Sunday, May 25, 2008

Surviors of Bad Seeing...

Hi All,

Saturday 24th May once again Nilesh and me tried some photography..

The seeing was very bad from Nilesh's place but we dont have any option !!!

We setup C9.25" + 2x Barlow + Meade DSI Color and took some Jupiter and Moon shots..

though not as good as it can be, We have over processed to bring out details..

Color Image : Stack or 101
B&H Images : Stack of 85

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I will upload more images of Moon soon.

Cheers
Sameer

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Mars Occultation on May 10

Hi All,

We have planned observing and photography of Mars Occultation of May 10 from Pune. I reached to Nilesh's place on Friday Night and we did some photography at night.

Next evening we setup Nilesh's 12" Meade on his building terrace for capturing Occultation.

But Bad seeing and extreamly windy conditions spoiled the show. The Mars was dancing in Camera Field even in exposures as short as .0020 sec. !!!!

The output of cource is not what one should expect... its very bad indeed....

We also captured some other objects...

But I did not get enough time to process images after i come back from Pune... I will post images of Mars and Moon soon....

The seeing was too bad it was like looking at object at the bottom of swiming pool... Both images are stack of around 200 images @ 0.0024 sec and Over processed in Registack....

Saturn

with Meade 12" SCT + 2x Meade Barlow + Meade DSI Color Camera + Sameer



Jupiter

with Celestron 9.25" SCT + 2x Meade Barlow + Meade DSI Color Camera... + Sameer



M4

Celestron 9.25 + Lumicon .6x Reducer + SBIG ST7 + Nilesh

M5

Celestron 9.25 + Lumicon .6x Reducer + SBIG ST7 + Nilesh

M51 - Wirlpool Galaxy

Celestron 9.25 + Lumicon .6x Reducer + HX9 + Nilesh

M64 - Black Eye Galaxy

Celestron 9.25 + Lumicon .6x Reducer + HX9 + Nilesh

M104 - Sombrero Hat Galaxy

Celestron 9.25 + Lumicon .6x Reducer + HX9 + Nilesh

M5

with AstroTech 66mm Refractor + Meade DSI Color Camera + Sameer

M104

with AstroTech 66mm Refractor + Meade DSI Color Camera + Sameer

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

MilkyWay from Vangani - May 3 2008

Following are the pics of Milkyway taken from Vangani by Anurag.I and Amar Sharma also tried our hands at Barn Door mount.

We used Barn Door mount made by Anurag and used his Canon 400D camera @ 24mm !!!
Exposures are in the range of 1 min and 2 mins.

click on images to see bigger version....







Cheers
Sameer