I bought this nifty little point and shoot Canon camera that has some pretty cool features.
This one is “Star” mode which takes am 11 second exposure and processes it in camera to enhance the stars and night sky.
This image is a 6 panel mosaic that was assemble in Photoshop using the Automate Photomerge feature. The image was taken the night of June 28th 2014 at our annual astronomy club picnic/star party. I just set up on a regular tripod and took the 6 images attempting to catch the Milky Way band running from north to south. That glow low on the right side is the city of Williams Arizona.
This next image was just a series of 5 images taken through my telescope lens of the moon from top to bottom. Again assembled in Photoshop using the same method. I did have to sharpen and run a little noise removal on the final assembled image. This image series was simply point and shoot using full “Auto”.
Hi Russ! You’ve got an incredible setup, I’m especially jealous of your observatory setup. Do you or other Flagstaff imagers ever get together to image or talk about equipment/techniques/etc? I haven’t yet been to any of the CAS get togethers but plan to in the near future, maybe that’s the best place to start?
Clear skies,
Eric M