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Photos taken by Jim
Windlinger: Holy cow WOW!
The following photos show
the amazing results possible when you have a mere 60" of aperture
and a digital camera
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I used a
Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera held behind a Celestron 26mm Silvertop
Plossl with a custom machined bracket. The power at the eyepiece was
923x.
I then used the optical zoom on the camera to get the image to
nearly fill the screen. I oversample the image so much to minimize the
Jpeg artifacts. The only processing done was a rescale, level adjust, and a
mild unsharp mask using Picture Window 2.5.
The exposure times were
1/15th second for Jupiter, and 1/8th second for Saturn.
Included are some photos of the telescope that was used for the Saturn and Jupiter images above.
Jim Windlinger
The following images
were taken by OCA Vice President Jay Glowacki and show the little itsy
bitsy telescope which has helped produce such amazing photos as shown
above
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