Rich, The mount is a Vixen GP-DX mount and SkySensor 2000PC. The scope is the Takahashi Sky 90, which weighs about 6 pounds. Clear skies Don -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Richard Tenney Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:07 AM To: Visit http://www.utahastronomy.com for the photo gallery. Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Saturn Don, Great images; I especially like your deep-sky work done at Kanab. Is that 90mm + mount a Takahashi? -Rich --- "Don J. Colton" <djcolton@piol.com> wrote:
I had some relatively good seeing this morning and Saturn was quite spectacular; see the image I took with the Phillips TouCam Pro at http://www.utahastronomy.com/. This was taken with a 9.25-inch Celeston SCT and Vixen GP-DX mount. This is a very portable setup.
Many thanks to David for information on TouCam settings. My previous images of Mars showed pretty good detail but poor color rendidtion. This was because I used exposures of 1/100 and 1/500 sec. with high gain and 100 exposures per second. Unfornunately the computer compresses such images and they suffer in quality.
Another thing I have learned is that good processing cannot substitute for good seeing.
Clear Skies Don Colton 801-566-3000 (w) 801-571-9757 (h)
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