About
For over 18 years Martin Lewis has been capturing images of the planets from his back garden in St Albans, using his home-built 222mm and 444mm Dobsonian telescopes. In more than 700 sessions, he has built up a wealth of practical experience, helping him produce exquisitely detailed, prize-winning images of our near neighbours in space. His journey has taken him from imaging surface details on tiny Sun-scorched Mercury and mapping the planet Mars, to imaging the cloud shrouded surface of Venus, and even capturing the rings of Uranus. In this talk he will share 10 less well-known tips which could help you to improve your planetary imaging.

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Agenda
  • Digital video planetary imaging – a quick overview
  • 5 well known things that affect your planetary imaging
  • 10 less well-known tips to improve your planetary imaging
Presenters
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Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis is a professional engineer and amateur planetary imager and telescope builder. He images from his back garden in St.Albans, Hertfordshire, using his home-built 444mm and 222mm Dobsonian telescopes on a home-built equatorial platform. Martin has been a prize-winner in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for the last six years – winning both first and second prize in the Planets section in 2018 and first prize in the Our Moon category in 2022. He is an equipment advisor in the Equipment and Techniques section of the British Astronomical Association.
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Chris Bramley
Chris Bramley is the Editor of BBC Sky at Night Magazine. A journalist by training, he has been covering space and astronomy since 2005 and has headed up the magazine's editorial team since 2011.
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