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How to Make Bahtinov Mask, PDF Templates - DeepSky Watch. Introduction Focusing mask which was invented by Pavel Bahtinov is considered to be the easiest, the fastest and an accurate tool for manual focusing.

How to Make Bahtinov Mask, PDF Templates - DeepSky Watch

During the focusing procedure the mask is placed in front of telescope's aperture and then the telescope should be pointed to a bright star. Bahtinov mask produces 3 diffraction spikes: Two of them form an "X" shape, and another spike crosses it, forming a "Ж" shape. The central spike moves left or right (relative to the diagonal "X" spikes) according to focus position. MFN rule for exposure time. J’ai développé en 2010 une règle qui permet de calculer (assez) facilement le temps de pose maximal pour prendre un ciel étoilé en photo sans que les étoiles ne filent trop.

MFN rule for exposure time

Cette règle se substitue à l’antique « règle des 500 » qui donne des résultats trop incertains. La règle NPF est un peu plus complexe que la règle des 500. Mais elle a le mérite de donner immédiatement et à coup sûr le temps de pose idéal pour avoir des étoiles bien ponctuelles quand on prend des photos sans suivi. La règle NPF est implémentée dans diverses applications, par exemple PhotoPills, PlanIt! Amazon. Photons to Photos. Imaging - Tips, Tricks and Techniques. Welcome to Stargazers Lounge Register now to gain access to all of our features.

Imaging - Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Once registered and logged in, you will be able to create topics, post replies to existing threads, give reputation to your fellow members, get your own private messenger, post status updates, manage your profile and so much more. If you already have an account, login here - otherwise create an account for free today! <div class='message error'><strong>Javascript Disabled Detected</strong><p>You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Astrophotography with Canon EOS. Astrophotography is the imaging of celestial objects such as the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, stars, clusters, nebulae and galaxies.

Astrophotography with Canon EOS

Astrophotography captures the beauty and majesty of the night sky and wonders of the universe. ASTROTIPS. Celestial Objects. Astronomers don't know why Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot has been gradually shrinking since the 1800s — or why the downsizing has accelerated during the past two years.

Celestial Objects

Thanks to the planet's immensity, seeing Jupiter through a telescope can be very satisfying. Its two main cloud belts appear in most any backyard setup, and... Photographer jgsoto@hotmail.com Date/Time of photo April 15, 2014. Camera Only Astrophotography. Astrophotography – Without a Telescope Author: RalphC Published: December 29th, 2011.

Camera Only Astrophotography

Astronomy Source. Astrophotography. Heavens-Above.

Deepskystacker

Deep Sky Stacker. IMPORTANT: This is a living document written for a small group of astronomers learning together at the same pace and.

Deep Sky Stacker

It is not meant as a definitive guide, I am sure there are others out there that achieve that. This will be expanded upon the more "we" become comfortable with and learn more of what this program can do. DeepSkyStacker (DSS) - a beginners guide This is a basic tutorial to enable you to create a .tif file containing as much image information as possible from a stacked set of raw images. This will then be processed using follow on software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom even Photo Plus 10 which by the way comes free with January's Sky at Night magazine. DeepSkyStacker - Free. Image Stacker. Astrophotography. Favorite Software Tools. Backyard EOS Image capture only: $ 24.00 This is a pretty slick image capture software that is specically designed for Canon EOS cameras.

Favorite Software Tools

It has some nifty features such as: Frame & Focus: Measures and displays star size permitting fine focusing. Star Trails app. What does it do?

Star Trails app

You can load the Images and optionally some dark.frames (will be averaged and subtracted automatically if exist). If there are some images you don’t want you can uncheck them. Zooming into the images is done with the mouse-wheelOptionally you can average some of the images to get a better signal to noise ratio for the sky-background or the foreground. This averaged image is brightend internally and at the end of the processing blended in "lighten"-mode into the resulting image. Camera control software. How to Shoot the Night Sky (Introduction to Astrophotography) The following post on photographing the night sky is by jgomez65 – one of dPS’s forum members.

How to Shoot the Night Sky (Introduction to Astrophotography)

Several people asked me to post a simple tutorial on how I took some night sky pictures. I am not an astrophotographer in any way, shape or form, nor do I have any expensive equipment. I simply read several tutorials, picked a dark spot on the beach and tried to do my best. Astrophotography - How It's Done.

Iris software. An astronomical images processing softwareVersion 5.59 September 19, 2014 update: New DLL for read most resents DSLR raw files (Canon 6D, Sony alpha 7s, ...). Download the file libdcraw.zip and remplace in your IRIS installation directory the actual libdcraw.dll by the new. It is all! Version 5.59 en français disponible : CLIQUEZ ICI NEW FEATURES OF VERSION 5.59 June 24, 2010.