The Astronomy Camera Paradise !
Copyright 1999 - 2026, Sylvain Weiller ... in Jerusalem (Mail of contact: sweiller@free.fr)

Updated January 18, 2026
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Here you will find Solar Halpha, white light, Lunar, Planetary, ISS, Near and Thermal IR, UV & Stereo-3D, etc...

AboutMe

HEADLINES

SER_TOOLS V2.0


Original Freewares
Astronomy
Miscellaneous
SER_TOOLS V2.0
Useful tools to Chunk, Decimate, Play, Frame by Frame, Play fast or Reverse, Zoom, Resize, Synthetic Flat, Eliminate Clouds + all SER Header Infos

MP4, MOV FlatField Dust Killer V1.11
A post-processing method for removing sensor dust from movies using a reconstructed flat-field technique

FireCapture Camera Restarter V2.0
To help restore the camera’s functions as previously saved when it becomes disconnected for minor reasons...

MP3 Channel Fixer V1.1
Prominence Aligner Pro V2.0
A powerfull tool to align long lasting session of spectacular prominence acquisitions!
My Android Device Info V2.0
A simple but powerfull Android tool to post all available hidden infos!
 

Keogram Master V1.0
A complete tool to generate even bidirectional Keogram!

ALARMClock! V.096
Don't miss an important astronomical event anymore !
Mainly for ISS passes ...
Advanced Eclipse Aligner V1.6.1
Fantastic alignement tool for partial solar eclipse images!
Batch Replace Old Files V1.0.1,
User friendly utility to batch replace all or some older files on disk or folder
with a selected one of the same name!
Multi-SER Previewer V1.1.3,
A convenient way to preview hundreds of SER files in a simple animation!
3D Printed Spirographs V1.6,
A lot of fun watching animations, 3D printers compatible!
SolarGun V1.7,
Light-speed solar images processing!

Flare Cleaner + limb quality control (and always Earth, Jupiter at scale even if no Sun's limb in images!
)
+ Batch Colorization
Color Palette Generator V1.0,
Create a high quality color palette from almost any image!
GOES-SunGun V1.3.1
Flare Recording Controler!
(Bonus: Software to create batch of any extensions, multi-size pseudo files)
GIF Inspector V1.4,
Powerfull GIF diagnostic tool!
FFMPEG for GIF creation full verification and internal test.
CropCenter
Make different images centered and same size.
ScreenVision,
Select a part of the screen and zoom in high quality, sharpen, rotate, miror, plus 3D operations.

MinImageSize
Crop different images at minima for registration.

ColorPeekerBasic, V2.4.2
Get the color of any screen pixel when under the mouse, in the most useful formats !

SGE
Star Guiding Emulator
Test autoguiding, periodic errors, etc. ! Indoors !

Corono 0.4 beta

Cuts a clean prominence / Sun line !

 

StarMax v2.5.25 | En | Fr
 Beautiful and original Star Trails !

 

 

My Youtube channel sweillerYT  is full of great videos !
Another site
XPERIENCES

  Visits of this site from beginning :

astronomy

Live Broadcast
Click on "LIVE NOW !" if blinking.
(Generally Lives are of the Sun in H-alpha)

Prominence Aligner Pro (PAP v2)
 
GIF Animations* done with PAP ...

148 original PNG images, all of slightly different sizes, resulting from Autostakkert 4 registration of 1 min SER files.
Shown here at 33% original size.
Great stabilized result obtained in just a few minutes and a few mouse clicks! No more headaches! Shown here at 50% original size.
Colorized result obtained with first, batch colorizing, optional Corono effect & scaled planet insertion in the latest v1.7 version of SolarGun!
Shown here at 50% original size.

* 40MB!

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2h40 animation, 1 frame / min, 15 FPS of a large prominence (2025/05/25)
Download full resolution video in MP4 here

Testing Stereo 3D !
Download in (X) crossed-eyes 3D or (P) parallel 3D, MP4 format:
Full Width X | Half width P special -> TV3D | Full Width P



In context with Sun disk visible (acquisition in 16b, Process SolarGun)

 
     

 

 

20200621 / PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE PREVIEW
Page with complete step by step processing asap.
Click on thumbnails for larger ...
in H Alpha
in White Light
 
 
Shadows of Northern lunar mountains !
Up to 4K (2160p) version visible at
https://youtu.be/I3CIZvuZIUs
Up to 4K (2160p) version visible at
https://youtu.be/c5VLsNJ3paM
Autostakkert!3
RegiStax6
RegiStax6 200%
RegiStax6 200% crop

RegiStax6 600% horizontally only

... Also on Youtube already some explanations ...
Reconstruction of the eclipse in 3D with Lusol3D. Universal 3D view (X & //)

 

 

 

Recent additions ....

