Tuesday 31 March 2015

89% waxing, gibbous Moon

A tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera at 60x optical zoom was used to image the 89% waxing, gibbous Moon. The camera was set to  ISO-100 and 1/320s exposure at f/5.9. 60 images, were precisely cropped and registered in Nicola Mackin's AstroCrop software and then stacked and wavelet processed in Registax 5.



The Sun with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera fitted with a Baader solar filter

A static tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera at 60x optical zoom, fitted with a Baader solar filter, was used to image the Sun. The camera was set to burst mode, ISO-100 and 1/800s exposure at f/5.9. Images were captured in bursts of three. 60 images, precisely cropped and registered in Nicola Mackin's AstroCrop software were stacked and wavelet processed in Registax 5.



Sunday 29 March 2015

75% waxing, gibbous Moon with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 Bridge Camera

A tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera at 60x optical zoom was used to image the 75% waxing, gibbous Moon. The camera was set to  ISO-100 and 1/160s exposure at f/5.9. 60 images, were precisely cropped and registered in Nicola Mackin's AstroCrop software and then stacked and wavelet processed in Registax 5.




In future blog postings I shall explain why bridge cameras with large optical zooms are suitable for lunar and solar imaging, and the procedures I use to obtain results very quickly with no elaborate setting up.