As opposition is nearing Mars is about as big as it is going to get for taking pictures. I finally got my Svbony SV305 astrocam working (sort of) with Sharpcap. Not entirely there yet. The picture was taken at prime focus and 4000 frames stacked. Need to buy an extra external hard drive because the…
The first capture of Saturn I am sort-of happy about. Specs: variable projection 6mm with Canon DSLR movie mode. 3x 3minute videos joined in PIPP for a total of 14000 frames of which just over half were kept and half of those stacked in AS3. Wavelets in Registax are still black magic to me, might…
COVID19 was a reason for a lot of people to get seriously interested in stargazing. A lot of telescopes are currently out of stock all over the world due to shipping and production issues. As with everything, mostly Made in China applies. There are a few considerations when choosing a telescope. Below I well go…
YouTube video from Prof David Kipping explaining his theory on using the Sun as a gravitational lens, or on a smaller scale the Earth as a refractive lens to build a very large telescope! Click “Read more” to get to the video below:
The Great Red Spot is a persistent storm on Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. It has been continuously observed since 1878. There are some earlier observations of a storm on Jupiter dating back to the 1600s. If it is the same storm it has been raging on for over 350 years or so. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 1.3…