About

Martin Jansz lives in Melbourne Australia and takes these astrophotographs from his inner suburban backgarden.

All images copyright Martin Jansz. All rights reserved. 

Telescope Imaging System

Telescope: Celestron CGE11 with Meade Series 4000 f/6.3 Focal Reducer/Field Flattener.

Focuser: Moonlite Focuser with stepper drive and controller

Guiding: Orion short tube refractor Guidescope 80mm f5 with Atik camera 16C using Autoguide port on mount.

Imaging Camera: Atik 314L which gives 0.85 arcsec/pixel and a field of 13.1 x 17.5 arcmin

Filter wheel: Atik EFW2 motorised filter wheel

Filters: Astronomik L-RGB set (1.25") Type 2 and 6nm Halpha filters

Software

Control: Maxim DL - Complete control of imaging session.

Polar Align: PemPro - Brilliant for accurate drift method.

Collimation: CCDInspector - useful for image quality as well.

Focus Software: FocusMax - results show using CCDInspector.

Image Processing: PixInsight

 

 

 

 

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