NASA: DMK 21AF04 Captures Vanishing Rings Of Saturn
On March 18, 2008 SCIENCE@NASA reported on The Vanishing Rings of Saturn:
Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can’t help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.
Red Alert: Saturn’s rings are vanishing.
Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn’s wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line. Efrain Morales Rivera sends these pictures taken through a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
The article was accompanied by the following image, which was captured using a DMK 21AF04 FireWire camera:
Last week, I was in contact with Efrain Morales, who sent me the remainder of the image (click for full size version):
His hardware was as follows:
Meade LX2000GPS, 10″ OTA. Celestron CGE, DMK 21AF04 CCD camera, TeleVue 3x Barlows, Baarder UV/IR fiter, Astronomik LRGB filter set.
We congratulate Efrain Morales for having his work published by SCIENCE@NASA and thank him for sharing his images with the rest of the astronomy cameras community.
Mark Schneider said,
April 20, 2008 @ 16:53
Fantastic images!!! Keep up the good work.
Efrain Morales said,
April 22, 2008 @ 02:15
Thanks Mark for your kind words and Clear Skies my friend.
Tommy said,
April 23, 2008 @ 14:54
If your using a monochrome camera, what was the process for making it color?
williams said,
April 25, 2008 @ 03:51
HI
The images of satern would not have been taken with that size telescopes I have got a c/11 telescope celestron and a imager/41AU02.AS and I have taken images of satern with 41AU02AS
so why tell lies.
Alphajuno said,
April 27, 2008 @ 01:17
Williams,
These images are on par with good seeing and that size telescope. I had some really good images on a really good night and that makes all the difference…
Efrain Morales said,
April 27, 2008 @ 20:39
Hi Tommy, It’s simple first you would need a filter wheel assy. and a set photographic ccd filter set (LRGB) and depending on the object your timings for each color set and processed all and combine by stacking and aligning each color with the final results. Clear Skies
Efrain Morales said,
April 27, 2008 @ 20:48
To Mr Williams, To Answer your UnEducated question and accusation. According to drive train setups and barlows sys used and of course the camera being used it will give you a different fov. Next time ask a respecful quetion and you will get a more respecful answer!.