Moon 14th April 2011

Moon 14th April 2011 23:00hrs , Equipment MTO11CA Russentonne (small Telescope)

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Very nice !! I was expecting a little more... But still rather cool as is.

Did you see something specific in the video or were you just showing the video itself?

Nicely done!

You can see it's battle scars from the Orion Wars.

Beautiful. That must be some great equipment you have

Thanks to all

Its just the Moon no special things to see but always worth to share some nice views

Here is mine (from the same day (it seems we had the same idea while looking out of the window))




Celestron FirstScope (76/300mm reflector, new, $50)
Logitech QuickCam Express (360*270 Pixel CMOS, very poor quality webcam, $5)
IBM Thinkpad T40 (old, used, $400),
Linux, slightly tweaked qc_usb webcam driver, xawtv, imagemagick, wine, IRIS ($0)

300 frames captured with xawtv, converted to FITS with imagemagick,
subpixel aligned and drizzled with IRIS (oversampling factor 3)
VanCittert deconvolution with IRIS

Originally posted by prof7
Here is mine (from the same day (it seems we had the same idea while looking out of the window))




Celestron FirstScope (76/300mm reflector, new, $50)
Logitech QuickCam Express (360*270 Pixel CMOS, very poor quality webcam, $5)
IBM Thinkpad T40 (old, used, $400),
Linux, slightly tweaked qc_usb webcam driver, xawtv, imagemagick, wine, IRIS ($0)

300 frames captured with xawtv, converted to FITS with imagemagick,
subpixel aligned and drizzled with IRIS (oversampling factor 3)
VanCittert deconvolution with IRIS

Wow very nice!!! for a $50 scope good job

Originally posted by Bosb33r
Wow very nice!!! for a $50 scope good job

:-)

The FirstScope is actually not as bas as one might expect for that price. The worst part are the eyepieces that come with it.

For photographing the above I brought the image sensor (disassembled camera and glued a sawed off plastic screw cap onto it to hold the small board) directly into the focal plane, no glass was between the sensor chip and the moon, only 2 mirrors, no poor eyepieces could ruin the image:





The wost part of my setup is the really poor camera, only 360*270 pixel and very noisy CMOS, here is how an origial frame directly from the camera looks:



and all the rest is only image processing of many such frames combined into one higher resolved image until it looks like this:



I finally managed to remove most of this ugly 3 pixel wide fixed pattern noise from the image I posted in my earlier post. I want to know how far I can get with this cheap setup and where exactly the limits are before I start throwing any money at this because I fear this could become very expensive very fast once I really start doing this more seriously.