Paul Smith's Blog

My main areas of interest can be divided up into three neat little groups. Science, politics and technology. I'm an astronomer and sceptic. Some of my astro-photos can be found in my gallery. Politically I'm a socialist, a member of the Yeovil Labour Party and am their parliamentary candidate for Yeovil, I'm also a member of the Labour Representation Committee and I stand for the liberation and the improvement of living standards for all working people, I don't believe that is possible with capitalism. The main areas of technology I'm interested in is computing. I'm a Microsoft MVP for Windows and am actively involved in several online communities. I also co-host a PC and console game related podcast called Gamercast.

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Through the atmosphere

So what do the videos I take look like? Here's one, 1.6MB, looking at the Moon through the barlow lens - this is why I use a webcam instead of a normal camera, there's a better chance that by shooting video I'll get some decent frames where the atmosphere for a split second is more stationary.

Of course it's then a case of picking out the best frames and aligning and stacking them - luckily tools like Registrax handle the aligning quite well.

If you want to see some raw Saturn video take a look at this, 10MB, another problem with the atmosphere - cloud.