Weasner's Meade ETX Guest Gallery

GUEST PLANETARY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

Last updated: 26 June 2008

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: Maurice Collins (mauricejscollins@hotmail.com) [26 Jun 08]
Jupiter one is a composite of two exposures, one for the globe and one for the satellites taken with the ETX-90/RA and Meade LPI CCD.

Submitted by: Michael Schroder (m-schr@web.de) [8 Jun 08]
I send you my last picture of Saturn which I took on 05/23/2008. Maybe that this is the last shot this season for Saturn is starting to get very low and the skies are mostly cloudy. Its my first try with the Philips webcam. I still hope to improve. From now on its Jupiter.

Submitted by: Dr.-Ing. Michael Schroder (m-schr@web.de) [14 May 08]
I send you a picture of saturn which was taken on 05/10/2008 with my ETX-90PE. The picture was taken in Bremervrde, Germany. I used the Bresser PC-Ocular and a 3x Barrowlense. I used Giotto to overlay 2.000 pictures from the avi-file (352x288) and did a little fine-tuning with Paintshop Pro. Still no signs of Cassini. Maybe my equipment is just not good enough but it still is an improvement to my picture from 04/26/2008.

Submitted by: Nohr Tillman (ntillm01@yahoo.com) [4 May 08]
Hope you are still holding an interest in this stuff after the theft. People... Anyway, far from good, but at least interesting first shots through my "new" ETX-90 and LPI. I'll send the second in another e-mail. These are both un-combined, straight through at the main 90 degree eyepiece location. I did adjust contrast and brightness a bit in Microsoft Picture Manager. Without the tips and first-hand experience posted on your site, it would have taken way longer to get the scope tuned well enough to be stable enough to take these pics. Thanks for the site and thanks to all who support it!

Second pic to go with the first. I'm trying to get my mind around the difference in the angle of the rings from fifteen days ago. Had Saturn re-angled because it has traveled further in it's orbit? Or is it more due to the position in the sky (further West and later in the night)? Either way, cool stuff I think. The plane of the Ring System does change as both Saturn and the Earth go around in their orbits. We are approaching a minimum angle situation.

Submitted by: Michael Schroeder (m-schr@web.de) [30 Apr 08]
this is my very first astro-photo. It was taken two nights ago in Bremervoerde, Germany with my brand new ETX90-PE. I used a bresser pc-ocular with a 3x Barrow-lense and Giotto to overlay the 400 frames of an 352x288 avi-file. I dont know if the quality is good enough for publication but I hope to improve.

Submitted by: Chris Warburton (C.A.Warburton@lboro.ac.uk) [29 Feb 08]
Thought I'd share a couple of images I took of Mars a week or so ago. They were both taken as AVIs with a Philips webcam through My 'Mighty' ETX-90. This I had tracking in polar mode on my home made polar wedge. I was very pleased this time as it was the first time I'd managed to utilise my 3x barlow (and still find the image on the CCD!). They were taken from my back garden in Derbyshire U.K. The first shot is a stack of 1093 frames from 1618 over 2x videos using a 2x barlow. Stacked and Wavelet processed in Registax, cropped and enhanced in Arcsoft. The second is a stack of 1503 frames from 2169 over 2x videos using a 3x barlow. Processed as above.

Submitted by: Dieter.Wolf@DNSint.com [20 Feb 08]
starting this years Saturn season (missed Mars totally...) 2008-02-16, 23:00 CET; ETX-125EC with 2x barlow and ToUCam pro (abt. 600 out of 1600 frames); K3CCD tools, Giotto, Paint Shop pro, Neat Image Cassini starts to get difficult, but the rings can still be seen together with some shadow and cloud belts. Shouldn't we get moon events in 2008/2009 like in the Jupiter system; I think so...

Submitted by: Stewart.Long@bcm-ltd.co.uk [8 Jan 08]
sorry to hear about your equipment loss. Attached are a couple of images for consideration for the planetary gallery. Taken from Rutland in U.K.