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Posts Made By: Vishnu Kanupuru

May 2, 2004 04:26 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mare Imbrium

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Another shot of Mare Imbrium. Low-Resolution 640x480 image.
The image was taken through a friends brand new Celestron 8-inch F/5 scope on LXD55 mount.
Camera: Fuji finepix s5000 @ 200 ASA and eyepiece projection with 40mm eps and homemade adapter.
Single shot processed in registax
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
clear skies
Vishnu

May 2, 2004 04:28 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Copernicus & Kepler

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Another shot of Copernicus and Kepler . Low-Resolution 640x480 image. The image was taken through a friends brand new Celestron 8-inch F/5 scope on LXD55 mount.
Camera: Fuji finepix s5000 @ 200 ASA and eyepiece projection with 40mm eps and homemade adapter.
Single shot processed in registax
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
clear skies
Vishnu

May 7, 2004 04:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Registax alignment Help

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Hello Everyone

I am trying to align and stack a few images I have in Registax but when I select a crater in the center the rest of the image doesnt get aligned and I get a radial pattern moving out from the center crater which was taken for alignment. Is there anyway I can select multiple points to over come this. I have attached an example.
Please help.
clear skies
Vishnu

May 9, 2004 05:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Noise Reduction: Is it worth It?

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Hello Everyone,

I have been looking for a way to get rid of some of the noise in my moon images taken with digital camera and came across this nifty shareware called NeatImage. Although it removes the noise I kind of find that a bit of detail is lost too. The Raw Image is posted below and the processed one in the next post in the same thread. Any comments on whether the noise reduction is worth it?
clear skies
Vishnu

April 28, 2005 07:46 AM Forum: Telescope Making

Re: Tube for 10

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Hi Dave,

Looks like a Meade mirror off ebay outlet? I got one of those and am planning to build a dob around it. Here is what I did so far. I downloaded a copy of Newt software and designed my OTA in that using the primary and secondary mirror I got. The made the parts list and so far the ones below.

OTA
12"x48" sono tube from local hardware store: 8$
Spider and Secondary holder from Destiny ebay store: 26$ Shipped
2" Rack and Pinion Focuser: 30$ shipped from Astromart
Primary Mirror Cell: I am going to make it myself. Plop software helps a lot in making simple design
Finder: Have finders lying around
Dob Mount: Homemade
Teflon, edge rings, altitude bearings

I am thinking the total cost of the project including the mirror and secondary to be somewhere around 400$
good luck and keep us posted.
clear skies
Vishnu


April 29, 2005 03:23 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Science and Imaging

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Hello Everyone,

I really enjoy the impressive images being taken by the members of this forum. Just curious. How many of you actually submit these images for any kind of archiving or scientific analysis to organizations like ALPO or other organizations?
clear skies
Vishnu

April 11, 2004 04:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter 4/10/2004

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Excellent Images Jose. Lots of details on the disk. I like the white ovals a lot.
clear skies
Vishnu

April 12, 2004 01:42 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

My first astro image

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Hello Mike

Great shot of the moon. I have just started shooting the moon with a setup similar to yours (digital+eyepiece projection+telescope). I normally focus with the telescope first and after I get the image clear on the screen I do a continuous focus...I have been having more problems with getting the right exposure as everything looks great on the small LCD and not so great when I put it on my PC. Once I get that calibrated I should get better images.
Some of my first images are posted a few posts below.
Good luck.
clear skies
Vishnu

April 15, 2004 03:45 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

OVER processed!

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Nice images Yu! I dont feel they are in anyway that they are over processed! Might want to scale the images a bit smaller.
clear skies
Vishnu

April 17, 2004 03:31 AM Forum: Coronado-Lunt-DayStar Solar Filters

Hairy limbs, ... er, full disk image for 16-Apr-04

Posted By Vishnu Kanupuru
Excellent image paul. I have just started into H-alpha imaging with my schools telescope and others but most of my images are red. Can you post a tutorial as to how to process raw images into the yellow ones....sorry I am still a newbie learning the basics
clear skies
Vishnu

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