Image processing applied: Deconvolution 35 steps van Cittert.

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VESTA Camera Closeups

Straight Wall at 9 Day Old Moon	Straight Wall at 22 Day Old Moon	Straight Wall at 24 Day Old Moon

Crater Copernicus at 10 Day Old Moon	Apenine Region at 22 Day Old Moon	Plato & Vallis Alpes at 22 Day Old Moon

Original Captured Image  No Processing	Luminance Adjustment Processing	Deconvolution 35 Steps van Cittert

Gamma Stretch Processing	Minimal Unsharp Mask (1/2 Pixel Radius)	Comparison of All Steps

Orange Color Filter Cuts Waxing Moons Glare	Afocal Video Camera Setup

Susima Writes: "The moon picture was a still image saved from the video I took with my JVC camcorder attached to my Meade ETX 125 EC. The eyepiece on which the camcorder lens sat was a 40mm one. I used adaptors (the digi T and the clamp) I got from Scopetronics to firmly place the camcorder on the eyepiece and hold it in place. I also used small counter weights hanging from a ring clamp on which a camera could be mounted to ride piggy back on the telescope. I used an orange filter on the eyepiece."

"My camcorder has provision to save on a memory card images from the video tape. I then transfer the saved images to my computer and save them on zip discs. I haven't taken any pictures recently but hope to start again as soon as the weather improves - temperature wise. I have been looking at sunspots with my Meade ETX 70 EC."

More of Susima's studies of the moon with her camera / telescope setup as above.

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Good Results with Modest Cost Equipment

Club member Bill Wright produced this series of images using a Mamiya 35 mm camera with Kodak 100 asa print film connected to the telescope by a T adapter with extension tube. A 2x Barlow was also used. The telescope was an 8" f/7 reflector that Bill bought at an auction for $80.00. Some lucky stiff, eh?