Just after twilight and low above the Southern horizon, I took some pictures of the Lagoon Nebula. This time with the correct working distance of the flattener to the camerasensor.
The nebula is slightly visible and even the Lagoon itself. South of the nebula, globular star cluster NGC6544 is seen.
Pictures are stacked with deepskystacker and editing using CS4.
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Saturday, August 11, 2018
9h53 launch time of the Delta Heavy IV with Parker Solar Probe
Friday, August 10, 2018
One day to go before Parker Solar Probe lift off
On August 11th 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is planned to start it's journey to the Sun's Corona. It will be the closest approach to the sun in history. And I will be on board :)
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Perseids Meteor Shower 2018 - My first pictures using all-sky camera
The maximum (as many as 60-100 metors/hour) occurs on Monday morning August 13th. look out for a dark place to count for the meteors.
This evening I was able to make some pictures of a couple of meteors using my all-sky camera.
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Again Wrong Working Distance from Sensor - Messier M8 Lagoon Nebula
Seeing was very good on August 2nd with low Moon impact till UT24h. So ideal to make pictures of deepsky object. Based on my earlier learnings I changed the position of the flattener in order to increase the working distance between camera sensor and flattener. Unfortunately I did not measure the final distance. The result showed still aberration at the edged. Not so big as with the flattener just in front of the sensor; but still, it clearly can be seen.
So, I did some detailed measuring and found out the picture was taken with the flattener at a distance of 151mm. The pictures taken earlier had a working distance of 117.8mm; wich is below 5% of the ideal working distance according the technical data.
Focal plane of my camera is shown below :
The recommended distances from the M48x0.75 thread to the corrector via technical data is shown below. In principle this rule applies: the shorter the refractor´s focal length, the longer the working distance to the sensor has to be.
♦ focal length < 450 mm: 128 mm
♦ focal length 450-490 mm: 123 mm for my TLAPO 80/480 f/6
♦ focal length 500-550 mm: 118 mm
♦ focal length 560-590 mm: 116 mm
♦ focal length 600-690 mm: 113 mm
♦ focal length 700-800 mm: 111 mm
♦ focal length as from 800 mm: 108 mm
An underrun or an overrun of the distance of up to 5% has no visible effect on the sharpness in the field of sensors with formats up to APS-C. With larger sensors, the tolerance is reduced to 1-2%.
So, I did some detailed measuring and found out the picture was taken with the flattener at a distance of 151mm. The pictures taken earlier had a working distance of 117.8mm; wich is below 5% of the ideal working distance according the technical data.
Focal plane of my camera is shown below :
The recommended distances from the M48x0.75 thread to the corrector via technical data is shown below. In principle this rule applies: the shorter the refractor´s focal length, the longer the working distance to the sensor has to be.
♦ focal length < 450 mm: 128 mm
♦ focal length 450-490 mm: 123 mm for my TLAPO 80/480 f/6
♦ focal length 500-550 mm: 118 mm
♦ focal length 560-590 mm: 116 mm
♦ focal length 600-690 mm: 113 mm
♦ focal length 700-800 mm: 111 mm
♦ focal length as from 800 mm: 108 mm
An underrun or an overrun of the distance of up to 5% has no visible effect on the sharpness in the field of sensors with formats up to APS-C. With larger sensors, the tolerance is reduced to 1-2%.
Mars TAL200K ASI224MC
Seeing was good and details on the surface were clearly seen. The surface showed clearly light and dark areas. I made a series of picutres which nicely showed clearly the rotation of the planet.
Observations are made with TAL200K and ASI224MC with Barlowx2. All pictures made with capture software SharpCap and capture are was reduced to 480x400. Stacking using DeepskyStacker. Final editing with CS4.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
July Weather Summary
July 2018 was a very warm and very dry month. Two days of rain with only 3 l/m2 and an average temperature above 20°C.
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