Category: Video

Milkyway time-lapse with Vixen Polarie & Fujifilm X-T1

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This article is about creating a time-lapse with the Vixen Polarie and a Fujifilm X-T1 camera. Tonight I did a first experiment with the Vixen Polarie. I did not know this device before. It was rent to me by a friend on La Palma. Basically it is a kind of motorized mini-mount for the camera. One the one and can track the night sky (compensate the earth rotation) for longtime exposures. This just needs a good alignment to Polaris. On the other hand one can just mount the camera in order to do time lapse recordings.

I decided for the second option and tried to make my first time lapse with the Vixen Polarie and my Fujifilm X-T1 of the milky way. Below is the result. I am quite pleased with the smooth movement from left to right. Probably something similar could also be achieved by using a good video cut software. However, doing it this way I always have the full resolution available and the post processing is simpler.

Clear skies!

Last updated: June 17, 2022 at 22:32 pm

Plane crosses sun seen through telescope!

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Sun crosses plane - 2015/03/11

After a long winter, today the sun came out and a little bit of spring seemed to arrive. I did not let this chance pass and dug out my telescope to do some sun observations. At this point I want to put a reminder:

warning

Never look into the sun without an appropriate solar filter!

Beside some visual observations I also had the plan to record some videos with my Fujifilm X-T1 camera (+adapter) to give others an impression of how the sun looks like through an 8″ Newton telescope with a solar filter. Since I am living close to an entry lane I had the luck to capture a plane flying right through my field of view! Luckily the camera was set to recording at this moment 🙂

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Sunset time-lapse through my 8″ f/5 GSO Newton Telescope

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For the first time I tried to record a short time-lapse of the sunset through my 8″ GSO Newton telescope using my Fujifilm X-T1 camera. Not very exciting… but still nice to see the sun going down behind the clouds. The telescope was mounted on an EQ6 Syntrek with tracking enabled. In the end I just disabled the tracking mode.

Clear skies!

Last updated: June 19, 2022 at 21:55 pm

See Jupiter through an 8″ f/5 GSO Newtonian telescope with a QHY5-II-m camera

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I recently bought a QHY5-II-M camera since I am currently facing USB connectivity problems with my current DMK31 from “The Image Source” on my new notebook (update: I was unfortunately not able to get it working).

I tested the new QHY5-II-M camera on Jupiter with my 8″ GSO f/5 (f=1000mm) Newtonian telescope. I took some footage without and with a 2x barlow lens.

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