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| Equipment/software Helios 130R Newtonian Reflector on an EQ2 mount with RA Drive. Standard x2 Barlow (f14) and TeleVue x3 Barlow (f20). Home-made dual-speed electric focusser. Philips ToUCam Pro with 80A filter. AstroSnap and Registax. |
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 08.06.2004
- Venus TransitHandheld binoculars projecting an image onto white card, photographed with a digital camera.  |
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 08.06.2004
- Venus TransitImage colour enhanced in Photoshop (ultra saturated and darkened). |
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 23.02.2004
- JupiterClear skies, cool (4 deg.), seeing 4/10. Setup telescope, polar aligned using finderscope only and left to cool. Used AstroSnap software to drive the ToUCam Pro to capture 161 separate BMP files at f20. Processed in Registax using FFT(15), QF(5), Dyadic 2:2(16.4), 3:4(3.6), 5:16(1), 6:32 (0.9), Gamma 1, C:100, B:0. Resulting image colour balanced in Photoshop. |
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 24.01.2004
- SaturnClear skies, cool (3 deg.), seeing 4/10. Setup telescope, polar aligned using finderscope only and left to cool. Due to my rather inaccurate polar alignment this meant the target drifted out of view after about 3 mins but that was more than enough time to capture a series of frames. Used AstroSnap software to drive the ToUCam Pro to capture 480 separate BMP files at f20. (The target tracking in Astrosnap means you can crop the image capture area to make the captured files smaller and processing slightly quicker.) Opened the 480 BMPs into Registax and processed using FFT(25), QF(15), Dyadic 2:2(8.2), 4:8(1), 5:16(1.4), Gamma 0.7, C:100, B:11. Resulting image slightly sharpened and colour balanced in Photoshop. |
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 27.10.2003
- Mars3/10 seeing. 213 frames captured in Astrosnap at f14. Stacked in Registax and then oversampled, shadow and colour enhanced in Photoshop. |