Monday, March 28, 2011

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.

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NexImage and Celestron 4SE- Brooklyn Astrophotography

Brooklyn Astronomy and Astrophotography - Celestron 4SE and Celestron NexImage
NYC Astrophotography - Celestron 4SE and NexImage

Saturday, March 5, 2011

My Hobby is Astrophotography

What happens to astrophotographers. BEWARE!
Priceless....excellent videos...couldn't stop laughing...