Low budget astronomy by Jörg Hartmann

Low budget Astronomy with a 'webscope'
Hello (new) astronomer, on this site you will find a simply way to make your own first steps in astronomy. Since I have my Sony S-70 digicam, I use my Canon EOS-1000 anlog camera and my Philips web cam more and more seldom. So what can you do with it ? Below, you can see the answer. I am very surprised about the pictures and movies these combination provides, because the zoom performance is more than you can expect from a normal 300mm tele photo. The moon and the sun can be seen clearly in 640x480 resolution, the diameters fit exactly. With the USB connector you can capture photos and movies directy in your PC - no exposure time. It seems amazing doesn't it?
La luna pictures
black & white photo 640x480 55KB	colorized photo in 800x600 60KB

airplain crossing 640x480 22KB	3D - two pictures taken in a short interval, you need red and green glasses to see this.
videos codec1: mpeg4 renderering download (135KB) for most of the videos you need the mpeg4, otherwise you find codec at the video. codec2: this movie needs the Indeo 5 codec download 1.9MB
19 - seconds 2.4MB, 320x240,

original video no resize or recompression very very nice! 59 - seconds, 640x480 3.03MB normal speed and video renderering

Jupiter
Jupiter is more difficult to capture than the moon. It is much smaller than the moon (because of the distance), so the webscope is not as good as for the moon, but let's have a look at Jupiter.

14.01.2001 ~15 images out of a movie, processed with Astro Stack
First shots the orginal detail shot (don't know why it is green) now I tried digital editing and enlargement to see what we can get
see the original movie, Jupiter moves from left to right and becomes slowly dark behind a chesnut branch. 1:29, 640x480, 950KB
Venus
captured 31.12.2000 14:08 (yep - daytime) captured 14.01.2001 17:17

Sun

14.01.2001 Frankfurt. Image processed with Astro Stat form an 6MB uncompressd avi movie. ~ 15 Pictures sun spots
12.11.2000 original 640x480	sun and airplane original 640x480
video
the sun moves to the right, a few clouds come into the picture. You can see some little sunspots. original video, 640x480, 29 seconds 3.4 MB normal video rendering download (135KB)

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