Projects and Interests
I was lucky enough to have the right gear and the right weather to capture the rare Venus Transit of 2012. This is where Venus would travel directly in front of the Sun from our view point, the tiny disc of Venus would eclipse the sun. It …
Currently I’m working with two setups to do solar imaging: a Meade 4.5″ ETX with a Baader filter connected to a Philips SPC900 webcam using SharpCap for capture and then AVIStack2 to stack and post process. The main problem with this setup is you’ll …
All of these were taken with a Meade LX90 10-inch with Philips sp900 modified webcam
The Meade 1209 zero shift micro focuser (very difficult to find by the way, here’s the manual too) that I purchased was the latest version that did NOT have the handbox controller for it. The latest version is only compatible with the LX200 series where …
On comet Lovejoy’s journey towards the sun I managed to get a set of time lapse images as it moved near a reference star.
For the past few years I’ve been lucky to have acquired enough equipment and hard-fought knowledge to incorporate astrophotography into my Astronomy curriculum. I figured out ways to offer students the same learning with or without access to a telescope, AND do real science that …
