Jupiter Moons and Red Spot - Astrophotography - Celestron 4SE

How does Jupiter hold up his trousers?

With an asteroid belt.

--Astronomy Jokes

Jupiter and Moons

Jupiter Moons and Red Spot Astrophotography Celestron 4SE - Brooklyn NYC

Explore Scientific 82° Series 8.8mm Eyepiece

I bought Wide angle  Eyepiece. Every time kids complain that they not able to see planets or stars in the telescope but later find right angle of view confirm that it is OK. I hope that now with wide angle Eyepiece problem will solved.

The  Explore Scientific has very nice box :)

Explore Scientific 82deg Series 8.8mm Eyepiece Box

Explore Scientific 82 Series 8.8mm Eyepiece Open Box

Constellation box of Explore Scientific 82 Series 8.8mm Eyepiece

Celestron 4SE and Explore Scientific 82 Series 8.8mm Eyepiece

Explore Scientific Eyepiece and Celestron 4SE

Explore ScientificWide Angle Eyepiece

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

Zhumell 20x80mm SuperGiant Astronomy Binoculars

Zhumell 20x80mm SuperGiant Astronomy Binoculars. Most impressive, though, is the sheer size of the 20x80 SuperGiants. The 80mm objective lens diameter is huge. See comparison with Celestron 4SE telescope.

Zhumell 20x80mm SuperGiant Astronomy Binoculars and Celestron 4SE

Zhumell 20x80mm and Celestron 4SE

SuperGiant Astronomy Binoculars

20x80mm SuperGiant Astronomy Binocular

ET Astrophotography - Astronomical Binocular and Super Moon

Coronado SolarMax II 60 Telescope

Coronado SolarMax II 60 Telescope

Coronado SolarMax II 60

Coronado SolarMax II 60

 Celestron 4SE and piggy back Coronado SolarMax II 60 Telescope

Celestron 4SE and piggyback Coronado Solarmax 60

Piggy-Back for Celestron 4SE allows easy to use GOTO for Coronado SolarMax II 60!

Coronado Solarmax 60 piggy-back

Celestron 4SE, Solarmax 60

Piggy-back Coronado 60 Celestron 4SE

Piggy-Back Mount for Celestron NexStar 4 (Item# BRKTPIG4)

Mars Celestron 4SE Telescope Backyard Astrophotography

Mars Celestron NexStar 4SE (102mm) NexImage, 2-x Barlow

 

Mars Celestron NexStar 4SE (102mm) NexImage, 2-x Barlow

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

Registax v6.1: 
Drizzling Optimization, Wavelet - Default Initial Layer 1, RGB shift, Resize Image 200%

Photoshop: 

Filter Unsharp Mask in Photoshop allows see more clear details which exist but still not so good visible after Registax (especially it is important for such small telescope as Celestron 4SE). But if Unsharp is too aggressive some artifact appears. So, first I decreased a little bit brightness to make possibility use aggressive Unsharp Mask. After that used Unsharp Mask which was still have some small artifacts. And smooth these artifacts with filter Noise Median radius 3. Finally I added a little bit magenta.

April 2, 2012 9:47pm

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

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

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

4se Telescope with Barlow t-Adapter 1 1/4 inches (93640), Erect Image Diagonal (94116) and Canon EOS 40D

Celestron  NexStar 4se Telescope with Barlow t-Adapter 1 1/4 inches (93640), Erect Image Diagonal (94116) and Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR Camera

Total Lunar Eclipse December 21, 2010 Winter Solstice

Total Lunar Eclipse December 21, 2010
New York, NY Celestron 4SE telescope. All exposures were taken with Canon 40D. Backyard astronomy and digital astrophotography. Weather in New Your during the eclipse time was fantastic, but a little bit cold.

Total Lunar Eclipse Celestron NexStar 4SE Canon 40D

The eclipse of December 21 2010 Tuesday morning was the first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern Winter Solstice - the shortest day and longest night of the year (Southern Summer Solstice) since 1638 (first time in 372 years), and only the second in the Common Era. That will not happen again until 2094.

The eclipse was the first total lunar eclipse in almost three years, since the February 2008 total lunar eclipse. It is the second of two lunar eclipses in 2010.

NYC Total Lunar Eclipse Celestron 4SE Canon_40D Brooklyn Astronomy

Total Lunar Eclipse Celestron 4SE Canon_40D Brooklyn Astronomy

Total Lunar Eclipse Celestron 4SE Canon_40D Brooklyn Astronomy

Total Lunar Eclipse Celestron 4SE Canon_40D Brooklyn Astronomy

Partial eclipse begins 1:33am EST
Total eclipse begins 2:41am EST
Middle of eclipse 3:17am EST
Total eclipse ends 3:53am EST
Partial eclipse ends 5:01am EST

Blue Moon November 21 2010 Celestron 4se Canon 40D

Color full moon, blue moon, Canon 40D, Celestron 4SE

Blue Moon (November 21, 2010) - Year 2010
Canon EOS 40D camera and Celestron NexImage 4SE telescope - Backyard astronomy Digital Full Moon Photography

A blue moon can refer to the third full moon in a season with four full moons. The earliest recorded English usage of the term "blue moon" was in a 1528.
In 2010 Blue Moon was November 21.

There are 4 photos of the Blue Moon.
First photo was colored in Photoshop.

1. Neutralize the colors (the median of the values of R, G and B is the same).
2. Create two duplicated layers.
3. First layer set as luminosity
4. Saturate the second layer.
5. Make invisible main background layer.
6. Play games with best parameters
So those colors are real, and the only difference is that they've been exaggerated a bit :)

Second photo: Blue Moon - White Balance: Tungsten light
Third photo: White-Black Moon - White Balance: Cloudy, twilight, sunset
Fourth photo: Yellow-Red Moon - White Balance: Shade

Blue Moon Celestron 4SE Canon 40D Brooklyn Astronomy

Full Moon Celestron 4SE Canon 40D Brooklyn Astronomy

Full Moon Celestron 4SE Canon 40D