Photos of The Moon, The Sun, Planets and Nebula
While reading the Catching the Light blog, I came across a link to a high resolution image captured by Alan Friedman that shows magnificent details of the lunar craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel and Davy.
To capture this image, Alan deployed The Imaging Source DMK 21BF04 FireWire camera, 10″ Astro-Physics Maksutov-Cassegrain at F/30 (click for original):
On exploring Alan’s web site, I came across the following spectacular images:
Prominence Panorama. A mosaic of images captured through the Zeiss APQ130 at F/15 and Coronado Solarmax 90 HAlpha filter and DMK monochrome FireWire camera (click for original):
Saturn on Good Friday. Astro-Physics 10″ Maksutov, Cassegrain at F/45, Baader FFC and The Imaging Source DMK 21BF04 FireWire camera (click for original):
M57 – the Ring Nebula. Luminance – 60x.5 minutes, A-P 10″ mak at f9, RGB – A-P 4.1″ Traveler at F/5.8, The Imaging Source DMK 21BF04 FireWire camera (click for original):
His web site – www.AvertedImagination.com – offers a great number of very artistic images, a large number of which have been captured with The Imaging Source FireWire cameras. Enjoy.
Philippe Barraud said,
June 6, 2007 @ 10:33
Alan Friedman is a magician! He must have sort of a lunar module to fly over the Moon to get so beautifully sharp images!
Philippe
Alexandros Diamantis said,
July 17, 2007 @ 12:52
Excellent images, in particular Moon craters, Ptolemeaus etc. Fantastic. I would like to know the difference between DMK 21AF and 21BF. Is it the trigger. What’s the trigger’s job?
Jonathan Maron said,
July 17, 2007 @ 15:38
Hello Alexandros
Yes, you are right: The DMK 21AF04 does not have a trigger, while the DMK 21BF04 does. If a camera has a trigger input, it simply means that the camera can send an image every time a signal is received.
For example, when bottles in a brewery are filled on a production line, they pass a sensor that sends a signal to the camera. When the camera receives this signal (the “trigger”), it takes a photo of the passing bottle. The photo can then be sent to a computer and analyzed (sorting out the incorrectly filled bottles appropriately).
Anna said,
November 6, 2008 @ 01:38
Wow that is sharp image!
Anna
Jan Ingwersen said,
January 23, 2009 @ 17:15
Great pix,
How do you get it to do the long exposures (M57) the specs say 3.75fps.
Does the PHD (stark-labs) Software allow you to guide with integration times of more than 1s with the DMK21AF?
Thanks
Jan