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  • Nothing the smartphone didn't do itself (handheld, night mode)

  • No - found a local metalworker (specialising in metal staircases and metal gates for properties) - the design was based off of a wooden concept designed by an engineer friend with astronomy experience. Because of the type of scope and mount, I wanted a low wall and not just a roll-off roof. I got inspiration from a local public observatory which has a big observation platform housing a 24" scope and a bunch of others where the entire roof and sidewall rolls back, but the final design is very different - I'm super happy with it, it's extremely sturdy yet can be opened with one hand.

  • Planetary and lunar imaging works very differently than deepsky imaging. The technique behind it is called 'lucky imaging'. Only about 20% of the sharpest recorded frames actually are used in the final image.

  • Individual recordings are 5000 frames at 133fps, the field of view of the ASI462mm camera is about 4x2 arc minutes, so a number of individual stacks were combined in a mosaic to reach this resolution and field of view.

  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world

    Very high resolution Lunar photography with a 20" telescope