All my Astronomy mods and stuffs. All this blog is protected by the Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Creative Commons License. See creativecommons.org for more details.
This picture from Jupiter, taken in october 2010 is a bit better. Io is there. I forgot to remove my QHY5's bias current. Have a nice night !
Qastrocam-g2 4.8 RC2 is out. You may download it and try it ! Please report any bug. link Changelog : link
The RC2 looks stable, so it becomes the 4.8 final ! Have a clear sky !
...my first Jupiter ! Please don't laugh... My second Jupiter is a bit better ;-) Best regards !
After my first Saturn picture, my first Moon, with a low cost 114/900 and a low cost cmos webcam. The colors are natural, no processing. Have a nice week !
Two years separate these two pictures : My first Saturn : My last one : I wish you a clear sky ;-)
This is a first try for M13. F 1000, F/D 8, binning 2x2, 150x4 seconds frames aligned, gain 40%, dark substraction.
Most of the time, the first deep sky object shooted is M42, but my first M42 is really ugly ;-) So, I post my second deep sky object : M13
First light for the QHY5/Qastrocam-g2 duet. M13 and the Moon. I still have to process the M13 movie, but Tycho is ready ;-)
After these lazy days, I'm back to work. Coming soon : - Add a piggyback to your Meade ETX - The spc900nc led long exposure mod Bonus : Jupiter, with it's two bands (last summer)
I finaly modded my EQ5 motor drive to add an ST4 autoguide port. I'm pretty proud of it ;-) Have a look : Add an ST4 port on the EQ4/EQ5 motor drives Have a clear sky !
Don't you think your QHY5's LED is to bright ? This mod could help you ;-) Removing the QHY5's LED
Qastrocam-g2 really needs more documentation. There is only one available documentation is an incomplete pdf file wrote in French. I will add some documentation here. The FAQ is on the way ! Feel free to add a question by writing a comment ! Qastrocam-g2...
Feel free to ramble on my last Moon mosaic. Hope you enjoy ;-) Best Regards !
One of my first pictures, The Moon/Saturn conjonction, with all it's defaults : bad exposition and "Bayerized", but I like it ;-) Have nice night !
Annoyed by your missing centronic port ? You still use an antique laptop because of this damned parallel port ? Just look at this Add TTL outputs to your USB Laptop Best regards !
I'm still working on the QHY5 support on qastrocam-g2. Things are going well ;-) My first real deep sky with the QHY5 : 14x20s frames, gain at 50%, D=120mm, F=500mm, IR filter This picture needs more pre-processing, but the QHY5 can give nice deep sky...
I'm currently trying to cool my cameras to reduce thermal noise. Please have a look on my two last mods ! Cooling the QHY5 imager/autoguider (step 1) Cooling the philips spc900nc webcam (step 1) Best regards !
I just wrote a simple tool in order to help star focusing under GNU/Linux. This tool just compute the FWHM of the picture behind it. Link : link Screenshot : It needs Qt 4.5 or above. It's just a pure Qt / C++ app, it should also work on windows (but...
This hack can be used on windows too : Add TTL outputs to your USB Laptop (Part 3, Software on Windows) Demo on Vista : Best regards !
The QHY5 noise cam also be reduced by software. Just have a look on this page to see my experiments on Qastrocam-g2 : How to reduce the QHY5's noise (step 2) It works great ;-) Best regards !
If you want to use astrofocuser on ubuntu 10.04 LTS, you have to set the visual effects of appearance settings to "Normal" : Best regards !
If you have troubles with your polar alignment scope, have a look at my tips : Tune your EQ5 polar aligment scope Best regards !
Two small fixes for AstroFocuser : - The FWHM should now be accurate if you just have one star in the window - It use a bit less of CPU time. Best regards !
Hello folks ! Sure, I'm still alive, but I'm really really busy ! My 16 months old daugther and my just born son eat all my available time ;-) Best regards !
