Thursday, 7 January 2010

New 1/2" colour Deep-Sky Mintron for 2010

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The new 1/2" chip colour Deep-Sky Mintron, the 72S85HP-EX-SW OMEGA has wider fileds of view, better colour fidelity and lower amp glow...
Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Advances in colour Mintron deep-sky imaging

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The Shape of things to come. I am working on a new colour Mintron camera with Mintron Enterprise Co., Ltd. and have some preliminary results...
Thursday, 19 November 2009

Article in Astronomy Now on extracting images from DVD recordings without using a capture card and with no loss of quality

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Advances in Deep Sky Video Astronomy Ian Davies and I have published an article in the December 2009 issue of Astronomy Now magazine in whic...
Thursday, 15 October 2009

A MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Helix Mintron and a 10" Newtonian

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On a night of very good transparency and no Moon, the MTV-73S85HP-EX-SW-R colour deep-sky Helix Mintron was placed at the prime focus of a...
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...