August 29, 2006 - Uranus and Neptune and Solar System
Here are my latest planetary pics! Although both planets don't say much other then their color, it is next to imposible to capture any other detail. Even in the largest of earth based telescopes you will only see a colored disk without any cloud details. So that being said I am extramly happy with these results and I believe them to be my best planetary pics I have ever done!
Uranus - Taken with a Meade 10" LX200 SCT, Canon G3 digital camera, 25mm ep and 2x barlow. Picture is composed of 36 stacked exposures of 4 seconds each. The camera was set at 4x zoom with f/3.2 and ISO50. The actual picture was slightly underexposed which worked to my advantage and provided with a fairly good color representation. In this image however some color fringing was evident so after doing some sharpening, it seemed to remove some or most of the color fringe.
Neptune - This is also my bets neptune pic I ever took. This was again taken with the same equipment as the uranus shot except that I used a 40mm eyepiece and 2x barlow. The planet was too faint on the 25mm eyepeice and became next to impossible to focus the planet. This picture was composed of 10 stacked images at 3 second exposures, 4x zoom and ISO50 at f3.2. Again the planet was very underexposed but after adjusting the curves on each frame in photoshop it seemed to work quite well with the color balance.
A portriat of the solar system which includes pictures taken at different times and with different telescopes including the last two uranus and neptune shots! All pics taken by me.
Uranus - Taken with a Meade 10" LX200 SCT, Canon G3 digital camera, 25mm ep and 2x barlow. Picture is composed of 36 stacked exposures of 4 seconds each. The camera was set at 4x zoom with f/3.2 and ISO50. The actual picture was slightly underexposed which worked to my advantage and provided with a fairly good color representation. In this image however some color fringing was evident so after doing some sharpening, it seemed to remove some or most of the color fringe.
Neptune - This is also my bets neptune pic I ever took. This was again taken with the same equipment as the uranus shot except that I used a 40mm eyepiece and 2x barlow. The planet was too faint on the 25mm eyepeice and became next to impossible to focus the planet. This picture was composed of 10 stacked images at 3 second exposures, 4x zoom and ISO50 at f3.2. Again the planet was very underexposed but after adjusting the curves on each frame in photoshop it seemed to work quite well with the color balance.
A portriat of the solar system which includes pictures taken at different times and with different telescopes including the last two uranus and neptune shots! All pics taken by me.
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