Al Fugiero
Oxford, Connecticut, USA
rugiero22@aol.com


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Appennine Mountains and Archimedes
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This white light solar image was made with a Celestron 80mm 'Firstscope' at F 20, Celestron Solar filter and Astrovid 2000.  Frame was grabbed by a Snappy from VHS.  Seeing was a very poor 2.

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8 inch reflector at F18, 20 frames stacked. VHS and Snappy.

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COPERNICUS
8 inch Dobsonian reflector working at f/12, VHS camcorder, Snappy frame grabber.  Seeing conditions rated 5 (fair).
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Saturn and Jupiter were both imaged with an Astrovid 2000 and 8 inch f/6 Dobsonian working at f/18 in fair seeing conditions.  The Saturn image is the result of stacking 10 images.  4 images were stacked for Jupiter.  Video was recorded to VHS tape and captured to the computer with a Snappy frame grabber.
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Jupiter double transit imaged with 8 inch f/6 Dobsonian using a VHS-C camcorder afocally with 6.7mm Meade Ultrawide eyepiece. 
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