Here's a link to an image of M57 captured by Rock Mallin. It's a bit washed out, but that's only to be expected as it was taken in daylight! http://mallincam.tripod.com/id46.html
And you city folk complain about your light pollution.
Rock does special things with his highly modified astro video cameras and there is no "hype" in his hyperplus video systems that seems to pop up from time to time.
He actually is just an addicted astronomer like the rest of us who also is a leader in his area.
He first designed these cameras for himself and then when people found out wanted one as well.
You can get one on special order but will have to wait 6 months as he hand builds them and he is always is willing via e-mail to help out with different settings and ideas.
Amazing image of M57. He actually has captured a few globulars in the daytime as well.
When he first did this a few years ago, I sent some of these daylight images to a few well known imaging guys here in Brizzy and at first they said they were fakes, but on closer inspection and adjusting the contrast you can make out the back ground stars around M57 and they are in the right spots in the FOV.
I bet some of you guys with good CCD's and scopes with some experience could capture some high surface brightness deep sky objects in the day time as well. It might be worth a challenge, something different.
When I got my Mallincam I had some well known astronomer friends over and we did a tour of the universe to see what this camera could do as well as to see what all this " hype" was about, and we were all amazed at the images it displayed in seconds in full colour with very little noise. This camera picked up PeterM's first mag. 17.5 S/Nova discovery last year through thin high cloud one night in full light pollution and it was fun displaying it on a 20 inch LCD TV in my backyard with some friends over while I was talking to Peter on the phone about his discovery.
Some nights I am just blown away at what appears in 7 to 56 seconds.
Its a fun system to have especially with family and friends over but it will never replace conventional cooled CCD cameras for imaging, but it was not designed for long exposure imaging just real time enjoyment especially in light polluted Briz vegas. The images displayed in the C/N video section and Yahoo forums are similar to whats displayed in real time.
Very popular system now in the US as they suffer alot worse light pollution than we do.
Thanks JJJ for posting. Video is easy and fun at the same time.
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Isn't it amazing what can be done now with digital imaging.
Video astronomy is terrific fun. Amazing what you can see and capture through small apertures.
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