Mark K
Canis Major
LX200GPS UHTC/SMT
Posts: 75
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Post by Mark K on Sept 24, 2005 10:25:38 GMT
As it was reasonably clear last night, and the first night in many, i got out my scope again, and having just aquired a new camera adapter for my Canon 20D, i hooked it up to the Meade to take some photos of the moon. The results are on my gallery, marksnigallery.fotopic.net. I was fairly pleased with the results, although attempts at Mars and Pleiades did not fare so well , i will have to get my techniques bettered i think! Any advice welcome, and comments on the moon photos.
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Post by Martin Mc kenna on Sept 24, 2005 16:33:35 GMT
They look great to me Markk!
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Post by NeilP on Sept 25, 2005 7:05:21 GMT
Great looking Moon pics there Mark, they show some great detail.
Neil
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Post by johnmc9929 on Sept 25, 2005 10:59:11 GMT
You should be very pleased with those images Markk. Are those the raw images? and were they taken at the prime focus of the scope?
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Post by paulevans on Sept 25, 2005 11:13:49 GMT
Those are excellent pictures Mark. They a re sharper than anything I get at the prime focus of my ETX 105 - I still get the best Moon pictures with either afocal coupling of my compact digital or of course the webcam for much closer detail.
I also like the Fotopic gallery concept. In fact I like it so much I'm going to have one for display of my more conventional photography which I've been doing on and off since I was a kid, and rather more seriously for the last 16 years. So watch this space!
Clear skies,
Paul.
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Mark K
Canis Major
LX200GPS UHTC/SMT
Posts: 75
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Post by Mark K on Sept 28, 2005 19:51:29 GMT
You should be very pleased with those images Markk. Are those the raw images? and were they taken at the prime focus of the scope? Thanks John, yes they were taken at prime focus with a camera adapter/T-mount and were processed in Photoshop to adjust brightness/contrast and sharpened slightly. The whole of the moon wouldn't fit into 1 frame of the camera, so all the individual images were combined in PS's Photomerge facility to produce the full ( or half ! ) Moon. I also have a LPI CCD imager which i have yet to try out.
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