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Waning Gibbous Moon Normally we see the moon
illuminated from the other side. However, in the early morning
this view awaits moon watchers. This image is a mosaic of 27
panels created from 16 sub-frames each (for a total of 432
shots). This image would have been nearly 140 MegaPixels
had I chosen to process full frame shots. Instead I choose to
process half sized images to keep myself sane. As it stands that
still resulted in a 35MP image. Click on the image to see some
larger versions and backdrop sized jpegs. The image data was
taken 02 September 2007. The color differences between this
image and the image below have much to do with the differences
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Waxing Gibbous Moon An image made from
combining 216 "full frame" shots the evening of May 07th, 2006. |
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Mars Taken at 2:48AM EDT (6:48
UT) August 15, 2003. This image was taken on the
night of the great 2003 Eastern US Blackout.
22.97" in diameter. VirtualDub was used for
image capture. 399 frames out of 1200. Click on
the image for details.
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Mars July 17, 2003 at 9:11UT.
This is the best 512 frames out of 1200. Mars is
19.62" in diameter. Click on the image for
details.
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Saturn This image is a
composite of 199 images captured from my Logitech
QuickCam 4000 Pro (Exp 1/10sec, Gain 50%). The
images were captured using AVIedit and a
"lossless" codec. The images were
stacked and processed using Registax. Taken
February 13th, 2003 at a 6600mm F.L. Seeing was
4/10 or 5/10. (10" SCT & APO barlow.)
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Jupiter and Great Red Spot This
image is a composite of 454 images captured from
my Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro (Exp 1/10sec, Gain
50%). The images were captured using AVIedit and
a "lossless" codec. The images were
stacked and processed using Registax. Taken
February 13th, 2003 at a 6600mm F.L. Seeing was
4/10.(10" SCT & APO barlow.)
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Jupiter and Europa, Ganymede, Io This
image is a composite of 70 images captured from
my Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro (Exp 1/75sec, Gain
25%). The images were captured using AVIedit and
a "lossless" codec. The images were
stacked and processed using Registax. Taken
February 13th, 2003 at a 2700mm F.L. Seeing was
4/10 or 5/10. (10" barlow.)
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Saturn This image is a
composite of 149 images captured from my Logitech
QuickCam 4000 Pro. The images were processed
using AVIedit and stacked using Registax. Taken
February 9th, 2003 at 2600mm F.L. This is among
my first attempts to use a webcam for planetary
work.
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Jupiter (Europa and Io) This
image is a composite of over 1800(!) images
captured from my Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro. The
images were processed using AVIedit and stacked
using Registax. Taken February 7th, 2003 around
10pm EST. Approx. 2600mm F.L.
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Jupiter (with Io's shadow) This
image is a composite of over 1000 images captured
from my Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro. The images
were stacked using Registax. Taken February 7th,
2003 around 11pm EST. Approx. 2600mm F.L.
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M4, Mars,
& Antares M4,
Mars, & Antares all got together in July 2001
in the awesomely beautiful Antares Region. Mars
is the bright "star" in the lower left
corner, Antares is the second brightest star, and
M4 is the smudgeball just to the
right of Antares.
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Venus on the Water At the very beginning of twilight
on July 14, 2001, Venus & Saturn made this
awesome seen. The Pleides also help to round out
the image. Click here or the image for a better view.
. Kodak Supra 400 film.
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Five Planets Before sunrise on July 14, 2001,
five planets were in position to be placed in the
same frame of my camera. Four of the five planets
are Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury. Can you
guess the 5th? If not click here or the image. Also visible are
some stars in that region of the sky, including
Albebaran and Elnath. Kodak E200 slide
film.
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The Waxing Gibbous
Moon Taken on December 18, 1999, I was very
pleased with the outcome of this shot, in fact, I
had 12 or so excellent shots just like this one
with slightly different exposures and choosing
the "winner" was really tough. Captured
on Kodak E100VS and pushed one stop. Taken using
my LX6 with f/6.3 focal reducer. Exposure time
was 1/125 of a second.
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Saturn (underexposed) This
image was taken with the same exact setup as the
Jupiter image just below, of course if I had to
do it over again, I would go for a 2 to 4 second
exposure. Still, there is some cloud detail and
even a hint of detail in the rings. 1 second
exposure on Kodak E100VS push processed one stop.
This was an eyepiece projection using my 10' LX6
and a Meade 9.7mm Superplossl with about 90mm of
extention. Also see my first Saturn astrophoto
further down the page.
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Jupiter This image does a
fairly good job of showning what Jupiter actually
looked like through the eyepiece that night
(December 18, 1999). While I have seen much
better views then this they are very rare in my
area due to astmosphereic turbulence. Overall
though, I was pleased with the outcome. 1 second
exposure on Kodak E100VS push processed one stop.
This was an eyepiece projection using my 10' LX6
and a Meade 9.7mm Superplossl with about 90mm of
extention. Please compare this to my first
Jupiter photo below.
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Earth II ...But I did take
this one! I captured this image from a low
flying space craft that I was in at the time.
It was only flying about 7 miles high near
Winslow, AZ. Look here for more information about
Meteor
Crater. Photo taken with my trust X-700 and
28-105 zoom at 35000 feet and 550 MPH.
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The Sun Taken August 1 1999 at
2:00 pm from New Buffalo, Michigan. This is a
1/125 sec exposure on Kodak PJ400 with Minolta
SRT-102 at prime focus on my Meade ETX 90EC with
a Meade f6.3 focal reducer (yielding an effective
focal length of about 790mm). A Thousand Oaks
type 2+ filter was used. This image was scanned
from a 4 x 6 inch print & cropped. This was
one frame of nearly 100 practice shots I took to
dial in my setup for a trip to Austria to observe
the 1999 Total Solar Eclipse. Click here for a listing of
eclipse times and towns in Austria.
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Saturn. This image
was taken on 24 Noverber 1998 was my first ever
attempt to photograph another planet. Taken with
a 10" f/10 Meade LX6 with two 2x
teleconverters with a Minolta SRT-102 for an
effective focal length of 10000mm @ f/40.
Exposure was 1/2 sec on Kodak Ektapress
Multi-Speed (PJM-2). Not bad for a first try!
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Jupiter. This
image was taken on 24 Noverber 1998 was one of my
first ever attempts to photograph another planet.
Taken with a 10" f/10 Meade LX6 with two 2x
teleconverters with a Minolta SRT-102 for an
effective focal length of 10000mm @ f/40.
Exposure was 1/8 sec on Kodak Ektapress
Multi-Speed (PJM-2). Not as good as the Saturn
effort.
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Full Moon. This
image of the full moon was
taken on 11 April 1998. 10" f/10 Meade LX6
at prime focus with a Minolta SRT-102. Exposure
was 1/125 sec on Kodak Ektapress Multi-Speed
(PJM-2). Finally this image was scanned using my
HP Photosmart scanner.
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Earth O.K.! O.K.! So I didn't
take this one! But here is what NASA had to say
about it. "This is an Apollo 17 hand-held
Hasselblad picture of the full Earth. This
picture was taken on 7 December 1972, as the
spacecraft traveled to the moon, the last of the
Apollo missions. A remarkably cloud-free Africa
is at upper left, stretching down to the center
of the image. Saudi Arabia is visible at the top
of the disk and Antarctica and the south pole are
at the bottom. Asia is on the horizon is at upper
right. The Earth is 12,740 km in diameter.
(Apollo 17, AS17-148-22725)."
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