Instruments Celestron C8 [200mm; 2000mm; f/10] William Optics Megrez II 80ED [80mm; 560mm; f/7] William Optics ZenithStar 66 [66mm; 388mm; f/5.9] William Optics RedCat 51 [51mm; 250mm; f/4.9] Orion Mini Guide Scope [50mm; 162mm; f/3.2] Explore Scientific Dobson [406mm; 1826mm; f/4.5] Mounts Losmandy GM8 Skywatcher StarAdventurer Cameras ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro ZWO ASI 120MM QHY…
For those of you that are interested in open source astronomy and do not want to manually install their system like I presented in this post, I recently found a very nice alternative name Astroberry. It comes with all the necessary software such as INDI, KStars, Astrometry.Net, ASTAP, CCDCiel, SkyChart, OpenPHD, oaCapture and many others……
Yesterday night, we had the biggest full moon for 2020 (“Super Moon”). I took the opportunity to shot it. Interestingly, the moon was not completely full (illuminated at 99.4%). Therefore you can see some relief in craters on the southern part of the Moon. == MATERIEL == Instrument : WO ZenithStar 66 Diamètre: 66mm Focale:…
Here is my last image of the Moon taken on April 5, 2020. Instrument: William Optics ZenithStar 66mm, focal 388mm, f/5.9 Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro Processing: Siril (selection and stack of the 100 best images out of 1000)
To manage my astronomy devices I’m using the INDI Library that is an open source, cross platform protocol designed to support control, automation, data acquisition, and exchange among hardware devices and software frontends. INDI stands for the Instrument-Neutral-Distributed-Interface. It supports a wide range of devices and can be used with many different clients. INDIlib is not…