PAO's
Quickcam Astroimaging of Planets
The web-cam that I modified to take the images above
was one of the early B&W computer cameras and used a Texas Instruments
TC-255 CCD imaging chip. I removed the chip and housed it in a peanut
butter jar lid (perfect size and shape) to mount on the telescopes.
A Pentium 100 laptop recorded the photos. Click
to see how I modified the QuickCam
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Jupiter and four of its moons (L to R) Ganymede, Io, Callisto, Europa)
in a
composite image taken with the NexStar5 SCT (f/10) using a Barlow (2x) lens
and
my modified QuickCam camera. Two separate exposures were needed to capture
the moons and the planet.
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A high contrast image of Jupiter using the NexStar5 SCT (f/10)
and modified QuickCam.
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Saturn imaged through a Barlow (2x) lens on the NexStar5 SCT (f/10)
with the QuickCam.
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Venus imaged at half phase with the ETX and modified QuickCam.
Prime focus (f13).
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