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Old 11-07-2006, 08:57 AM
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Uranus - wide field, 8/7/06

The moon was so bright on Saturday night it wasn't worth doing any serious imaging. I thought I would do a wide field of Uranus just to satisfy my urge to photograph something in the sky

I might try to take the same view again in the next week or two and overlay them to show uranus moving through the sky.
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Old 11-07-2006, 09:43 AM
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DOH! I meant to post it in Solar System. Clicked the wrong link, sorry. But then anything further away than the corner shop is deep space for me. It's all relative.
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Old 11-07-2006, 09:52 AM
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Very nice Andrew.
Another image showing the change of position would be cool.

Great idea!
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Old 11-07-2006, 10:35 AM
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Top stuff Andrew.
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Old 11-07-2006, 10:39 AM
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Another fine shot from you Andrew. I don't think you will find there are too many other Uranus shot posted here. You never know you might start a bit of a trend
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Old 11-07-2006, 11:00 AM
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Another fine shot from you Andrew. I don't think you will find there are too many other Uranus shot posted here. You never know you might start a bit of a trend
It's all Iceman's fault. It was after he posted his Uranus image a week or two ago that I got thinking about the outer planets. Look out Neptune, you're next
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Old 11-07-2006, 11:07 AM
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Very nice Andrew.
Another image showing the change of position would be cool.

Great idea!
I'm going to give it a go. I did try to stack images of the Milky Way taken a week apart some time ago, and even though the camera was set to the same focal length (fully zoomed out), there was a slight difference in size between the two images. It was something like 99.9% which is a few pixels difference in a 2576 pixel image. That plus the fact that the second image was 15 degrees rotated to the original meant I never did get them to line up properly no matter how much I stretched and rotated in Photoshop.
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Old 11-07-2006, 11:11 AM
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Well if you want spend the money, Registar (not registax) would probably do the job. From what I have heard about it what it does for stretching, rotating aligning and stacking borders on wizardry. That is only here say and anecdotal (though from good sources) so check with someone who actually uses it first.
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Hi Middy, great shot and very well presented with the inset - Uranus's aqua colour very clear Are you going to try a higher mag shot?
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Are you going to try a higher mag shot?
That is as high a magnification as I can go with the camera

My scope doesn't have tracking capability yet until I build an EQ platform ... one day.
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Well if you want spend the money, Registar (not registax) would probably do the job. From what I have heard about it what it does for stretching, rotating aligning and stacking borders on wizardry. That is only here say and anecdotal (though from good sources) so check with someone who actually uses it first.
Just checked out the Registar website. It sounds like a very good bit of software. Unfortunately it is a tad out of my price range. Given the amount of time it took to convince the Minister for Finance to release just $500 for the purchase of a telescope, I'd say hell would freeze over before I managed to get US $150 for some software to 'align this image with this one and stack them'. I wouldn't even know how to begin putting together a case for the purchase of that one.
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