Category Archives: Progress

April 21, 2012
6:04 pm
by: John

Committing my Camera to the Stars

DSLR cameras like my Canon 550D are designed to produce pictures with the correct colour appearance during the day, despite the fact that the camera’s CCD chip is sensitive to the infra red emissions from warm objects. DSLRs achieve good … Continue reading →

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April 20, 2012
3:28 pm
by: John

Slipping over to the Dark Side

In February 2012, I decided to try just a little bit of the image processing I had been reading about: Nebulosity to take the shots, stack the subs, crop and “Adjust Color Background (Offset)” ; then save as a “16-bit … Continue reading →

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April 18, 2012
1:38 pm
by: John

First Steps

Join the Club In mid-2011, O’Reilly’s Guest House (in the mountains on the Queensland – New South Wales border) put on a Stargazer’s Weekend which I attended. The speaker was Noeleen Lowndes, NASA’s representative for the Saturn Observation Campaign and … Continue reading →

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