Planet Gallery

Planet Gallery
*Updated 10/31/2005*
		Saturn Pentax K-1000 camera, Kodak 400 color film, .125 sec exposure
		Saturn
		Jupiter and three of its moons. The closest on is Io, next is Equopa, and then Callisto. LX-200, ST-7XE, .001 sec exposure, 15 images aligned, combined in CCDSoft, and Photoshop 6.0. (01/31/2003) Rafter M Ranch, Hockley, Texas
		Jupiter
		Jupiter and three of its moons LX-200, SBIG -ST-237A, R=.125 sec, G=.125 sec, B=.125 sec
		Jupiter with it three moons. Taken with my LX-200, SBIG ST-237A camera. The seeing was not very good this evening.
		Jupiter with one of it's moon. Taken with my LX-200 8" telescope, SBIG ST-7XE camera, color filter wheel, taken 03/20/2003 at the Rafter M Ranch. L=0.01, R=0.01,G=0.01, B=0.01. Processed in Maxln DL, CCDSoft, and Photoshop.
		Saturn taken with my LX-200 8" telescope, SBIG ST-7XE camera, color filter wheel, taken 03/20/2003 at the Rafter M Ranch. L= 0.01, R=0.01, G=0.01, B=0.01. Processed in Maxln DL, CCDSoft, & Photoshop
		Second Jupiter with one of it's moon. Taken with my LX-200 8" telescope, SBIG ST-7XE camera, color filter wheel, taken 03/20/2003 at the Rafter M Ranch. L=0.01, R=0.01,G=0.01, B=0.01. Processed in Maxln DL, CCDSoft, and Photoshop.
		Jupiter with three of it's moons. Io is going behind Jupiter to the right of the planet. Taken with LX-200 8" telescope, SBIG ST-7XE camera, color filter wheel, taken on 03/19/2003 at the Rafter M Ranch. L=0.01, R=0.01, G=0.01, B-0.01. Also processed in Maxln Dl, CCDSoft and Photoshop.
		Mars is coming! I took this image on 08/07/2003 at 6:00 AM with a digital camera that was hand held. I was using my Celestron NexStar 5i.
	This is the same as above. This was my first attempt in taking a digital image of a planet with my Sony digital camera. It too was hand held and I was using afocal technique. The image was processed in Maxln DL and Photoshop.
	Mars was taken with My LX-200 8 inch telescope, SBIG ST-237A at the Mars Party in Columbus, Texas. This was on 08/17/2003 at approximately 0100 hours. The image was processed in Photoshop
	Mars was taken also with my LX-200 8 inch telescope, SBIG 237A camera at the Mars Party in Columbus, Texas on 08/17/2003. This is 10 images combined in Maxlm DL, and some processing in Photoshop.
	This is the same as above.
	*NEW* This was my first attempt with my Toucam 840 of Saturn. I still have along way to go, but I am having fun doing it. Taken Rafter M Ranch 03/19/2004 with Celestron NexStar 5, Televue 2.5 Powermate, stacked in Registax and finished in Photoshop.
	*NEW* This was my second attempt with my Toucam 840 of Jupiter & three of it's moons. As you can see I am starting to get the hang of it. Taken at the Girl Scout Camp Conroe 04/01/2004 with a Celestron NexStar 5, stacked in Registax and finished in Photoshop. (Now to work on some color......
	NEW Well this was my first attempt with my Toucam 840 of Jupiter. I was using my NexStar 5i and 2.5 Powermate. The 90 second image was processed with Registax and tweaked in Maxln DL and Photoshop. Taken Rafter M Ranch 04/09/2004
	NEW This was a 62 second exposure with my Toucam 840 with my NexStar 5i with the 2.5 Powermate. Again it was processed and stacked in Registax and tweaked in Maxln DL and Photoshop. I am starting to get the color down. Taken Rafter M Ranch 04/09/2004
	NEW This was a 100 second exposure with my Toucam 840 and has you can see the seeing had diminished. Again all the processing was the same as above. Taken Rafter M Ranch 04/10/2004.
	This was a 120 second exposure with my Toucam 840 and you can see the Great Red Spot on the left side of the planet. All the equipment and processing is the same as above. Taken Rafter M Ranch 04/10/2004.
	This was my first attempt of a 90 second exposure of Venus with my ToUcam 840 and my LX-200 8" telescope. The image was stacked in Registax and again tweaked in Maxlm DL with some processing in Photoshop. Taken Rafter M Ranch 04/15/2004. (tax day)
	This is my newest Jupiter Image that I took with my ToUcam 840 and my LX-200 8" telescope. I had a 2.5 Powermate in front of the ToUcam. This is an 180 second video stacked in Registax and tweaked in Maxlm DL and Photoshop. It was very windy tonight at the Rafter M Ranch 04/15/2004.
	I got a new TOA-130 and an NJP mount and took it outside last night at the Rafter M Ranch on04/02/2005. After getting the finder scope aligned with the telescope, I decided to try my luck with the ToUcam 840. This is Jupiter with only some very, very slight processing in RegStax. I saw more details on Jupiter tonight than I have ever seen.
	NEWEST: I took these images with my ToUcam 840 on the night of 10/29/2005 at the Rafter M Ranch. The seeing was very god this night, and the images were processed in RegStax. The different color of the plant Mars is due to the different set-ups I used in the ToUcam capture program.



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