Sunday, 27 September 2009

The MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Mintron and an f/4.8 10" Newtonian

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An MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Helix Mintron with a 0.5 focal reducer and an IR cut filter was placed at the Prime focus of a 10...
Tuesday, 22 September 2009

An MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Mintron with a large, fast Newtonian

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An MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Mintron was placed at the prime focus of a 10" f/4.8 Newtonian and the video stream was recorde...
Sunday, 20 September 2009

An MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Mintron with a small, fast Newtonian

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The MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Mintron was used at the prime focus of a Skywatcher 130P Synscan AZ GOTO telescope and DVD recording...
Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Andromeda and Omega with a small fast Newtonian

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Imaging with the MTV-22S85HC-EX monochrome 1/2" chip, deep-sky Super Wide field, low amp-glow Mintron There was a wind blowing at my ex...
Thursday, 10 September 2009

MTV-22S85HC-EX monochrome 1/2" chip, deep-sky Super Wide field, low amp-glow Mintron with a 10" f/4.8 Newtonian

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The MTV-22S85HC-EX monochrome 1/2" chip, deep-sky Super Wide field, low amp-glow Mintron was fitted with a neodymium filter and placed...
Sunday, 30 August 2009

The new Mintron 22S85HC-EX 1/2" chip, frame-accumulating Mintron video camera. and more

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The Mintron 22S85HC-EX 1/2" chip, frame-accumulating monochrome video camera was featured here two posts ago. It has a 1/2" CCD c...
Tuesday, 28 July 2009

My PDF eBook on Solar Imaging

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My latest news is that I have a PDF ebook available on 'Observing and Imaging the Sun with Modest Equipment' You can find more info...
Saturday, 18 July 2009

A Mintron with a 1/2 inch chip and a small AZ Newtonian

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Skywatcher 130P Synscan AZ GOTO Newtonian with a Mintron 22S85HC-EX 1/2" chip, frame-integrating video camera. The equipment was set up...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Summer with the Colour Deep-Sky Mintron

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Colour Deep-Sky Mintron imaging The MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Mintron was used at the Prime focus of an f/4.8 10 inch Newtonian to...
Thursday, 11 June 2009

Using a Mintron with a scope on an Altazimuth mount

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De-rotating a set of Mintron images A problem with using altazimuth mounts for imaging is that long exposures result in image rotation. Thi...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Scaling Mintron darkframes

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Capturing an AVI of M101 with GStar GStar is a freeware AVI capture program written by Steve Massey. The virtue of this program when captur...
Sunday, 31 May 2009

Mintron imaging with a 10" F/4.8 Newtonian

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A Mintron MTV-23S85HC-EX-R monochrome deep-sky frame-integrating camera was used with an Opticstar 0.5 focal reducer and a light-pollution f...
Monday, 18 May 2009

Capturing images from a Mintron under Windows Vista

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The AVI capture software HandyAvi is ideal for capturing integrated frames from a Mintron under Windows Vista. This is a low cost, high qua...
Tuesday, 21 April 2009

A Mintron, a C6 and focal reduction

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A MTV-23S85HC-EX-R monochrome deep-sky Mintron was used with a C6 Schmidt Cassegrain fitted with a 6.3 Celestron focal reducer and field fla...