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Welcome to my Astro Website! ***The Ring-System of Saturn is rapidly closing as seen from Earth. These two images of the planet show Saturn with the rings fully open back in 2004 and the rings closing 2008***
Of course once you have the webcam file, you need to process it to obtain a sharp, crisp still image. There are various freeware packages on the Web for both the PC and Mac, amongst those for the PC are Cor Berrevoet's excellant Registax.
So enough of my ramblings, look through my site and feel free to drop me an email at: astro@abovethecloud.org.uk
Recent Updates:
---Updated 11/10/2008---
Here are all things astronomy.
On this site, I publish my Double Star measures and Variable Star magnitude estimates. Astrophotograpy is a branch of Astronomy that I have become involved with from 2003. Using a webcam attached to the drawtube of a telescope can give some remarkably decent images. Let'snot foreget good old slide film that I use in a 35mm SLR camera. Images of Constellations and star fields is how I make use of that media. It has taken a more serious turn since the Observatory, run by Doncaster Astronomical Society, was built in the Summer of 2004. This year (2008) saw a second Dome built at the Observatory. With advice from colleagues in the Society and sharing observing sessions, my attempts to obtain images has shown a marked improvement since my first initial stumblings.
The telescopes I use are the 14" f10 Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain at the Observatory located at Austerfield Field Study Center and my own 8" f6 SCT that gets an occassional airing from my back garden. The Webcam is a Philips Toucam Pro PC740K which provides excellant images through use of variable exposure settings, gain, contrast etc.
Clear Skies!
John
The rings of Saturn ar closing! 17/2/2008
Saturn is occulted by the Moon! 22/5/2007
Venus, high & bright in the western sky! 8/5/2007
If you would like to be notified when I update this website then please email me at: updates@abovethecloud.org.uk
All images are Copyright © 1995-2008 John Cox
