On the expectation of obtaining different and better astronomical images I have taken the oportunity to build custom gear for that purpose. The camera itself is an analog Sony CCD HAD 700 TVL based on the Effio chipset. I had it in my quadcopter, and decided to transplant it to this application. It has excelent low light sensitivity (indeed it outperforms the human eye in that respect!), being an interesting candidate for astrophotography.
My task was to adapt an aluminium enclosure to contain the camera sensor and the control keypad:
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Friday, December 26, 2014
Listening to Digital Radio Mondiale
The versatility of the Software Defined Radio doesn't seem to have boundaries. While exploring the HF bands, I tried to decode the occasionally received signal from Vatican Radio (http://en.radiovaticana.va/), which as of this writing was the only station I could identify as sometimes transmitting in DRM.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
SDR - going higher in the wavelengths
While a 22 - 1400 MHz band coverage is pretty cool (given the price of the hardware), there is still more beyond (and below) these bands. In particular LF, MF and HF bands are interesting for a number of reasons:
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Again with the SDR (Software Defined Radio) craze
After I bought my first RTL-SDR dongle (regarding which I made this post covering APT satellite (weather) image reception: http://creationfactory.blogspot.pt/2013/03/receiving-weather-satellite-images-with.html ), it's been sitting on the bench without much use. More recently I found extra stuff that could be interesting to take a look at, such as ADS-B reception (decoding commercial aircraft transponder signals) and less earthly things such as a doing some radio-astronomy, which includes for example trying to detect the 1420 MHz hydrogen line RF signal emitted from within our galaxy (it's a very exact frequency almost as accurate as our atomic clocks).
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/low-cost-hydrogen-line-telescope-using-rtl-sdr/
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Optical test
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Traveling
Satisfaction with the 500mm reflex lens increases as I explore its potential in different situations. This time I took a number of shots holding it by hand during an afternoon next to the Lisbon international airport main runway. It was quite a challenge because of the moving targets, the lens being a pain to focus, and the fact that the camera was being held by hand. But the results seem to tell the rest...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
World Photography Day
Coincidentally, after having purchased an exotic lens for my camera and some days of wait for the F-Mount adapter, yesterday during the World Photography Day, I finally managed to test the lens. Aware of the shortcomings of this lens, still I was very pleased with the results, which I must say, open doors to different types of photographic work.
The lens is a Samyang 500mm f/6.3 mirror prime:
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