Planets



Venus 04/23/2004 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm Eyepiece (Stacked using Registax)
Mars 07/18/2003 - Afocal with 16" scope at Cherry Grove - no tripod used (a little shaky)
Mars 08/08/2003 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm Eyepiece (Stacked using Registax)


Mars 08/11/2003 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm Eyepiece and 2x barlow
Note: Although the telescope configuration allowed for higher magnification my camera was set for slightly less magnification than last (08/08/2003) image.
Mars 08/21/2003 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10 mm Eyepiece
Mars 02/21/2004 and 08/08/2003 Comparison Image
Jupiter 03/15/2002 - Afocal (Stacked using AstroStack)
Jupiter showing Ganymede, IO and Europa (with chart) 01/03/2003 - Afocal
Jupiter showing IO and Callisto 04/21/2003 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 25mm eyepiece Camera: Sony Mavica digital camera
Jupiter 04/01/2004 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm eyepiece Camera: Sony Mavica digital camera Stacked using Registax
Jupiter 04/23/2004 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor Camera: Sony Mavica digital camera Stacked using Registax


Jupiter 02/17/2005 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 25mm eyepiece and 2x barlow lense, Camera: Canon EOS-10D with 50mm f/1.4 lense Exposure: 1/30 sec at ISO 800

Jupiter 03/01/2005 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 25mm eyepiece and 2x barlow lense, Camera: Canon EOS-10D with 50mm f/1.4 lense Exposure: 1/20 sec at ISO 800
03/01/2005 03:04 CST

Note: The dark spot that moves between exposures is the shadow of one of Jupiter's moons, IO


03/01/2005 03:42 CST

Note: These images were sharpened by applying an unsharp mask at 500% with a pixel ratio of 3.0 and a threshold of 0 level and a gaussian blur of 1.2 pixels as suguested on the Minnesota Astronomical Society forum on this topic: Jupiter



Saturn

Saturn 03/02/2005 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor, 10mm eyepiece with 2x barlow lense. Camera: Canon EOS-10D with 50mm lense (stacked using Registax)


Saturn 05/21/2008 - Quick Cam (lense removed) positive projection with a 9mm eyepiece - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor - 50 frames stacked using Registax




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