ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
AMATEUR
Welcome to issue 03 of
the Amateur Astro-photography E-Magazine.
I hope you enjoyed the
first two issues. Issue 02
was published on the 22nd
of January, while writing
issue 02 has received over 117,000 views world
wide. The ezine seems to be doing really well
something I am very proud of, but none of this
would be possible if it were not for the members
of the facebook group, our Flickr group and
bloggers the world over that have allowed their
work to be published in the ezine.
I really do apreciate everything you have all done
and all of your hard work. Thanks so much.
Myself I am very much a novice in this field, but
now find astro-phototgraphy, much more of an
obsession than a hobby or past time.
Over the years I have produced several publications, some of which I sold and are still going
today. I thought as there was not a single amateur
astro-photography magazine in the UK dedicated
to astro-photography alone that I could find, that
maybe I should change this.
My original plan was to eventually publish the
ezine as a bi-monthly publication, but it seems
that demand is calling for a monthly publication.
Something I am very happy with indeed.
I added a SUBSCRIBE button to the website just
after publishing the 2nd issue, the ezine already
has over 24,000 subscribers and growing.
4
Readers Images
8
Pinwheel Galaxy
18 Guide to Drift Alignment
20 Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project
24 Readers Solar Images
26 ISS Transit by Hubert Drozdz
29 Book Review
32 Hills Observatory by Malcolm Dent
44 Photofisher by Kirk
50 Review of the Daystar SolaREDI.7a
80mm by Stephen W. Ramsden
54 Pier Project by Steve Bassett
59 A view from my scope - Observation
Report
PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE TOO
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Cover Image by Oliver Czernetz
Instrument Package
CCD: SBIG STL-11000M
QE: 50% Peak
Full Well: ~50,000e- Anti Blooming Gate (ABG)
Dark Current: 0.5 e-/pixel/sec. @ 0º C
Pixel Size: 9um Square
Resolution: 3.5 arc-secs/pixel
Sensor: Frontlit
Cooling: Set to -15ºC default
Array: 4008 by 2672 (10.7 Mega pixels)
FOV:
155.8 x 233.7 arc-mins
Filters: LRGB, Ha, SII & OIII and V
Position Angle: 090º
Telescope Optics
OTA: Takahashi FSQ Fluorite
Optical Design: Petzval Apochromat Astrograph
Aperture: 106mm (0.1 metre)
Focal Length: 530mm
(.53 metre)
F/Ratio: f5.0
Guiding: External
Mount: Paramount GT-1100S