames a second and over a period of 4 minutes, it is over 3000 frames. The processing software Registax automatically aligns, stacks and discards the "bad" frames.

It is a very simple process, just clicking on a button. The final processing is by using photoshop, adjusting the levels. The good thing about the capture and processing software is that they are free, downloded from the web.

I have actually improved on the picture of Saturn by adjusting the levels a little bit more below:
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