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Astrophotography and Telescope
I have interrest for astrophotography and have had some fun with modifying a web camera for this purpose and
modifying the motorcontroller for my equatorial head.
Planets (Saturn and Jupiter)
Galaxies and star clusters
Nebulae
Exoplanet observation
Sun pilar above Norwegian mountains
Autoguider modification of my telescope motor controler
(Measurements on my ART285 ccd-camera)
Equipment:
Reflector:
200 mm f5 Skywatcher
with EQ5-mount. Motorized in two axes. Homemade autoguider-interface.
Refractor:
70 mm f13 Skywatcher
with EQ2-mount. Motorized in the equatorial axis.
Various oculars, 2x Barlow, 5x Powermate (TeleVue).
Cameras:
Art285 ccd-camera,
SC2-modified a Phillips Toucam-840K webcam with Peltier cooling,
an an unmodified TouCam.
Software:
Cartes du Ciel map of the sky,
K3CCDTools for webcam recording and processing,
Artemis Capture for the Art285 camera.
Interresting discussion groups:
QCUIAG
ArtemisCCD
narrowbandimaging
Erlend Rønnekleiv,
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