HiloDon

Images taken by HiloDon with the SX Lodestar X2

Images captured using a Lodestar X2 and Lodestar Live software. These are some of the 100 Galaxy clusters catalogued by Hickson in 1982.

These are my first efforts using a Lodestar X2C camera and Lodestar Live Software produced by Paul81 of the UK. Thanks, Paul. The setup actually is used for near real time viewing.

These are computer screen captures taken with a SX Lodestar X2C camera during a near real time viewing session. There's was no post processing. The image is shown with the use of Lodestar Live software developed by Paul81 in the UK.
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The images in this album are captures made while EAA viewing with a Lodestar X2 and Lodestar Live s/w. An Orion 7nm narrowband filter was used to enhance the Ha of emission nebulae.

These captures were made during a near real time viewing session using a small 50mm finder scope and a Lodestar X2 mono camera equipped with narrow band Ha filter. The scope has a focal length of 180mm that allows viewing of large emission nebulae such as California, heart and Soul and Rosette. Using such a small scope does create field curvature problems at the edges and corners, but still presents a nice view of the DSO.

These images are captures taken during near real time viewing of the Comet Lovejoy with the SX Lodestar X2c and an Orion 50mm mini guide scope at f3.2 (162mm).

These captures were taken during near real time viewing sessions using a SX Lodestar X2 and X2c CCD camera. The image processing was controled by the new version of Lodestar Live v0.11 authored by Paul in the UK. The program is easy to use and provides hours of enjoyable NRTV with the Lodestars. The new version provides for better color control and auto histogram scaling. Thanks, Paul for producing a wonderful addition to EAA.

These captures were made during a near real time viewing session using a SX Lodestar X2c camera and Loadstar Live software. The wide FOV was the result of using an Orion 50mm mini guider at it's native focal length of 162mm. A narrow band 7nm Ha filter was also used to enhance the contrast of emission nebulae. Thanks to Dom for developing this technique for the color version of the Lodestar.

These images of globular clusters were captures taken during a near real time EAA viewing session. They demonstrate the ability for Lodestar Live to balance the exposure with non linear scaling.

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.

These images were captured during a near real time viewing session using the SX Ultrastar C and M cameras and Starlight Live software developed by Paul Shears in the UK.

These images were captured during a live broadcast on NSN from Mauna Kea, Hawaii at 9200'.  The near real time views were captured using a SX Ultrastar C camera and Paul Shears' Starlight Live software on a Macbook Pro.  The scope setup was an Evolution 6 equipped with Hyperstar.  Exposure and stacking info is in the caption of each image.  Single exposures show no info and all are 30 sec or less.

f ratio comparison

These are captures takes from near real time viewing using a Starlight Xpress 674C camera and Starlight Live software.