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Widefield Lodestar
Near-live (max 90 sec) widefield captures made with photo lenses and Lodestar x2c camera and LodestarLive v.0.11 software.
The main purpose of the album is to demonstrate the field of view of the various lenses, when used with the 1/2" sensor of the Lodestar.
Captions are chosen so that by sorting by them lines up the images in the order of increasing / decreasing FOV.
No processing was applied, the images are as they were captured during live observation sessions.- Album created by Dom543
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- 30 images
- 30 images
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Goran Nilsson
Last year (2014) I built my observatory and this spring (2015) I finally got to do astrophotography - I am on a steep learning curve.- Album created by gorann
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- 21 images
- 4 image comments
- 21 images
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HEQ5/SW 80ED
I finally have some decent equipment to play with...- Album created by hjw
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- 12 images
- 12 images
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Kielder Star Camp
Some images from the Kielder Star Camp October 2015- Album created by James
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- 9 images
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SX-825 Real-Time
All images are real-time (max 90sec exposure) captures made with an SX-825 mono camera and LodestarLive software. No post processing has been applied and no intermediate data files were saved. What you see in this gallery is exactly what was seen on the computer screen during the observation session.
All captures were made in Seattle from a location with direct view of downtown and all its lights about 3 miles away and through the moisture laden, low transparency atmosphere typical for the region. Narrowband filters were used to suppress light pollution.
A discussion thread on the use of the SX-825 camera for electronically assisted real-time observing can be found here
http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/249914-sx-825-with-lodestarlive-available-and-working/.
To see the captures in full size and full HD resolution, right click on the gallery image and and select "Direct link to this image file".- Album created by Dom543
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- 21 images
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lunar eclipse with blood moon
lunar eclipse with blood moon.- Album created by vaibhav
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150mm F8 planetary scope (GSO mirror)
Have had great views of Saturn, moon & double stars with this high contrast scope. Interestingly, although 100% field of illumination is only 8mm & light fall off is steep outside this, I had a v. good view of the great nebula in Orion, lots of contrasty knots and detail (using orthoscopic & RKE eyepieces) despite observing from North Adelaide. .23mm-wire spider & 22.5mm diagonal produces about 2.8% obstruction of main mirror by area and faint diffraction spikes only on stars & planets brighter than 1st magnitude.- Album created by perrin6
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Lodestar + C14 + Hyperstar
These are near real time captures taken with a SX Lodestar x2c camera and Lodestar Live software. The scope is a C14 Edge with Hyperstar. The FL is 675 mm with a FR of 1.9. All images are at F1.9 despite some indicating F5 in the annotation. The viewing location was the Visitors Center on Mauna Kea ion the Big Island of Hawaii.- Album created by HiloDon
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- 7 images
- 7 images