meegja

Lunar mosaic

meegja — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:13:01 GMT

Lunar mosaic

Well, no lunar eclips images from me ... somehow all images on my camera are all bad :-(
But after the eclips I tried my Meade LPI again. After processing and
stacking the images, I noticed that (by acident) I covered almost the whole
moon. Took some work, but here is my first Lunar mosaic :-) It's build out
of 9 images, each image around 50 frames stacked. Not perfect but I am
satisfied with it :-)

Bynostar 130-900 Newton, Meade LPI

First time moon with LPI

meegja — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:32:49 GMT

First time moon with LPI

Clouds, bad seeing and rather a lot of wind ... shake it baby :-(
Despite that all, I wanted to try my LPI on the moon for the first time and
this one came out. Five images stacked in photoshop.

I only can imagine that images made with clear sky, (almost) no wind and my
new 1.25" Shorty-Plus 2x Barlow 3-elements APO that is coming soon, that
those images will look so much better then :-)

Bynostar 130-900 Newton
Meade LPI

LPI with 2x Barlow

meegja — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:00:59 GMT

LPI with 2x Barlow

Used a 2x Barlow now. But it's a cheap one that came with my scoop. And my scope is still not collimated. Hoping on better stuff when I got my new Barlow and when I learned how to collimate :-)

First light LPI: Saturn

meegja — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:29:29 GMT

First light LPI: Saturn

Well, first posting here and first light for my Meade LPI. Used the Autostar Suite and think it rocks. Was a bit disappointed about the image size but afterwards I am sattisfied with the result. Taken with a 130-900 Newton f:7, bad seeing and not totally clear skies. Stacked around 30 images. Tried my Barlow 2x but the Barlow came as stock with my telescope and is not high quality. So planetary imaging with the LPI is not that good with my scoop ... but for the moon I think it rocks.

Menno Jansen
The Netherlands