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Venus Crescent and other Galileoscope targets | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Venus Crescent and other Galileoscope targets. November 24, 2013. It has been a while since the last post due to other commitments, an inconsiderate flu, and travel. So long, in fact, that Venus has moved appreciably in its orbit, passed greatest eastern elongation and is now distinctly crescent-shaped:. 8230; and a morning view of the waning gibbous Moon in daylight:.
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Gallery | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Moon, planets, comets, space stations. View 4 albums 0 photos (56). Star Clusters, Galaxies, Nebulae. Soon to come: Raytracing with POV-Ray and more. Unless otherwise stated, all astrophotos were taken with a Celestron CPC 800 XLT (8″ f/10 SCT) using a Flea 3 camera (FL3-GE-13S2-C). Venus Crescent and other Galileoscope targets. On Crescents crescents everywhere.
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin | Amateur astronomy blog and gallery | Page 2
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. First attempt at a galaxy …. June 5, 2013. 8230; and not too enthusiastic about the result:. It seems I turned the sunflower galaxy M63 into a faint blurry something. Also, I think what we see here is only the bright core of the galaxy, maybe about 3 arcminutes in diameter. Six moons and a planet. June 5, 2013. The process I use is to take a few short exposure fram...
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Gallery | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Moon, planets, comets, space stations. View 4 albums 0 photos (56). Star Clusters, Galaxies, Nebulae. Soon to come: Raytracing with POV-Ray and more. Unless otherwise stated, all astrophotos were taken with a Celestron CPC 800 XLT (8″ f/10 SCT) using a Flea 3 camera (FL3-GE-13S2-C). Venus Crescent and other Galileoscope targets. On Crescents crescents everywhere.
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Amateur Astronomy | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Amateur Astronomy. September 3, 2013. Ok, so tiny may not be the best word for an ice giant 14 times heavier than the Earth, but is sure doesn’t look big from 3 billion kilometers away. Six moons and a planet. June 5, 2013. And because that is really just a lot of dots without context, here is an annotated version. The process I use is to take a few short expos...
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A six-pack of telescopes | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. A six-pack of telescopes. May 24, 2013. After seeing an image taken with a Galileoscope. Posted on the Astronomy Forum. Originally introduced as a $15 telescope for the international year of astronomy 2009. It is now sold at the Galileoscope website. Opening the first kit revealed that there was more assembly involved than I had expected: A total of 31 parts form a motoric challe...
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Image Processing | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Image Processing. Astronomical and other image processing using standard software or HALCON. September 9, 2013. As can be seen, imaging through that much atmosphere severly degrades image quality. Turbulence in the air smears the image, and dispersion (due to wavelength-dependency of refraction) turns objects into little rainbows (in fact, for bright object...
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Astrophotography | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Mostly notifications and reports of images taken myself. December 1, 2013. The forecast promised a few clear hours in the evening, so I set up the 8″ scope. Cloud cover remained almost complete, but Venus managed to peek through a few times:. Lighter clouds and therefore diminished. Venus Crescent and other Galileoscope targets. November 24, 2013. September 9, 2013. I finally man...
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January | 2014 | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: January 2014. January 7, 2014. My postings are lagging a bit behind with respect current events, but I still wanted to share this image of Venus taken December 29th, around two weeks before inferior conjunction:. I’m quite happy with the way this turned out. Venus Crescent and other Galileoscope targets. On Crescents crescents everywhere. If you experience probl...
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Another Venus crescent | Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin
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Personal Pages of Christian Fröschlin. Amateur astronomy blog and gallery. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. December 1, 2013. The forecast promised a few clear hours in the evening, so I set up the 8″ scope. Cloud cover remained almost complete, but Venus managed to peek through a few times:. Since these appearances were short and variable I did not manage to configure good camera settings and most frames were overexposed. In the end I deliberately used 300 frames taken through.
