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Asteroid 2004 XP14
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 4th July 2006 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, Bucks., UK using a 14" SCT and a Meade DSI- Pro at f/5. 6 minutes exposure. Apollo asteroid 2004 XP14 made a close approach to the Earth on the nights of 3/4th July. Image taken on 4 July 2006 at 23:43 UT when the asteroid was at approximately 12th magnitude passing through the constellation of Draco - travelling at around 1 arc min per minute.
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Saturn
Credit: Paul Millington & Ed Davies
Taken: 25th November 2005 from the Chiltern Observatory, Amersham, Bucks, UK using a Meade 10" SCT and a Philips Webcam.
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Mars - 2005 apparation
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 5th October 00:52 with a NextStar 11, Vesta webcam x3 Barlow Processed with Registax. This shows Solis Lacus, the dark spot just below the centre, a small South Polar cap to the bottom and a North Polar hood at the top.
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Mars - 2005 apparation
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 5th October 02:32 NexStar 11, Vesta webcam x3 Barlow Processed with Registax. By now Solis Lacus has moved to the right and the darker feature to the left is the Mare Sirenum. It is just possible that the lighter spot above the centre is Olympus Mons.
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Mars - 2005 apparation
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 9th October, 23:02, WAS scope, x2 barlow and Vesta Pro. Processed with Registax. The South polar cap is visible to the lower left, the large dark feature is Mare Erythraeum and the lighter feature North of it is Chryse.
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Mars - 2005 apparation
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 15th October, 23:46, NexStar11 with x3 Barlow and Vesta webcam. The large dark feature to the right is Syrtis Major, the dark line across the centre is Sinus Sabaeus. The large light area is Aeria to the right and Moab to the right. The South Polar cap is now noticeably smaller.
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Mars - 2005 apparation
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 27th October, 23:19, WAS scope x2 Barlow, Vesta webcam. By now the South polar cap, to the lower left, is not visible. The dark
features are the Mars Tyrrhenum to the upper left and Mare Cimmerium to the centre and Mare Sirenum to the lower right.
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Saturn
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 8th Feb 2005 from High Wycombe using a NexStar11 and a Meade Deep Sky Imager. This is one of the first images taaken with the new DSI. The image is a composite of 50 images selected using the AutoStar software, then sharpened with Registax3. Chris didn't quite manage to get the colour setting right - still it gives an impression of what can be done with the DSI straight out of the box.
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Saturn
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: 6 February 2005 from Andalsnes Observatory, Amersham, Bucks, UK using a LX200 GPS 14inch and a Webcam plus 2.5 Televue Power Mate and Baader IR filter at f/22. 210 second exposure. Taken on an evening of relatively poor seeing. Toucam Pro webcam - 210 second avi. Stacked and processed in Registax.
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The Asteroid Touatis
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 23rd September, 2004 from High Wycombe with a NexStar11 GPS telescope and a webcam with a 0.4 focal reducer at f/4. The dashed line shows a series of 25 by 5 second exposures. 5 exposures were combined to give the dashed line showing the movement of the asteroid over about 30 minutes.
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Saturn
Credit: Fred Stevenson
Taken: March 1, 2004 18:53 - LX200 GPS 14inch - Starlight Express MX516 taken by Fred Stevenson - Andalsnes Observatory Amersham England.
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Mars
Credit: Gerry Doyle
Taken at COAA Observatory, Portimao, Portugal with a 18" Newtonian, stopped down to about 8" and a Philips ToUcam 740. 1 min AVI clip at 15Hz and 1/50ths Newtonian prime focus to capture the AVI with Astrovideo processed in Registax.
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Mars
Credit: Gerry Doyle
Taken 16 Sep 2003 from Medmenham, Marlow, England with a Celestron C-6N Newtonian and a Philips ToUcam 740. 1 min AVI captured at f/8 with Astrovideo, stacked and combined in Registax. |
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Saturn
Credit: Gerry Doyle
Taken January 2004 from Medmenham, Marlow, England with a Meade 8" LX200 and a Philips ToUcam 740. Toucam working at 320x240 at SCT prime focus. Captured with Astrovideo, stacked and processed with Registax. 1 min AVI at f/10. |
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Mars at 2003 closest approach
Credit: David Godwin
Taken using 8-inch Dobsonian telescope with Nikon 990 camera. |
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Saturn
Credit: David Godwin
Taken using 8-inch Dobsonian telescope with Nikon 990 camera. |
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Pluto
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 14th & 15th July 2003
Acquired with an NS11 with a focal reducer to about f/4.
Exposure 32 frames of 12 seconds each using a web cam modified
for long exposures, but not cooled, dark frame subtracted and
the range stretched to make the background dark and the stars bright.
The original images were very noisy as Pluto was low in the
murk, sky glow and light pollution. Chris used K3CCDTools to acquire
the images and Registax and/or Iris to register and process the
images.
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Mars 2003 closest approach
Credit: Paul Millington
Taken: 27th August 2003
Through Meade LX200 with Toucam webcam processed using K3CCD
Radius 10 strength 565 |
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Mars 2003 closest approach
Credit: Paul Millington
Taken: 27th August 2003
Through Meade LX200 with Toucam webcam processed using
K3CCD Radius 09 Strength 710 |
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Mars 2003 closest approach
Credit: Chris Rowland
Taken: 21st June 04:18 BST.
Celestron NexStar 11GPS with Webcam and 3x Barlow. Seeing was
poor but polar cap obvious and central dark marking is Syrtis
Major. 600 frames acquired at 5 FPS using K3CCDTools, exposure
1/25th second, low gain. Processed using Registax to register
and stack the best 75 or so frames, then sharpened using the
wavelet processing in Registax. AstroAlign program used to align
RGB channels. Paint Shop Pro was used to reduce the
blue levels slightly.
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Jupiter and the four Galilian moons
Credit: David Godwin
Taken 5th February 2003 with Nikon 990 camera through 8"
Dobsonian telescope. |
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Crescent Venus
Credit: John Fifield
Eyepiece projection using Meade 90mm ETX 40mm lens and Barlow
giving 62 power. ASA 400 film f2.8 2 seconds 02/01/98. |
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Jupiter Animation
Credit: Chris Rowland
Animation of Jupiter showing the GRS and Io. Taken on the 29th December 2001 with an 8.75" reflector and a Webcam. |
