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MaxIm DL/CCD Screen
Version 4 screen shot. |
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Eta Carinae Nebula
By Australian astrophotographer Luke Dodd... "Despite being new to CCD photography, I am very impressed with the ease of stacking and
colour manipulation of images with your program. My first ever tricolor
photo, a shot of Eta Carinae, was taken with the ST11000 through a 5"
refractor. Considering I spent no time learning to use the program, I
cannot believe how quickly I combined the RGB images to produce such a
nice image, all because your program is so intuitive!" |
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Orion Nebula
This image of Messier 42, the Orion Nebula, was taken by Matt Russell on November 17, 2001 in Crosslake MN. He used a Takahashi FSQ-106N
with an SBIG ST-10E and CFW-8. It is a combination of twenty 2-minute luminance, five 2-minute red, five 2-minute green, and seven 2-minute blue exposures. |
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Mars
This Mars image was taken by Russ Lund using an SBIG ST-5C camera.
The exposure was 0.75 sec red and green, and 1.00 sec blue. He used
the sequence feature of MaxIm DL/CCD to take 30 images of each. He
then picked the best of each color. A gamma stretch was applied to
blue, followed by unsharp mask, color combine, and color smoothing. |
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Moon Mosaic
This moon mosaic was taken by Gregory Terrance using a 12.5" Ritchey-Chretien
and IMG1300 camera. Image assembled using MaxIm DL's mosaic command. |
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Moon Mosaic
This mosaic of the 9 day old moon was taken on June 11, 2000
by Craig Zerbe. It is made up of 29 mosaiced frames, each of which comprises 6
stacked images, for a total of 174 images. The final full-size image
was 6 million pixels - the version shown here has been reduced to 1.5
million. The original images were taken at f/10 using a Celestron
11 SCT and an Astrovid 2000 video camera. Processed using high pass Kernel
Filters, a 3x3 Median Kernel filter and some stretching. |
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Lunar Crater Copernicus
Moon crater Copernicus by Bill Cannistra on October 11, 2000.
Meade LX50-10" w/ Pictor 416XT CCD. 1/1000 sec exp. 3" mask.
Prime focus. f6.3 focal reducer. Calibrated. Low pass more kernel filter.
Low pass more unsharp mask @80% weight. FFT low pass hard digital
development filter. Color balance to gray / brown tone. |
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Mars
Mars by Maurizio Di Sciullo on April 2, 1999. Excelsior
Optics E-258 10" (25 cm) f/8 Newtonian using eyepiece projection @
f/48, Starlight Xpress HX-516 CCD camera, True Technologies Dichroic
Filters + IR block. No dark frame, flat fielding or bias correction
applied. Camera operated in binned mode. |
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Mars
Mars by Maurizio Di Sciullo on April 3, 1999. Excelsior
Optics E-258 10" (25 cm) f/8 Newtonian using eyepiece projection @
f/48 Starlight Xpress HX-516 CCD camera, True Technologies Dichroic
Filters + IR block. No dark frame, flat fielding or bias correction
applied. Camera operated in binned mode. Color processing using MaxIm DL. |
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Venus
Venus imaged using an ultraviolet filter on a Starlight
Xpress HX516. Taken by Maurizio Di Sciullo on May 27, 1999. Processed with
maximum entropy deconvolution. |
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Mars
Mars before and after processing by Tom Richards.
Combination of four images, processed with maximum entropy deconvolution
and FFT-filtered unsharp mask. Taken with a 180 mm Astrophysics refractor
with SBIG ST-7 camera at 0.35 arc-seconds per pixel. |
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Mars
Mars at only 14 degrees altitude from Sweden by
Magnus Nyborg. Taken with 12" LX200 @ F/29, Pictor 416XT exposure 0.1
sec, 5 best images selected from a sequence of 15 shots, stacked and
processed. First image stacked but unprocessed, second with MaxEnt, third
with MaxEnt and mild unsharp mask. |
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Solar Prominences
Solar prominences taken by Giovanni Dal Lago on April
19, 1998. Pair shows before and after maximum entropy deconvolution.
Takahashi CN-212 @ Cassegrain f/12.4 stopped down to f/30, Daystar ATM
0.6A filter, SXL8 CCD. |
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Inner Orion Nebula
Spectacular view of the Trapezium area of the Orion
Nebula (M42) by Giovanni Dal Lago. Celestron 14" at f/7 and a DTA
HiResII 1600 CCD camera. Average of sixteen 8-minute exposures for luminance,
ten 8-minute exposures for red and green, and fourteen 12-minute exposures for
blue. Processed with MaxIm DL and Adobe Photoshop. |
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Galaxy M82
M82 by Giovanni Dal Lago. Three versions to show raw, FFT high-pass filtering,
and maximum entropy deconvolution. |
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Galaxy NGC891
NGC891 by Tim Puckett. Color processing and automatic
tricolor merge with MaxIm DL. Apogee AP7, 10 minutes R/G/B, 24"
Ritchey Chretien working at F5. |
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Galaxy NGC7331
NGC7331 by Tim Puckett. 60 cm F/8 Ritchey Chretien
reflector w/Apogee AP7 CCD. 10 Minutes R/G/B, 15 MaxEnt iterations on each
component, automatic tri-color merge. |
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Flame Nebula
Flame nebula (NGC 2024) by Giovanni Dal Lago. Before/after MaxEnt pair. |
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Trapezium Region of the Orion Nebula
Orion nebula (M42) by Paul Boltwood. Homemade CCD
camera, before/after MaxEnt pair. |
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Comet Hale Bopp
Comet Hale-Bopp, six months before perihelion, by Doug George and Peter
Ceravolo. HiSIS-22 CCD camera (60 seconds unguided), auto-optimize dark
frame calibration, unsharp mask w/ geometric mean mask, gamma stretch. |
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