Jaw-dropping amateur shots of Jupiter

Check out the movie down the page. If an amateur had produced pictures
like this 30 years ago, the community would have had a collective heart
attack.

http://www.damianpeach.com/barbados10.htm

* Rich wrote :
Check out the movie down the page. If an amateur had produced pictures
like this 30 years ago, the community would have had a collective heart
attack.

http://www.damianpeach.com/barbados10.htm

Yeah, amazing stuff. Damian is one of, if not /the/, top
planetary imagers in the world.

The technology for us amatuer astro-imagers has come such a long
way. Good times.

One of the members of the IceInSpace astronomy forum recently posted
this where he has posted his images side by side with Hubble
images. Naturally the Hubble images are crisper, but it's an
interesting comparison nonetheless. Some are pretty close in
quality. Not bad considering it's amatuer gear taken at ground
level, having to deal with all of the atmospheric distortions
etc:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...le_comparisons

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Troy Piggins

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:47:56 -0600, Rich wrote:

Check out the movie down the page. If an amateur had produced pictures
like this 30 years ago, the community would have had a collective heart
attack.

http://www.damianpeach.com/barbados10.htm

Amazing shots.

Rich wrote:
Check out the movie down the page. If an amateur had produced pictures
like this 30 years ago, the community would have had a collective heart
attack.

30 years ago, you could have used my laptop to render Tron.

BugBear

* Val Hallah wrote :
On Dec 21, 3:28Â*am, Troy Piggins wrote:
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http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...le_comparisons

not bad...wonder how much it cost him...

Aah, that's the thing, isn't it. Reckon his scope is around $8k,
mount say $10k, camera and filters probably pushing another $7-$10k,
guiding gear, dew control, other misc bits and pieces say another
$5k, and the processing software probably another $1k or 2. I
think that's probably underestimating it a bit too.

Not a cheap hobby, but depends on how far you want to push the
envelope. Lot of my gear is second-hand and mid to low end.
He's using top of the line stuff and he's been doing is since he
was in high school in the 80's and using B&W film.

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Troy Piggins

his pictures are ok... i like it!