New Freeware: Astrolabium, DSLR Timer and Fokuspokus for your telecope
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Comet Lulin in March 2009 |
The observation of the sky with the naked eye or with a small telescope is an unique
experience. With a camera, however, you can discover new worlds. Whether it be the
sky photographed directly or through a telescope: Because a camera can collect the
light you see a thousand times more. Comet Lulin was hardly visible with blank eyes.
With binoculars you could see a nebula. With my Canon EOS 20d I took 20 images of
30 seconds each and overlayed them. Now coma and tail of the comet can clearly be
seen.
Camera and mount was done by Fokuspokus.
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Telecope control with Fokuspokus |
A further improvement can be achieved by software:
- DSLR Timer is a software interval timer
and helps you to capture series of images with your DSLR camera.
- Fokuspokus is a program to control the
telescope. It works so easy with it's point-and-click navigation and automates many
things that usually must be done manually. It combines your mount, focuser and camera
to an astrocamera.
- AstroLabium is a tool to analyze your
astrophotos.
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