They're not of the highest quality, and the dbl shadow transit of Jupiter, the seeing was awful that night. But still, I was happy to catch it.
The old camera captured some nice detail.
I was using it, afocal, hand held. Tricky....
There's no hiding on this forum is there.
I thought all those threads would have been dead and buried by now.
All I can say is that ANYONE can do this. It's not hard to do.
You can put just about any video recording device/camcorder/compact camera/mobile phone up to an eyepiece and capture your own slice of heaven.
If I can do it, anyone can.
Thanks for looking.
Modern technology has opened the door, for everyone to try their hand at astrophotography, using anything from a simple web cam, costing less than $100 to dedicated CCD camera costing up to $20000
In the days of hypersensitised film etc this area of the hobby was restricted to those few diehards with time, money and experience, single exposures took several hours for one decent shot and no every frame was a success
When I first took up this hobby over 30 years ago there was no way I could have afforded too try my hand at imaging.
With the advent of reasonably priced digital cameras and the availability of free processing software, and the wealth of knowledge from the web the sky is the limit so too speak
Now that's strange, it worked before. OK here's the search string.
Go to Advanced Search put in jjjnettie in Username and select Find Threads Started by User. Select Solar System in Search in Forum and then In Ascending Order for Sort Results By
yes, but a lot of snooty nosed old hands who snub their noses at anything digital (or GOTO mounts for that matter) just for the sake of disliking anything new in terms of technology, really spoil it imho. In their view, if you aren't spending your hours glued to a guide piece, you ain't doing *real* astro imaging. Bollocks if you ask me ;-)
Dave
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Modern technology has opened the door, for everyone to try their hand at astrophotography, using anything from a simple web cam, costing less than $100 to dedicated CCD camera costing up to $20000
In the days of hypersensitised film etc this area of the hobby was restricted to those few diehards with time, money and experience, single exposures took several hours for one decent shot and no every frame was a success
When I first took up this hobby over 30 years ago there was no way I could have afforded too try my hand at imaging.
With the advent of reasonably priced digital cameras and the availability of free processing software, and the wealth of knowledge from the web the sky is the limit so too speak
Hey, you get that.
The die hards, clinging to the old ways.
I wonder what Barnard would think if he could see the way we image now.
Now he was a dedicated Astrophotographer.
How many hours did he spend each night, hand cranking and manually guiding that scope so it would track the skies for his exquisite photographs. Imagine in the middle of Winter, freezing mountain blizzards and bears scratching at the obs door! (and we complain about a few mozzies)
Then he'd spend the next day processing the plates.
Sleep for a couple of hours then he's off to do it all again.
I reckon he'd swap all that in a heart beat for a go-to scope and an FLI.
Or would he go the whole hog and do remote imaging. Get away from those bears. lol
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