I use two types of
image sensors for image capture -
CCD and CMOS. I capture
planetary images with
a ToUcam Pro 740k CCD webcam, and
I take longer exposures of deep sky objects using Canon's EOS 300D
CMOS digital SLR camera.
Webcams are very good for capturing
planetary images where many very short exposures can be taken as an AVI
(movie) file. Individual frames can then be extracted, aligned, and stacked. There is a variety of
freeware and shareware applications for achieving these functions.
Film, long exposure modified webcams, digital cameras with a bulb
function or long exposure options,
and traditional (and prohibitively expensive) astronomical CCD cameras are used to
capture long exposures of deep sky objects to varying degrees of
success.
In the following pages, I
display some of
the images I have taken with the ToUcam Pro webcam and the
Canon 300D digital SLR. Comments and questions are always welcome (see the Home page
for contact details).
For best viewing of these
images, you may need to calibrate your monitor by ensuring that each of
the 16 shades of grey below are visible.
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