Over the weekend of the 19-20 July 2009, the CWAS Astrofest was held at Parkes, NSW. It’s an annual event that also includes the David Malin Awards – Australia’s premier astrophotography competition. The David Malin Awards are judged by, of course, world-renowned professional astrophotographer, David Malin who was the photographic scientist-astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Telescope [...]
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My Journey in Astronomy – 5 Years Since It All Began!
My wife will tell you – I don’t get into hobbies lightly. I become engrossed in them, obsessed It becomes a passion, not just a hobby. And so it was when in June 2004, I decided that I was going to start pursuing my interest in Astronomy and take it up as a hobby. Now, [...]
Jupiter and the NEB Outbreak
Another quite nice night on the 29th August, with the WSZ and NEB outbreak on display. The seeing improved as the session went along, however it was cut a little short just after meridian flip when the temperatures dropped suddenly and caused tube currents to distort the image. By the time I’d cooled the mirror [...]
RGB Planetary Imaging with a Monochrome Camera
Planetary Imaging is a fast growing field of astrophotography – boosted by tech-savvy amateur astronomers, larger and cheaper (but good quality) telescopes becoming more accessible, and the proliferation of low-cost webcams as imaging devices which can capture up to 60 frames per second (fps) without compression. It’s never been easier to try your hand at [...]
Planetary Imaging and Image Processing
There are many factors that influence high-resolution planetary imaging, the most important in getting any high quality image is the seeing. If the data is great to begin with, then very little processing is actually required to end up with a great image. However most of us don’t have the luxury of imaging in an [...]
Astrophotography with a Dob
Dobsonians are usually purchased for their cheap aperture, quick setup and ease of use for beginners. People don’t buy dobsonians with a plan to doing astrophotography. In fact, i’ve read many times that astrophotography with a dob just can’t be done and that you shouldn’t bother trying. Well i’m here to tell you that it [...]
A busy night on Jupiter
I’d been looking forward to this busy night on Jupiter for over a week and was lucky enough to wake to clear skies and above average seeing. Unfortunately though, I’d only captured 3 runs before blanket cloud put an early end to the session. Very disappointing, as I had a feeling the seeing would’ve improved [...]
Jupiter + 3 red spots from the 9th May
This image of Jupiter with its 3 red spots was captured on the morning of the 9th May 2008. The smallest of the three is fast heading for a collision with the GRS – likely to happen in the next 3 weeks. Will be very interesting to see what happens when they meet. [image:697:c] Thanks [...]
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