Figure 1: Image of Venus. Image taken with an 8-inch telescope with a video camera. Introduction

1. Astrophotography on Chambers Lawn IIPhysics 105: Astronomy Amy Ablondi, Jake Bates, Braden Beaudreau, Lindsay Blum, Andrew Boehm, William Bolton, Taylor Bradford, Cristina Casal, Daniel Cook, Kara Copeland, Chelsea Creta, John Edgerton, Marcus Ehrlich, Kerem Eroglu, Jessica Ewing, Jacob Fanning, Jack Hain, Taylor Hamrick, Devon Harris, Emma Kenney, Andrea Kunz, Ben Lane, Jessie Li, Youssef Mejri, Marc Miller, Matt Morrish, Patrick Muller, Lucas Mykulak, Ben Pfeffer, Meg Sanborn, Colin Schreiner, Yasmin Shahida, Dennis Shannon, Jacob Simmonds, Ben Sobel, Kate Stewart, Jake Thompson, Ian Thomson, Wilson Turner, Blanca Vidal Orga, Ryan WoodDepartment of PhysicsDavidson College, Davidson, NC, 28035 Sun Figure 6: Image of the Sun on May 1, 2012. Image taken with a Lunt 60mm solar telescope. Solar Flares and Prominences Figure 7: Image of solar flares and prominences on May 1, 2012. Image taken with a Lunt 60mm solar telescope. Moon Figure 8: Moon. Lunar images taken May 2, 2012. • Figure 1: Image of Venus. Image taken with an 8-inch telescope with a video camera. • Introduction • Solar, lunar, and planetary astrophotography is best accomplished with specialized astro video cameras. A movie is taken for 1-2 minutes consisting of between 500-1,500 frames. These frames are then aligned, stacked, and sharpened with software programs such as RegiStax. • Equipment • Mounts • Celestron GT CGEM Equatorial and CGEM Equatorial Mounts • Telescopes • Lunt 60mm Hydrogen alpha Solar Telescope • Celestron Schmidt-CassegrainCatadioptric Reflector 8-inch • Cameras • Imaging Source DFK 21AU04S color CCD camera 640 x 480 pixel array. • Imaging Source DMK 41AU02 mono CCD camera 1280 x 960 pixel array. • Software • RegiStax: image acquisition and processing program • Figure 2: Image of Imaging Source camera. Mars Figure 3: Mars in March and late April 2012. Saturn Figure 4: Saturn in late April 2012. Figure 5: Saturn in late April 2012