I have a Celestron 11 EDGE (Schmidt-Cassegrain) that I have tried
using my K-3 on for planets and the moon. I have had some success
with lunar photography but no luck with Mars, Jupiter of Saturn.
Shooting individual shots usually turn out blurred due to atmospheric
turbulence. The current fashion is to shoot video and then use a
specialized program like Registax or Lykeos to process and pick out
the best frames...and then stack those into a single image. The
results using this method can be amazing, and I don't see why it
wouldn't work with a Bigma, either.
The problem is that even with a teleconverter on the C11, the K-3
does not give enough magnification to give decent results on the
planets. What serious planetary photographers are using are small
webcam type video cameras. The small sensors result in a high
magnification.
I received such a camera, a Celestron Nextimage5, for Christmas. I'm
still figuring out how to use it.
At 4:14 PM +0200 6/21/19, Alan C wrote:
Mine wasn't as sophisticated as that - manual control only but I
suppose the flexible hand drives could have been connected to a
motor. Newtonian too. Optics much better than the refractor.
Alan C
On 21-Jun-19 04:02 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Newtonian. Fairly good optics, but the motor on the mount burned out, so
that it no longer tracks well, making sharp focus difficult.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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