I captured DVD data on M57 with the Samsung SDC-435 through an f/5, 150mm Newtonian.
This was the result:
It was interesting to see the ISS had appeared in a couple of the individual frames:
Steve Wainwright
The images of Jupiter were taken with the 11" SCT and a x2 Barlow.
With the DBK:
With the DMK
With the Nikon 700 and a 4" Skywatcher APO refractor
This image was difficult as Ursa Major was low in the sky which was moonlit
Keith Davies
A Mintron with the lens assembly from a x3 Barlow was used with the H-alpha PST to capture images of the solar disk and prominences. The two resulting images were combined in Andrew Sprott's Flexible Image Combine software:
Sunspots AR1101 and AR1102 are visible
The Sony DSLR was used with a bright Moon in the sky. A 70-300 mm lens was used at 300mm focal length and f/5.6 and ISO 3200. The result is a stack of 30 x 13s exposures:
M31/32
Click on the image to get a larger view
Wayne Jones
The SDC-453 camera was fitted with a light pollution filter and the AGC was set to LOW.
15min of DVD were captured. The BMPs were extracted from the DVD VOB files, and stacked in Registax. The dark-frame used was corrected by Andrew Sprott's Dark Frame Scaler:
M13
I used a DMK21AS camera at the Prime focus of the 150mm Newtonian and imaged the terminator and most of the Moon. This is a mosaic of 5 images. With a little more care, I could have imaged the whole thing. Remember to click on the image to obtain a larger view:
Jupiter was imaged with the monochrome DMK21AS camera through a 3x Barlow with RGB colour filters and a colour image rendered in Andrew Sprott's CAP software:
The Sun was imaged in H-alpha light and Ca K-line light with the DMK and PST scopes. AR1101 and 1102 can be seen in the images:
H-alpha light:
Ca K-line light:
Steve Wainwright
These images were taken through an 80mm Skywatcher refractor
29/08/2010
Jupiter
30/08/2010
Active regions AR1101 & 1102
The scope was fitted with a Baader solar filter
This image was taken with a DBK camera and a H-alpha PST
Keith Davies
I used the Samsung SDC-435 camera with a light pollution filter and the 11" SCT with a 6.3 focal reducer. I captured 244 frames to DVD, extracted them with VOB File Extractor and stacked them in Registax using a dark-frame corrected with Dark Frame Scaler.
M82
I then used the DMK21AS camera fitted with an IR/UV cut filter at the prime focus of the SCT to image the Moon:
The seeing was poor and this image is a stack of 250 frames out of a total of 8000 frames.
Steve Wainwright
Last night the Mintron and Kson refractor produced this image of M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules, from 40 captured unique frames:
Wayne Jones
