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| Astronomy and Astrophotography |
| Saturn and Jupiter - First attempts with PGR Flea3 ICX618 based Camera: Imaging and Processing: Michael DeMita - Late June and July, 2011 - Suburban Atlanta |
| Flea3 ICX618 based micro camera, manual filter wheel (Baader LRGB filters). Celestron 11" Edge HD telescope. Baader 2x VIP Barlow system used. Capture attempts with FireCapture as FlyCapture 2.0. About 2000 frames each of stacked video frames selected using Registax 6.0. Post processing in PS4. This is much, much harder than normal astrophotography. Seeing conditions and focus must be perfect - and these first attempts are formative at best. |
| One of my first attempts. Io and Europa (left and right) can be seen. |
| Another attempt - Perhaps better processing technique and seeing. These were taken within 30 minutes and show how fast the planet rotates. |
| Flea3, First Saturn light. Very hard object to image. |
| No Barlow - just Flea3 Camera - C11 at f10. Much clearer - but too small. Note Io and Ganymede. |
| Planetary Work: |
| I have long been interested in the this and I am now trying it. Bought my first scope on 11/1/10. The photography side of it is difficult and will take years to learn. See below for recent work and archives. |
| Click Page # below for most recent astrophotographic work - higher page # is more recent: |
| My first Jupiter: Taken with NexImage imager through the 8SE - Registax processed |
| Moon: Canon 5D reduced through Denk S2 diagonal - 8SE scope - 800 iso, 1/500th exp, f10 |
| First Moon: SXVR-M25C Camera, Nebulosity, Maxim stack, PS CS4. ED127 Refractor. 30x.04s subs. |
| Saturn using a now returned evaluation camera from Point Grey Research in Canada. The Flea3 GigE ICX445 based unit had major ghosting and bleeding issues and is now being re-evaluated for a firmware update. This was also an early LRGB attempt Processing done with Registax 6.0 and PS4. |
| Recent attempts at Solar System objects: Moon, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter - PGR Flea3 ICX618 based Camera (except the moon shot below). For all but the moon, a Celestron 11" Edge HD SCT telescope was employed: Imaging and Processing: Michael DeMita - Suburban Atlanta |
| Jupiter attempt - G-11 mount made a difference. 800 frame stack of LRGB videos @ 120 fps - Flea3. |
| Mars first light - G-11 mount. 800 frame stack of LRGB - Flea3. |
| No Barlow - just Flea3 Camera - C11 at f10. Note Io, Europa and Callisto (L-R). |
| Solar Imaging: PGR Grasshopper and Flea3 Camera. Best 20% of 4000 frames @ 120 fps. Solar - Lunt double and triple stack 80mm, Planetary - Celestron C11 Edge HD @ 2x Barlow, Satellite - Tak 106@prime with Flea3 (overexposed). Baader filters, CGEM mount, Color Lodestar/PHD guide. Also new images using the DayStar Quark unit and ZWO asi174mm cooled USB3.0 camera to the left. |
| ISS - Manual capture (negative) with Flea 3 in Tak 106 @ prime - no barlow. Hey, it sucks but I tried for a LONG time to even get it on film through a scope! |
| Coronado 80mm 2x etalon - Grasshopper Camera (from field day at my office with Stephen Ramsden - processed by me) |
| Sun - Lunt 80mm 2x etalon - M25C Camera - from Hawkinsville |
| Sun - Lunt 80mm 2x etalon - Flea3 Camera |
| Venus - Tak FSQ-106EDXiii @ Prime - Flea 3 camera. Lum image taken as test for ISS attempt. |
| Mars: Above is an image of Mars from 1/28/12. Seeing was not great here in Atlanta. Celestron C11 Edge HD scope with 2x Baader Barlow @ F20. Capture with FlyCapture 2.2 using a Flea3 Firewire 800 PGR camera (ICX 618). Astrodon LRGB filters. Stack of the best 800 of 4000 frames. |
| Flea3, C11" SCT - Baader 2x mod barlow. FireCapture rules.... May, 2012 |
| Jupiter and Io October, 2012. Flea3, f20, C11". |
| Explore Scientific ED80 triplet, DayStar Quark and ZWO asi174mm cooled USB3.0 camera. |