Alan Murta
alan.murta@btinternet.com
Equipment
Most of the planetary and lunar pictures were taken using an Intes MK-66 Deluxe (f/12 152mm Maksutov-Cassegrain reflector) and a standard Philips Toucam Pro webcam. The deep sky images were taken using a Meade LX-10 (f/10 200mm Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector) and a Meade DSI Pro monochrome CCD camera. A Nikon Coolpix 990 digital stills camera was used for the wide-field shots.
Most images may be clicked on to enlarge them.
Wide Field
Five Planet Alignment. (24.04.02).
Space Shuttle Discovery.
STS-105 mission: 4 sec
exposure (12.08.01).
Solar Eclipse.
Seconds after
totality, Kaiserslautern, Germany (11.08.99).
Solar System
The Sun. SOHO satellite reference
image (14.05.05).
The
Moon. 22 image mosaic:
25%,
50% and
full size
versions (14.04.05).
Lunar Eclipse. Nikon
990 through 32mm LX-10 eyepiece. Movie. (03.03.07).
Comet Holmes. Equatorially mounted Canon
EOS. 30 second exp. ISO 400. (14.11.07).
Transit
of Mercury. Mercury
is at lower right (07.05.03).
Mercury-Venus Conjunction. Sep: 0.09°. Phases: M61%, V91% (27.06.05).
Transit of Venus. Click
the image for further details (08.06.04).
Venus.
Processed from 300 webcam video
frames (02.04.04).
Mars.
Click the image for further
details (31.08.03).
Mars.
Showing Olympus Mons volcano, 2330 GMT (06.11.05).
Mars.
Mare Erythraeum region, 2330 GMT.
Raw movie. (18.11.05).
Jupiter.
Also shows Io and Ganymede (28.03.05).
Jupiter.
Ganymede transit animation (04.04.05).
Saturn.
Processed from 1800 webcam video
frames (04.04.05).
Saturn.
Processed from 3000 webcam video
frames (28.02.06).
Uranus.
20 x 0.5 sec RGB exposures using DSI Pro (22.09.05).
Deep Sky
M13 Hercules
Cluster.
50 x 2 sec RGB exposures
(25.06.05).
M42 Orion Nebula.
20 x 4 sec RGB exposures
(28.02.06).
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy.
With satellite. 25 x 8 sec LRGB
exposures (25.06.05).
M57 Ring Nebula.
25 x 8 sec LRGB exposures
(22.06.05).
Brightness check: all bands should be visible.