hello, as usual I have travelled in western Europe to catch Endeavour during STS-134, fighting with bad weather and average seeing. Here is the compilation of the results: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/STS-134.html You'll find a 3D video of a pass of Endeavour docked to the ISS (stereo pair and anaglyph), another video with two passes of Endeavour before return to Earth (unfortunately the seeing was bad) and several solar transits. The videos have been taken with a 10" ACF Meade telescope on a Takahashi EM-400 German mount heavily (hardware and software) modified for real-time fast tracking with a guide camera on a finder. The main camera is a Lumenera Skynyx L2-2 recording monochrome 12-bit Fits files at 10 fps (one frame is 4 Mb and there are more than 1000 frames for a pass). As usual in planetary imaging, each frame of the final video is a combination of 15 to 30 consecutive registered raw frames (in order to smooth turbulence and to improve signal-to-noise ratio), followed by slight sharpening. During this vacancy period I have also taken other satellites, it will take some time for processing and preparation of pages but soon you'll see videos of passes of USA-186 (Keyhole), X-37B (OTV-2) and Nanosail. Stay tuned... :-) regards Thierry Legault www.astrophoto.fr _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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