First test of Canon 70D with Baader BCF Astrophotography filter modification Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 500 frames @ ISO1600 at auto shutter speed. Processed with Registax 6 with best 20% stacked, no wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5. Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter and homemade Baader Solarfilm objective filter, Canon 70D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 29C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 3.03 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. No Guidescope.
I happened to wake just before dawn, so grabbed the camera and hoped to find a few clouds for a bit of colour in the dawn sky. As there were none of significance, the best I could do was get the sun rising through the trees with f/ratio high enough to cause a star diffraction. Taken at Sheldrake Park, Willetton, W.A.
A test of a my homemade solar filter adaption to test the solar image quality of my humble achromatic guidescope. The filter and the scope work quite acceptably, certainly well enough to try it for the coming partial solar eclipse in 4 days. See also cropped version. Telescope - Orion ShortTube 80 f/5 with Thousand Oaks 72mm DSLR Black Polymer solar filter reducing aperture to 65mm f/6.2, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 127' x 191' , Ambient ~24C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.0.3 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - none.
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