Astro Images
An Introduction to Digital Astronomy
Introduction
These web pages describe my first steps into the world of digital astro photography.
All the images are taken through my 250mm Orion Europa Newtonian F4.8 reflector or my Skywatcher Pro ED80 F7.5 refractor using a Philips ToUCam Pro web cam for solar, lunar and planetary work and my Nikon D50 DSLR for deep sky and wide field imaging.
I use Registax to process the raw AVI files from the web cam, Deepsky Stacker for the deep sky images and I then use Paintshop Pro 7 to add a final unsharp mask and any colour enhancement that may be needed.
All my experiences to-date have been with the kind advice from members of the Ilkeston & District Astronomical Society.
Please feel free to contact me; your comments are welcome.
CURRENT MOON
IDAS colleague, Mark Thomas, took this ghostly long exposure photo of me whilst usinng a webcam to image Saturn from our observing site at Shiperly Park.
Astro Adventures; holidays under the darkest skies in England.
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