Astronomy and Astrophotography
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Solar system astrophotography
- Planetary imaging with atmospheric dispersion corrector
- What is better - short exposures with high gain or longer exposures with lower gain?
- Showcasing my planetary Dall Kirkham telescope
- Astrophotography - hobby with nice views and lots of hardware
- Christopher Go Planetary imaging video tutorials
Planets
- Saturn imaging tips
- Optimizing UV Venus imaging
- Imaging Jupiter in ammonia absorption bands
- Catching Jupiter inner and outer mini moons
- What about imaging sodium and sulphur clouds in the Jupiter - Io system?
- Luminance filters in planetary astrophotography
Moon
- Lunar petrographic imaging - showing minerals and age in colors
- My filters and first results of lunar petrographic imaging
Sun
- Filters for white ligh solar imaging with a Herschel wedge
- Solar H-alpha imaging and observing with a 35 mm Lunt
- Image alignment with imgalt for stop motion astronomical animations
- Baader ASF - ready to use AstroSolar filters
Processing planetary images
- Features of FireCapture 2.2
- Processing planetary images
- Planetary, Lunar and Solar image stacking in Autostakkert2
- Stacking and sharpening planetary images in practice
- Castrator and Autostakkert tutorial
- Planetary maps and de-rotation with WinJUPOS
- Creating LRGB images from color cameras
Planetary cameras
- Solar System imaging cameras and hardware for 2019
- Planetary cameras and equipment for 2016
- Solar System imaging cameras of 2015 - winners, announcements and new cameras
- Cameras and equipment for Solar System imaging in 2014
- New Solar System imaging cameras for 2013
- Laptops with ExpressCard slots for use with fast planetary cameras
- Powerful modern imaging sets for planetary, lunar and solar imaging
Webcams
- Testing webcams in planetary astrophotography
- MS LifeCams in planetary and lunar astrophotography
- MS Lifecam Studio conversion for Solar System photography
- Cheap USB 2.0 webcams are quite disappointing
Small planetary cameras
- Cheap guider and color planetary camera - QHY5R-II
- Flea 3 with ICX618 CCD - the best thing for planetary imaging
- Testing Point Grey Firefly MV cameras
- Small, cheap and good cameras for planetary and lunary imaging
- First tests of Basler Ace acA640-100gm for planetary imaging
- Testing Basler Scout scA640-120gm
- Tips for imaging planets with DMK21
- Looking at cheap high resolution analogue cameras for video astronomy use
Bigger lunar/solar and universal cameras
- Testing Ximea XiC MC023MG-SY camera with mono IMX174 sensor
- Simple and non-invasive cooling of ASI120M camera
- Testing Point Grey Blackfly BFLY-PGE-05S2M-CS camera in planetary imaging
- Testing xiQ cameras with big mono CMV4000 CMOSIS sensors for solar imaging
- Point Grey Chameleon - lunar and solar camera
- Testing IDS Imaging UI-1245LE-M-GL camera in planetary, lunar and solar astrophotography
- Review of IDS Imaging UI-1240ML-NIR-GL camera
- Testing fast USB3 camera - Ximea xiQ MQ013MG-E2
- Testing Tucsen Discovery M15 sCMOS camera
- Taking a quick look at Sony IMX174 CMOS sensor
Planetary imaging other hardware
- Industry filters in planetary astrophotography
- Testing Baader professional and amateur LRGB filters
- IDAS Type 4 filters for visual and infrared color imaging
DS imaging
- RedCat 51 and ToupTek ATR3-16000-KPA for lightweight astrophotography
- Lenses in DS astrophotography
- What can you expect from new cooled CMOS based cameras in DS astrophotography?
- Fighting light pollution with Astronomik CLS and CLS-CCD filters
- Helium, argon, neutral oxygen and other bands in narrowband imaging
- Choosing Edmund Optics filters for helium, oxygen and argon narrowband imaging
- How to guide a mount with PHD?
- Astrophotography acquisition and processing in Nebulosity
- Making HDR images of deep space objects in IRIS
- Wide field imaging with DMK/DBK/DFK cameras and CS lens
DS imaging hardware
- Quick look at Omegon veTEC 432 M camera
- Sesto Senso 2 motofocuser quick review
- Brightstar Mammut Lyuba L429-M - new entry level camera
- QHY5 and Atik Titan guide star finding comparison
- Atik Titan - a handy guider and imaging camera
- Celestron Radial Guider and Brightstar Advanced Off Axis Guider
- TS 1,25" and 2" filter drawer review
- Cooling solutions for QHY5
- Quick test of a Optec NextGen 0.5 SCT reducer
- TSFlip - Flip Mirror and Off Axis Guiding System in one device
- IDAS Type 4 filters for visual and infrared color imaging
Spectroscopy
- Prism spectroscope and some astronomy fun
- Capturing and processing spectrums with Star Analyser
- Sirius spectrum
- Saturn absorption bands recorded with Star Analyser
Other
- Mounting custom industrial filters in astronomical filter cells
- MightMak 60 - small and cheap maksutov telescope
- Takahashi Collimation Telescope for RC, DK, SCT and Cassegrain telescope collimation
- Quick review of few recent astrophotography books
- Astrophotography on a Teclast X80h tablet running Windows 8.1 on a classical x86_64 Intel CPU
- Stability of heavy scopes on popular mounts
- A quick look at Baader Hyperion Zoom Barlow
- Comparing photography to astrophotography
- Polar re-alignment on stars in new SkyWatcher SynScan firmware
- Home made SCT cooler
- Small fan assembly for cooling SCT during use
- Cooling cams with USB powered Peltier devices
- ASCOM for end user application developers
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