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NGC 1566 by Darrin Nitschke
This impressive monochrome image is comprised of several framed areas of sky patiently processed and stitched together

Markarian's-Chain by Darrin Nitschke
This impressive LRGB image is comprised of several framed areas of sky patiently processed and stitched together
to make this panorama. He used a 200mm f/4 Newtonian  Click here for full size version. 

Above: For his outstanding GSTAR-EX panorama image of Markarian's Chain (above)
Darrin Nitschke receives his "Special Mention" award from Dr.David Malin
at the Astrophotography Awards night in July 2009.

NGC3521 by Darrin Nitschke
Another stitched fields Nitschke LRGB masterpiece using a 8-inch f/4 Newtonian. Again, this image clearly demonstrates
just how much detail can be recorded using the GSTAR-EX camera. Of course, the magic in revealing it all comes with
patience and educated post image processing experience. 

NGC 253 by Darrin Nitschke

Above Left: NGC 1097 (LRGB filtered image) and at Right NGC 7331 by Darrin Nitschke (Sydney NSW)

M17 and the heart of M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) by Mark Garrett QLD with a Meade LXD75-SN8

DSO images by Steve Quirk - The following pictures have been taken with a 12-inch Newtonian from country dark skies and are comprised of stacked images taken with LRGB exposures. You can see more of Steve Q's work at his website

The large crater Janssen (about 191 kilometres across) taken by Jason Clarke NSW with the GSTAR-EX and Meade 10-inch LX200. The image is comprised of a stack of 2 short 1/500 second exposures. A long rille can be seen quite clearly cutting its way through the crater floor and central mountain massif. It is about 6kms wide.

NGC3372

This is a first attempt image of the Carina Nebula using the G-STAR-EX with a SkyWatcher SW600 (8-inch Newtonian) taken by Dave Larkin in Queensland.

The image was taken from a light polluted suburb of Brisbane with a full Moon in the sky using only 64X integration (sense up) setting.

The famous Keyhole is clearly seen here.

Jupiter

by Darren Jackson (U.K)

...couldn't believe how much detail I could see in Jupiter's clouds. I have never seen that much detail before...it's hard to go back to looking through an eyepiece again.

NGC5139

by Darren Jackson

This image is a stack of several individual video frames taken with a 8-inch SkyWatcher Newtonian from Sydney. The levels have been stretched to reveal the extent of stars visible in Omega Centauri.

M22

by Tony Baron

This is a single screen shot image of Messier 22 globular cluster in Sagittarius by Tony Baron giving a good illustration of what can be seen on the video monitor in real-time.

M20

by Tony Baron

A stack of several images were used to creat this image of M20-Trifid Nebula also in Sagittarius.

A Guide Scope and Target Finder

Albert Van Donkelaar of Victoria uses the GSTAR-EX for guiding and target finding because of its extremely good sensitivity. Seen here, he has fitted a 6 to 60mm zoom CCTV lens and uses one of the video outputs connected to a 2.5-inch LCD monitor and the other video output connects to a laptop via a USB TV tuner.

And of course, the camera may be used with a guide scope for tracking stars during long exposure photography  providing the best eyerelief possible.

Jupiter

by Steve Massey

This  image of Jupiter taken with GSTAR-EX and tri-colour filters with IR-blocking from Sydney on the 19th May 2006.

The telescope was a SkyWatcher PROMAK-180
(7-inch Maksutov) with Celestron Ultima 2X barlow.

Comprised of 150 stacked images for each colour channel processed in VirtualDub and Registax.

Below: Eratosthenes left and the Straight Wall (Rupes Recta)  with a 10-inch SkyWatcher Newtonian.
Images by Steve Massey.

Below: Screen grab of GSTAR CAPTURE software setting showing
GSTAR-EX fitted with 2.3mm All Sky lens

Click Here to see short demo movie

Astro Shop would like to thank each GSTAR-EX camera user for sharing their images with us.

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