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GUEST PLANETARY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 31 December 2007

Some ETX users have sent me 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. You will also find astrophotography examples on the Helpful Information - Astrophotography page.

Submitted by: jwalmach@finalpath.com [31 Dec 07]
You were nice enough to post a pic of Saturn I sent you back in April so I thought I'd send along my first attempt at Mars.

Submitted by: Renee Ann Wirick (reneeannwirick@yahoo.com) [20 Dec 07]
Glad to see you are geeting more settled, and that we can send images again!! Here is a shot of Mars for the Planets Page. I was rather pleased that with a scope as small as the ETX80 that I could get a decent image, 100 images stacked using Drizzle to enlarge it another 2x from the 2x I goot from the Barlow, and cleaned up in up in Phtotshop. The image next to it is from S&T's little program to determine which side of the planet is facing us at any given time.

Submitted by: stewart@longs7.freeserve.co.uk [17 Dec 07]
Mars imaged 12th December from the U.K. ETX125 polar aligned, 4x powermate, Philips spc900 with ir/uv filter. 3 minute avi captured in K3CCDTools and around 300 frames from 2000+ stacked in Registax. Tweaked in CS2. The first clear night in weeks!

Submitted by: Brian Miller (millers18@att.net) [6 Dec 07]
Had some time last night to get out my ETX 125 and spend some quality time looking at the sky. It was cold and clear, with no moon and pretty stable seeing. Mars was quite a sight against the background of the stars, blazing at magnitude -1.35 it was almost too bright to make out surface features without a filter. Got out the LPI and managed to take a few images before the 44 degree weather drove me indoors. Attached is one of the best images of the night. It is a stack of 125 images, no filter, with a Scopetronix .5x barlow, but I was too cold and lazy to document any of the exposure settings. Mars is only 15 arc seconds, so I'm amazed that I managed to capture any albedo features. Noticeably different from the 2005 or 2003 apparitions. Thanks for all of the time and effort you put into maintaining the Mighty ETX website. We really appreciate having a place to exchange ideas and improve our skills. Hope you find this image suitable for posting on your site.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [8 Oct 07]
Here is a final photo of Saturn from a 3 min avi. I took this in June. I used my etx 125 and the sac 7 ccd to take this photo. The avi was processed in registax and cleaned up in photoshop cs2 and photofilter. A total of 6,700 frames were used to make this photo.

Submitted by: Maurice Collins (mauricejscollins@hotmail.com) [8 Oct 07]
I was out observing Mercury on October 6 and thought I would see if I could image it with my digital camera in movie mode hand-holding it up to the ep. This is the result. Details are on the image. I forgot to mirror reverse it, so it is as seen with the telescope. Seeing was about A-II. Processed in Registax and Photoshop 7.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [4 Oct 07]
Here are two photos of Venus fron today at 5:00am from my home. I used my etx 125 and the sac 7 at prime focus for this shot. It is a 60 sec. avi at 1/50 of a sec. 30 fps. processed in registax cleaned up in photoshop cs2. clear skies to all.

Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [26 Sep 07]
Here is my first Mars photo of 2007. The war God is still aways out there but I thought I would give it a try. This is a final photo from a 2min avi. 1/10 of a sec. 30 fps. Taken with my 125 etx and the sac 7 with a 2x apo tele. I processed the avi in registax and after the alignment I ran it through make a dark frame mode. I used 3,590 frames to make this photo. I cant wait till it gets bigger. clear skis Paul

Submitted by: Stewart.Long@bcm-ltd.co.uk [22 Aug 07]
Jupiter is low in the south from the U.K. at the moment and sharp images are difficult. This is my best effort from July this year- not great but you can tell it isn't Saturn! Polar mounted ETX 125, 2x apo barlow, Toucam pro (latest one, I forget the number) and IR filter. Captured with K3CCD and processed in Registax and Photoshop CS2.