Steve Massey's Astronomy Page HOMEDeepSky Pictures

 

Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught

Captured with a GSTAR-EX camera and home made (hack) telephoto lens 16th Jan 2007. 50 frames were captured from S-VHS recording with manually held RGB filters to create this very rough image.

A beautiful comet.

 

 

 


Comet C/2006 P1

Comet McNaught
The image above was taken with an old Sony Camcorder on a tripod from Sydney.

Comet NEAT 2001 Q4

Captured with a Mintron ExView video camera and 250mm f/5 telescope on the  2nd of May 2004. 200 frames were captured from S-VHS recording and stacked to create this image.

Comet NEAT 2001 Q4
 

Comet NEAT 2001 Q4

This tri-colour image of the comet is comprised of an unfiltered (long exposure 128X integration mode) and shorter exposure 64X mode images taken with Red and Blue filters. The Green component was created by combining the monochrome Red and Blue filtered images.

Comet NEAT 2001 Q4

Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)

Captured with video in the eastern morning sky on the 6th of May 2004.

C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)

Hale-Bopp 1996

At Right:
Film: Kodak Gold 1000 Exp: 4 min
35mm Cannon AE-1 SLR camera
10 inch f/4.5 Newtonian telescope

Below and lower right:
Film: Kodak Gold 1000 Exp: 3 min
35mm Cannon AE-1 SLR camera on tripod

Comet Hale-Bopp

 

Hyakutake 1996

18th March
Film: Kodak Gold 1000 Exp: 5 min
35mm Cannon AE-1 SLR camera
10 inch f/4.5 Newtonian telescope

hk-comet4.jpg (23243 bytes)

Hyakutake 1996

18th May
Film:
Exp: 3 min FUJI 1600 ASA
35mm Cannon AE-1 SLR camera
10 inch f/4.5 Newtonian telescope

hk-comet5.jpg (49538 bytes)

Copyright © 1996-2008  Steve Massey - Sponsor - My Astro Shop