OT: Planets 2005-03-05 - By Ed Baker
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Hey Bill,
Thanks. It's my first try with the imager. It has about the magnification
of a 9mm eyepiece from my understanding. These images were taken with my
Meade 5 inch DS-2130 reflector.
I just recently also purchased a 2x Barlow, but am waiting for an adapter
since it has a 1.25" barrel, and my scope has a .965". I have a 3x Barlow
that fits, but the optics are poor.
The Lunar Planetary Imager is made by Meade, and is a CCD albeit a simple
one. From what I've read, it's basically a glorified webcam of sorts, but
you can control exposure times from .001 to 16 seconds. The software that
it comes with also helps by taking multiple exposures and then compositing
them into a single image with some automatic processing.
Meade has two CCDs that are in the affordable range (for me :) ):
The Lunar Planetary Imager:
http://meade.com/autostar/lpi.html
And the Deep Sky Imager (Which has much longer exposure times at twice the
cost):
http://meade.com/dsi/index.html
Thanks,
Ed
At 08:21 PM 3/5/2005, you wrote:
>Ed, great pics, what is a Lunar Planetary Imager? Some kind of CCD? Looks
>like the view I get through my 8 inch reflector, beautiful.
>Bill
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