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Posts Made By: Steve Mathis

February 6, 2012 05:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars 2-6-12

Posted By Steve Mathis
From this morning, Mars with a ToUcam, C11 @f/30. Registax and PSCS3 for processing. Clear Sky Chart and Skippy Sky both predicted good seeing this morning, and they were right!

February 6, 2012 05:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn 2-6-12

Posted By Steve Mathis
This morning, ToUcam and C11 @ f/30. Unusually good seeing for us. The jet stream moved over a little for today. What a difference!

March 5, 2012 03:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Opposition Mars with ToUcam

Posted By Steve Mathis
Taken at 12:45 this morning, C11 @ f/30, ToUcam, 600 of 3000 frames. The seeing started out pretty lousy, and turned worse over about 30 minutes. It took a lot of sharpening, etc., to pull this out of the data.

March 20, 2012 10:01 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

A late and noisy M42

Posted By Steve Mathis
From last week, this is a composite of exposures of 360, 120, 60, 30, 15, and 8 sec, with only 7 of the 360 sec frames. I didn't have much time before Orion sank into the trees, so this is pretty noisy. Plus, it was 70° when I started. At dark. In mid-March. Anyway, the subs for each exposure were stacked with DSS, and the composite was assembled with PSCS3. The scope is a 6" f/4 Newt (with a Coulter mirror circa 1970) with a Baader MPCC, and the camera is a Nikon D50, ISO 1600. Thanks for looking, comments welcome!

March 31, 2012 01:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

My best ToUcam Mars

Posted By Steve Mathis
From last night, in pretty good seeing. This is 1500 of 6000 frames, C11 @f/30. Stacked with Autostakkert2! and finished with PSCS3. Thanks for looking.

Steve

April 7, 2012 07:01 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars with C11 and ToUcam, again

Posted By Steve Mathis
From last night, surprised by the seeing, I got 3 AVIs with the ToUcam and C11 @ f/30. This one is 1500 of 6000 frames, processed with AS2! and PSCS3. Thanks for looking.

April 27, 2012 02:25 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

M 51 with C11

Posted By Steve Mathis
This is an image from last week, made with a C11 @ f/6.3 a modified Nikon D50. 25 x 360 sec @ ISO 1600, processed with DSS and PSCS3. Thanks for looking, comments welcome!

Steve

May 26, 2012 04:17 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

NGC 4565

Posted By Steve Mathis
With my C11 @ f/6.3, 20 x 6 min @ ISO 1600 on my Nikon D50. It was a warm night, and noise was rampant. Thanks for looking, comments welcome!

June 3, 2012 05:53 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Venus -2 days

Posted By Steve Mathis
Inspired by Joe's image from yesterday, I wanted to give it a try. This is not easy to do! I got this image at 11:00 AM CDT today, with my ED80, a 2x barlow, and a ToUcam. We had very hazy skies, and less than an hour after I got this it was 100% cloudy. With the haze and Venus so close to the Sun, it took a while to find it through the eyepiece even though it was near the center of the field. I had to look right at it to see it, sort of like trying to find it in the sky with the naked eye. The image was not at all stable; as Roland suggested, it was boiling. This is 150/1200 frames stacked with Registax, and contrast enhanced with PSCS3.

June 7, 2012 04:42 PM Forum: Wildlife Photography

Squirrel

Posted By Steve Mathis
Not all that wild, I guess. Probably eating something that I grew. Nikon D70 with Nikkor 180mm ED. He was so busy and content that I had time to go in the house and get the camera, switch lenses, and get back outside.

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