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Astrophotography on Chambers Lawn II
Physics 105: Astronomy
Amy Ablondi, Jake Bates, Braden Beaudreau, Lindsay Blum, Andrew Boehm, William Bolton, Taylor Bradford, Cristina Casal, Daniel Cook, Kara Copeland, Chelsea Creta,
John Edgerton, Marcus Ehrlich, Kerem Eroglu, Jessica Ewing, Jacob Fanning, Jack Hain, Taylor Hamrick, Devon Harris, Emma Kenney, Andrea Kunz, Ben Lane, Jessie Li,
Youssef Mejri, Marc Miller, Matt Morrish, Patrick Muller, Lucas Mykulak, Ben Pfeffer, Meg Sanborn, Colin Schreiner, Yasmin Shahida, Dennis Shannon, Jacob Simmonds, Ben
Sobel, Kate Stewart, Jake Thompson, Ian Thomson, Wilson Turner, Blanca Vidal Orga, Ryan Wood
Department of Physics
Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 28035
Mars
Sun
Figure 1: Image of Venus. Image taken with an 8-inch telescope with a video
camera.
Introduction
Solar, lunar, and planetary astrophotography is best accomplished with
specialized astro video cameras. A movie is taken for 1-2 minutes consisting
of between 500-1,500 frames. These frames are then aligned, stacked, and
sharpened with software programs such as RegiStax.
Figure 3: Mars in March and late April 2012.
Saturn
Figure 6: Image of the Sun on May 1, 2012. Image taken with a Lunt 60mm
solar telescope.
Solar Flares and Prominences
Equipment
Mounts
Celestron GT CGEM Equatorial and CGEM Equatorial Mounts
Telescopes
Lunt 60mm Hydrogen alpha Solar Telescope
Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain Catadioptric Reflector 8-inch
Cameras
Imaging Source DFK 21AU04S color CCD camera 640 x 480 pixel array.
Imaging Source DMK 41AU02 mono CCD camera 1280 x 960 pixel array.
Software
RegiStax: image acquisition and processing program
Figure 4: Saturn in late April 2012.
Figure 7: Image of solar flares and prominences on May 1, 2012. Image
taken with a Lunt 60mm solar telescope.
Moon
Figure 2: Image of Imaging Source camera.
Figure 8: Moon. Lunar images taken May 2, 2012.
Figure 5: Saturn in late April 2012