14/05/05

Well, heres the result of better collimation. Visibility wasn't very good, but still the same camera, the same focal length, mafnification etc.

I've blown the image up 1.5x as the scale is still not ideal for planetary shots. Overall the focus isn't great but the colours are much more resolved.

11-04-05

Well, here it is. Jupiter and 3 of its moons, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa (left to right) This was the result of a (failed in some ways, succesful in others) experiment to test wether webcam imaging on planets was only suitable for CCd webcams, or wether the budget could be lowered even further, and a CMOS webcam could be used. NOTE this is the first time I've captured the moons of Jupiter, video recording on the digicam allows no control over exposure, contrast etc. Might now move on to try captureing stills with the camera and stacking many.

*NOTE* The tiny dots next to the names are the moons !

16-02-2005

This was my first attempt at Jupiter. Although its nothing compared to reference pictures, it was an achievement to photograph the planet at all! This is a stack of 5 still frames. The characteristic GRS (Great Red Spot) was not in the line of site at this time. (Didn't record the time taken, D'oh! )

 

 

 

21-01-05

This was the first image of Saturn I took. The colour was washed out and focus wasn't very good, which is probably the most crucial factor in planatary imaging. The image looks very pixelated, this was because the magnification used to take this shot was very low! My Saturn images haven't really improved on this level really, maybe due to bad collimation, maybe due to been rubbish using the camera EP projection adapter!