Saturn Celestron NexStar 4SE Telescope RegiStax NexImage

Backyard Astronomy - Astrophotography Celestron
GOTO Alignment - Solar system align - Saturn
NexStar 4se Telescope
NexImage celestron Webcamera CCD Solar System imager VGA 640x480 with Barlow 2-x lens (compliments the Plossl eyepieces - from Celestron Eyepiece and Filter Kit - 1.25")
AMCap software for NexImage
Registax 5.1.9.2

Photos of Saturn - near Saturn opposition 03/20/2011 03/25/2011

Video duration 7 min (420sec), Frame Rate 5 frames/second, 2100 frames and 1 min 40 sec (100sec), Frame Rate 10 frames/second, 1000 frames.
Registax v5 - Align Default, Center Gravity, Gradient2; Drizzling Optimization, Wavelet - Gaussian Initial Layer 2, RGB Align - Estimate, Histogram stretch

A thin black gap in the rings - Cassini division is visible from amateur telescope celestron 4SE in the backyard.

Saturn, Rings, shadow, Cassini division, opposition, 2011, Telescope, Celestron NexStar 4SE, Astronomy, Astrophotography, Astrophoto, Backyard, video, Live video, Space, Science, Solar system, Registax, NexImage, webCamera, stacking, wavelets

NexImage and Celestron 4SE- Brooklyn Astrophotography

Brooklyn Astronomy and Astrophotography - Celestron 4SE and Celestron NexImage

NYC Astrophotography - Celestron 4SE and NexImage

Saturn NexStar 4SE RegiStax 6 NexImage Bahtinov mask and Vibration Suppression Pads

Saturn April 21, 2011. Weather was not good - it was windy and partially cloudy. To suppress vibration I used Celestron Vibration Suppression Pads. To made better focus - used  Bahtinov focus mask.

Saturn, Celestron NexStar 4SE, NexImage, Vibration Suppression Pads, Bahtinov mask, Astrophotography

Video duration 4 min 00 sec (240sec), Frame Rate 10 frames/second, 2400 frames.

Registax v6 - Align 3x3 area, 10  align points, Drizzling Optimization, Wavelet - Gaussian Initial Layer 3 Used Linked Wavelets with  1 and 2 layers, RGB shift

Photoshop - Crop, Luminosity Layer, Saturation,  Contrast, Unsharp Mask, save for Web device jpg

Saturn, Celestron NexStar 4SE, NexImage, Astrophotography

Video duration 4 min 30 sec (270sec), Frame Rate 10 frames/second, 2700 frames.

Registax v6 - Align 3x3 area, 11  align points, Drizzling Optimization, Wavelet - Gaussian Initial Layer 3 Used Linked Wavelets with  1 and 2 layers, RGB shift

Photoshop - Crop, Curves, Contrast, Unsharp Mask, Despeckle, save for Web device jpg 

Bahtinov mask, Celestron 4SE, Brooklyn Astrophotography

Celestron Vibration Suppression Pads

RegiStax 6 - Astrophotography Saturn - Testing new version v6

RegiStax 6 release 2 April 2011
Just downloaded the new version and tested it.
Installation was very simple and no problem for Vista. Interface is simpler and more intuitive.
I had some problem with multi alignment in version 5. In RegiStax 6 it works as magic -- no issue. New function - Linked Wavelet Layers -- is great! Speed fantastic. This is major improvements which allow make more experimental settings and find best parameters for final image.

Thanks for RegiStax all people who created, develop and support it! It's amazing free product!

For Saturn observation I used Celestron 4Se telescope, Barlow 2x, NexImage.
Hope it video helps and gives you ideas what you can do with Registax.

Webcam Astrophotography - Celestron 4SE NexImage - Brooklyn Astronomy

Saturn opposition, RegiStax 6, Celestron 4SE telescope

Saturn opposition 2011 - Celestron 4SE

Celestron NexStar 4SE Telescope, NexImage, 2x Barlow lens, UV/Infrared Cutoff Filter (1.25")

April 3, 2011 12:26AM (EST)


Video duration 7 min (420sec), Frame Rate 5 frames/second, 2100 frames.

Registax v6 - Align Default, 16 align points, Drizzling Optimization, Wavelet - Gaussian Initial Layer 3 Used Linked Wavelets with de-noise 1 and 2 layers, Zoom, RGB shift

Photoshop CS3 - Crop, Curves... - Auto with Highlight Color 210 210 210 , Save for Web Device jpg

Lowell Astronomical Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona

One of the oldest observatories in the United States - Lowell Observatory.

Lowell Astronomical Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona

Lowell Observatory -  Entrance Gate

Lowell Observatory - Cat Sculpture

Lowell Observatory - Old Telescope

Lowell Observatory - Pluto Telescope - 13-inch Astrograph

Lowell Observatory Spectrograph

Lowell Observatory Art

Welcome to Lowell Observatory

Lowell Observatory Today Program

Lowell Observatory Elementary and Middle School classes

Lowell Observatory SunDial

Lowell Observatory Saturn Lamp

Lowell Observatory Old  Car

Lowell Observatory Sculpture

Lowell Observatory Store

Lowell Observatory Store 2

Lowell Observatory Store 3

Lowell Observatory Electrical Calculator  Millionaire

Comparison UV/Infrared Cutoff filter vs. without filter - Celestron 4SE NexStar NexImage

Just bought UV/Infrared Cutoff filter and tried to test it.

Saturn photos with UV/Infrared Cutoff Filter and without filter, Celestron 4SE, NexImage

Upper photo - with UV/Infrared Cutoff Filter
Bottom photo - without filter

Astrophotography Equipment DSLR Webcam Collage

This is astrophotography collage with images of  solar corona,  saturn, jupiter, mars, solar and lunar eclipses, northern lights, milky way and photos of telescopes with photo camera and webcamera, binoculars.

Astrophotography Equipment DSLR Webcam Collage - NYC Astrophotography

Canon 60Da Astrophotography - Brooklyn NYC

This is my first photo by Canon 60Da. Roses and night sky (Saturn and Libra, Scorpius, Ophiuchus constellations).

Sky and roses Canon 60Da Astrophotography Brooklyn NYC

Canon 60Da astrophotography

Canon 60Da - Astrophotography Camera

Top 10 amateur astrophotography targets

There is my list of top 10 objects for beginners in astrophotography

1.    Milky Way
2.    Northern Lights and airglow and bioluminescence
3.    Star trails and/or photography of meteor shower
4.    Zodiacal Light
5.    Moon
6.    Sun
7.    Saturn
8.    Jupiter
9.    Solar Eclipse
10.   Lunar Eclipse

Milky Way View From Earth - Yellowstone

Night Scape Astrophotography Award Astronomyforum.net 3rd Quarter 2014

StarTalk radio chose my photo - Grand Teton Milky Way

Universe Today posted my image Yellowstone Astrophotography

Yellowstone Astrophotography photo was couple of days in Google News

NYC Solar eclipse photo was chosen by Yahoo news as Best-of Flickr week photo