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Welcome page Who we are and how to find us Meetings for this year Imminent and planned Star maps and other guides Members' astrophotography Other interesting sites Contact the Society

Members Gallery

Welcome to our Gallery of members' astrophotography. Many of our members take astrophotos using webcams, digicams, CCD cameras, video cameras, and film.

Click the links below to see the images in each category.

Monitor calibration - set your brightness/contrast controls so that you can see every shaded box below.

Lunar         Planetary        Deep sky       Constellations and alignments      Eclipses, Transits & Occultations     Other

BADAS Gallery - Lunar Section

Copernicus and vicinity - Montes Carpatus, Mare Insularum, Fauth, Reinhold
Imaged by Pete Franklin

10" Orion Optics SPX250 Newtonian Opticstar Micrometrics 1.3Megapixel camera, f/12.6 - best 42 frames of 453, 8 MAP, RGB shifted

05 October 2007
   
Clavius

 

 

 

Clavius
Photographed by Bob Rutter.

10" Newtonian, 2.5 seconds at f/62 on High Speed Ektachrome @ 320ASA
   

 

 

 

 

 

Gibbous moon
Captured by Pete Franklin.

 4" Maksutov-Cassegrain, mosaic of 21 movies processed in Registax and joined in Photoshop.

23 Dec 04

   

 

Tycho and Clavius
Captured by Pete Franklin.

Bob Rutter's 10" Newtonian, Toucam Pro @ prime focus. Mosaic of two movies processed using Registax and joined in Photoshop.
12 Dec 05

 

 

 

 

 

Copernicus
Photographed by Bob Rutter

10" Newtonian, 6 seconds at f/62 on Adox KB14 @ 80ASA

The Montes Carpatus range is to the North (Left) of Copernicus, and Fauth aka the "Keyhole Crater" to the South.

 

 

 

 

 

Full Moon
Captured by Tony Bradley.

Philips Toucam through 200mm telephoto lens with Moon filter. 200 frames stacked in Registax.
16 Dec 05

   

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
** Members! Submit your astrophotography to the gallery through the yahoo group **