Weasner's Meade ETX Guest Gallery

GUEST LUNAR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 14 October 2006

Many ETX users have sent examples of their astrophotography. If you have some examples you would like included here please send me a description of how you made the astrophotos and a copy of the images as GIF or JPEG files (due to internet email gateway issues, please send only one image file per message). Send to etx@me.com. Alternatively, if you have created your own web page with your examples please let me know and I'll include a link to your site.

Submitted by: cncnowland@aol.com [14 Oct 06]
Here is my first photo with my ETX80-AC-TC, 2x barlow, ToUcam ProII, 292 frames stacked (registax). Image taken on October 9, 2006, from Northern Virginia.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [14 Oct 06]
here is a photo of our Moon taken 9 October from my home in Washington pa. I used my etx 125 and my sony cybershot mounted to a 40mm lens to take the photos. I ran the best 5 out of 40 photos through registax and cleaned up the best photo in photoshop 9.0

Submitted by: Martin Lewicki (martin.lewicki@gmail.com) [9 Oct 06]
Perigee full Moon imaged from Adelaide South Australia. 7 October 2006 11:50 UT ETX90-EC & Vivitar 3930 digital camera. Three stacked exposures EV -0.5, 0, +0.5. combined and processed in Paintshop Pro.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [9 Oct 06]
Here are some Moon mosaic photos using a freeware program called AutoStitch. All of these photos were taken from my home in Wahington Pa. using my etx125 and a sac 7 ccd. All are avi's processed in registax and cleand up in photoshop 9.0.

Submitted by: nathanstevenson (nathanstevenson@tiscali.co.uk) [4 Oct 06]
I took these photos with my meade LPI in September 2006 and I have arranged them as a collage. The photos were stacked in registax and made up of 300 images each. The telescope was roughly aligned and was guided by autostar suite.
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This is the same view taken at the same time on 11th September at 0:53 from Leek in the UK, but with my canon 350D at prime focus. Shutter Priority, shutter speed 1/400 sec, ISO 800. Using adobe photoshop elements I've adjusted the contrast, brightness and also the sharpness (with a great tool called unsharp mask under the filters menu).