My first image - a small section of the moon

[arad85]

Hi all,

Inspired by all the fabulous images I see here, I had to start somewhere and this is my first sensible attempt at an image. Taken 1/6/09 at about 9:30 (so still very light and taken through the heat haze that was over the house next door). Just pointed the scope (which was unaligned, but set to track on lunar rate)/camera and captured.

Equipment used: CG5-GT, C9.25, unmodded SPC900 webcam, in colour mode. I think around 1/33 sec shutter, 25fps.

Processing:

First one, 50/3000 frames in registax5, some wavelet processing and then some curve adjustment/deinterlacing/colour->b/w in Photoshop

Second one 1001/3000 frames in registax5 with some wavelet, deringing and colour->b/w all done in registax.

At least I've started :-)

[steppenwolf]

Excellent, irrespective of whether they are your first or not - you are on the road, well done!

[Psychobilly]

I agree with Steve... or Should it be

Peter....

[arad85]

Thanks guys...

[ApolloMatt]

Good stuff!

I must try webcam imaging instead of prime focus with my DSLR, I'm using a mac so the Meade LPI and Celestron Neximage do not work. I could use bootcamp but want to avoid this. Does anybody have a fix.

I just downloaded Macam which works with my Sony eye cam so I might just pull it to bits, pull of the lens and try that.

Matt

[jgs001]

Very nicely done... the SPC900 is USB1, so you really want to aim at 5 or 10 fps, perhaps pushing 15 to avoid risk of compression loss on the transfer to the PC, although I don't know quite what that results in... on video...

[arad85]

Crikey, this is an old post........ Thanks guys