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Sunspots on 2 Oct 2011. Taken with a Philips ToUcam at primary focus of Coronado PST mounted on an Meade LXD-55 for tracking. Images processed with Registax.
South star trail, 5 Nov 2007, Anglesea, Victoria. Made up of 30 x 60secs exposures using Canon 400D DSLR at ISO 800 with aperture at 4.0, lens focal length at 18mm. Foreground (trees) lit using a torch for a few secs on each of the last two frames. Processed using Startrails software.
\'Smiling\' triple conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter on the evening of 1 December 2008 from Melbourne. Photo taken with Canon EOS 400D DSLR. Venus sits above Jupiter and the Moon.
Saturn and Titan, taken with a Thorlabs DC1645C USB camera (1280×1024 pixels) at the primary focus of a Meade 8″ SCT LXD55. Processed with Registax 6 (best 100 out of 200 frames, dyadic wavelet filter).
Small and Large Magellanic Clouds as viewed from Anglesea, Victoria. 30 x 60 sec exposures taken with Canon 400D DSLR at ISO 800 with aperture at 4.0., lens focal length at 18mm. Processed with Startrails.
Small and Large Magellanic clouds taken with Canon EOS 400 DSLR.
13 day old Moon on 21 July 2013 at 5:15pm local time Melbourne. Photo taken using Canon EOS 400D DSLR with Tamron Zoom lens (200mm). Settings 100 ASA, f6.3, exp 1/800 s.
Saturn re-appearing behind the bright limb of the Moon. Taken with a Canon 400D EOS digital camera using eyepiece projection on a Meade LXD 55 8″ SCT. Eyepiece was 32 mm. Photo taken at 100 ASA with exposures of around 1/10 s.SunspotAR12192-sol3dyad1.jpg
Taken with a Canon 400D EOS digital camera at primary focus of a Meade LXD 55 8″ SCT. Photos taken at 100 ASA with exposures of around 1/10 s.
Taken 12 June, 2015, with a Canon 700D using live video feed at the primary focus of my Meade 8″ SCT LXD55 telescope. 3 AVI files (1024×688 @ 20 frames/s) were combined using PIPP for a total of 1800 frames. Registax 5 was used to process the image.
Mars, 26 Jan 2010. Imaged using Philips ToUcam Pro webcam at primary focus of 8-inch Meade SCT LXD 55 with luminance filter. Processed with Registax 5.
15 day old moon. Photo taken 27 Jun 2010 with a Sony Handycam at 25X optical zoom with manual exposure and auto focus control on a tripod. Video camera weighs about 200g and is smaller than a can of coke.
Imaged using Philips ToUcam Pro webcam at primary focus of 8-inch Meade SCT LXD 55 with luminance filter. Processed with Registax 5.
Jupiter with Ganymede passing in front and Io to the right. Taken 17/10/2011, Thorlabs DCC 1645C USB camera at primary focus of Meade 8\" LXD55 SCT. 2,000 frames processed with Registax.
Jupiter, 25 April, 2006. Imaged using Philips ToUcam Pro webcam at primary focus of 8 inch Meade SCT LXD 55. Processed with Registax 4.
Keyhole Nebula - 2 min exposure (800 ASA) using Canon EOS 400D at prime focus of Meade LXD55 8\" SCT. Processed with Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop. Taken Melbourne, 11pm, 24 Jan 2012.
Taken using a PST Coronado solar telescope with a Canon 400D using eyepiece projection (26 mm lens). Meade LXD-55 mount used for tracking.
Jupiter with Io and Europa, 18 March 2015

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