Showing posts with label DSLR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DSLR. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

First Planetary AP Ever ! Jupiter !

Want to see what I can do from my Fremont backyard for a long time.
I got an Orion tube ring for my 10" Dob and mount it on the Mach1.
It is heavy and I have to use all 3 counterweight plus some dummy weight from Sports Authority.


I just would like to give planetary AP a try so I use my DSLR (Canon T3i) and control with BYEOS.
With the 5x LiveView video, it gives me almost 1:1 pix scale.


Not too bad from the first try !!


Did some quick and dirty process and here is the result.
A lot more to learn.


The funny part for planetary AP is you take 1hr to setup and tear down. But only get something like 2min video...

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Mobile AP Setup

Sometimes I feel lazy to setup the whole AP gears.
I use iOptron SkyTracker to shot very wide field image.


This is my backyard at Fremont, CA


This is the ISON comet I took at 2013/Oct.