All pictures taken with Casio QV2800UX Digital Camera & Meade LX90 Telescope

(Click on thumbnail links for detailed pictures)

 

 

Saturn

1/20s F3.2 IS0160 40mm eyepiece 20 images stacked in astrostack

 

 Jupiter animation

Approximately 2hrs of rotation on 26 frames (each frame made up of 50-60 images)

 

 Jupiter & 3 moons animation

11 frames from above pictures restacked to include moons

 

International space station

An animation built from 5 frames

 

Comet Ikeya Zhang & M5 (28-29/6/02)

6 exposures using MX916 CCD and 150mm lens piggy backed on LX90. Exposures were between 2 & 6 minutes.

 

Comet Ikeya-Zhang Animation (440K)

25 Frames captured using iso320 f3.2 60s exposures 3 minutes apart. Piggybacked camera at 8x optical zoom. Backgound stars used to re-align frames.

 

 Comet Ikeya-Zhang Animation (640K)

11 Frames captured using iso320 f3.2 30s exposures 2 minutes apart. Backgound stars used to re-align frames.

 

 M57

27 Images at IS0160 F3.2 60s each

 

 M104

29 Images at IS0160 F3.2 64s each

 

 Moonrise

Taken at 8* optical zoom

 

 M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy

24 images 64s each at iso320 F3.2 using Dicacam software to control the camera giving the extra 4 seconds exposure in bulb mode.

 

 M13

18 stacked images each 60s iso320

 

 M35

25 stacked images each 60s iso320

   
   
 

Jupiter

40 images taken in 2 minutes stacked in astrostack . Camera was at 8 * zoom F3.2 ISO80 1/50s 800 * 600 resolution.

 

Jupiter animation

over 200 images (12-15 images taken every 6 minutes for 2 hours) showing the Great Red Spot transiting across the planet and the shadow of Ganymede on the first 2 frames. Camera was at maximum zoom F3.2 ISO80 1/50s.

 

 M42

through LX90 8*60s F3.2 iSO160 40mm eyepiece (using camera interval function to take 1 picture every 3 mins. Images rotated and stacked in micrografx PP)

 

M42

Piggybacked camera 8x zoom 2*60s 2 stacked images

 

ISS

through LX90 8/12/01

 

Comet Linear WM1

single image 60s F3.2 ISO160 through Lx90

 

M45 (after processing) (1600 * 1200 pixels)

18 * 60s F3.2 ISO160 stacked using IRIS piggybacked camera 8X zoom

 

M45 (aligned and stacked only) (1600 * 1200 pixels)

18 * 60s F3.2 ISO160 stacked using IRIS piggybacked camera 8X zoom

link to : IRIS software by Christian Buil

link to : IRIS command used

 

Orion

60s piggybacked camera 1x zoom

 

Dumbell Nebula

4*60s F3.2 ISO160 images stacked in astrostack

 

Half Moon

1/80s F3.2 ISO80 40mm eyepiece

 

Vega

30s F3.2 ISO160 40mm eyepiece

 

 

 

 

 

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