The astrophotos on this page were taken from my front deck with the Imaging Source DMK 21AF04 monochrome camera, captured with Astro IIDC and processed by Lynkeos, Keith's Image Stacker, Astrostack and Photoshop.  All pictures taken with the Meade 12.5" Starfinder with Dob Driver II tracking.

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Planets


Mars, 12/15/05.  Filters for color: red #23A, green #58 and blue #38A, all with IR blocking filter.   Luminance signal from red filter without IR blocking filter.  

Saturn, 1/24/06, near opposition.  Filters for color: red #23A, green #58 and blue #38A, all with IR blocking filter.   Luminance signal with no filters.  


Moon images, most taken with red #25 and IR blocking filters


Hadley Rille, 1/8/06 with 4x powermate.  Stack of best 895 of 5000 images.

Plato and the Teneriffe Mountains, 1/8/06 with 4x powermate.  Stack of best 801 of 5000 images.

Tycho, 1/8/06 with 4x powermate.  Stack of best 1023 of 5000 images.

Copernicus! 12/11/05, with the 2" 4x powemate.  Stack of best 452 of 5000 images.

Copernicus and the Appenine mountains, 12/11/05, taken at prime focus.  Montage of 2 stacks of 1000 images each.  

 

Appenine mountains, 12/10/05, taken at prime focus.  Stack of 1000 images.  

 

Clavius 12/10/05.  Best 191 of 5000 frames.  

Tycho region (L) and Tycho crater (R). 12/10/05.  Left image is stack of 900 images, right is a stack of best 714 of 5000.

The straight wall. 12/10/05.  Left image is stack of 900 images, right is a stack of best 716 of 5000.  


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