Los Sauces Astronomy and Activity Holidays in
Andalucía Spain.
Add a night or several nights of star gazing to
your holiday and be really shocked at what you can see even
through a pair of binoculars.
Through the telescopes you will be able to see star
clusters, galaxies and nebulas on even a reasonable night.
For day time viewing we use a hydrogen alpha filter for
photographing and viewing the sun, solar flares and sun
spots.
Slid show of example
photographs from the Los Sauces Observatory.
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Venus across the sun taken with the
Celestron and a video camera.
Above M13 The Hercules Cluster will expand up to A4 and keep
its clarity.
This shot consisted of ten stacked images. |
The Celestron 14 inch pictured right.
This telescope is the mainstay of our astronomy
evenings. It is mounted on a wedge in the observatory and
has all the features you would expect from a modern
telescope.
This includes electronic control of both the telescope and
the focusing.
The deep space camera used with the scope is a 6 megapixel
cooled colour camera SXV-M25C superHAD USB interface.
There is a finder scope attached and a guide scope with a
Loadstar SX guide camera.
Using Astroart, Starry night pro 6 and Maxim DL software
for processing and guiding gives all users the ability to
produce mind blowing deep space
photography.
Feed back so far has been excellent with clients taking away
full colour photographs of their work and raw images for
processing with their own software at home.
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The GPS Nexstar 11 inch Celestron
telescope and goto mount.
The 11 inch Celestron pictured left is great for star gazing and a
camera can be fitted for deep space photography.
It has the capability to take a guide camera but generally
we use it for eye viewing while the 14 inch is being used
for photography.
This is a great goto scope with GPS and a full star guide built in. |
The Spiral Galaxy
Taken by Simon. C Smith during his stay at Los Sauces.
This photograph of the Spiral Galaxy is a one shot 3 minute
exposure and produced an image that is still good at A4.
The quality is excellent and as the software and equipment
is tuned to perfection we are expecting deep space
photographs of the very highest quality. |
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The Sunflower Galaxy
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TThe Sunflower Galaxy
This photograph of the Sun Flower Galaxy is a one
shot image taken over 3 minutes and enlarges up to A5
retaining a good quality image.
Once again taken by Simon C. Smith the image shows the
detail and accuracy of the equipment and the excellent
rewards for taking time and care during an image taking
session.
As the equipment and software are developed we hope to take
images that are second to none well perhaps the Hubble.
One thing you can be sure of is that time spent at Los
Sauces will be interesting and rewarding.
All images are free to take away by the astronomer using the
equipment and the amount of supervision when using the
equipment is directly related to the knowledge and
experience of the user.
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The Black Eye Galaxy.
Taken by Vic Punch a one shot image 4 minutes using
the loadstar guide camera and the M25C.
This was a test picture taken with very little preparation.
The colour balance is wrong as it is on most of the
shots but this is being worked on to provide higher quality.
The sharpness is week but again with stacking this could be
corrected and will be as we progress with the observatory.
It is very rewarding to see your first images coming off the
scope and being in full colour and with little or no
processing produce a stunning image that with processing
will be work to be proud of.
If you would like a dedicated astronomy holiday with not
only great equipment but a heated pool and superb
accommodation then contact Activity Holidays. |
The Black Eye Galaxy.
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