 

[SOLVED see 6] Latest Windows10.ISO file is too large for a 4.7GB DVD Installation !

LOST PIPP SITE MIRROR !

Mars opposition 2020 Animations and more !

No more Newton Rings on H alpha captures ... Easy and Free !!

Long awaited sunspot !
20200607 +

Jupiter Rotation (GRS Visible)
2D & 3D Pictures and Animations

53° ISS Pass (20190729)

Revolution PST ... Episode II !
updated 20190510

MOON 63° HIGH !
Rimae Triesnecker And Alpine Valley Rille (20190512

Tropical Fishes In 3D (Elat)

Large Moon Terminator Mosaic

A little Revolution for the Coronado PST !

MY AFFORDABLE HI SPEED - SLOWMO CONSUMER CAMERAS

Hyperfocus 3D Pumpkin Flower with TG4

SONY A7S + 3D LOREO MACRO !

 

Jupiter GRS Rotation in 3D   and much more !

Near Infrared in 3D - Stereo !

GoPro Hero3+ (not turning ON) !

Stunning difference between Sony A7s original vs Astrodon Halpha

Silky Water Effects (no tripod, no filters, no long exposures !) and
3D pictures of live waters done with a single lens camera !!

2017/08/21 Partial Solar Eclipse

SATURN Opposition 2017

First Quarter Moon (HiRes @ 720 nm) 20170601

Jupiter : Large FOV _ GRS _ Satellites (20170603)

Solar granulation 1 1/2 hour animation ! (20170522)

Jupiter : WinJupos 10 min Derotation (20170510)

Solar granulation animations in near IR (20170514&18)

Complete Transit of Io and The GRS ! (20170420)

JUPITER in 3D (20170517) !

 

MAIN ASTRONOMY SECTION 
TRACKING
CAMERAS
LIVE BROADCAST
Astromovies
The Solar System in action !
Saturn/Moon occultation, Sun in Halpha, Jupiter moons ....

CANON EOS DSLR :

Huge FOV webcam controled by "EOS Camera Movie Record" !

liveview + EOS-movrec (exploding balloons ! )
script by Denis Joye : ESR2

Extracting the IRcut filter of a Canon EOS ( 300D)

D.I.Y. Livecast !!!

BEST SOFTWARES*** ::

Join ISSTracking group !

FUJIFILM:

Fuji W3 3D camera

Fuji W3-3D underwater

Fuji Finepix HS10 / HS 11 great possibilities

Livecast
3 days during 2007 opposition of Mars.
Click here for astromovie !


Instant X-rayFlux

FlareCapture 3
Not working as used X-ray Flux Internet page has gone!
Was: Control of Torsten's FireCapture or SharpCap recordings when a flare starts !

Outer planets ( Mars , Mars_Opposition |Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus )

Thermal Infrared (TIR)
including macros & 3D !

 

    Planes

In front of Sun & Moon

STL-11000M
Deep Sky Objects / Solar / Lunar
Meteor showers (Quadrantides)

Broadcasting Live !

 

(SWF-SolarWhiteFlares)
Better use SolarGun 1.5+ now !!

  Solargraphs




Comets

Lovejoy
Lulin

+ 3D processing ...

 


Iridium

SlowMoCam3D
... postponed by Corona

Live ...

 

       

 

Asteroids : 2004 BL86

 

 

   
  
SatTraker Beta
   
 *** Terms and conditions :

By using
our homemade softwares

you fully agree that this is exclusively at your own risks !

     

See more index at bottom of page ...

 

ISS transit (colorized composition) on the Sun in Halpha ...
Fluorite PV 100/900, Coronado SM90, reducer 6.3, ASI174MM camera Date : May 2, 2016 07:39:50 UT (in my garden)
Click on Sun for special web page with pictures, details and videos !
ISS transit on the Sun in Halpha ...
Fluorite PV 100/900, Coronado SM90, ASI174MM camera Date : Feb 16, 2016 (at home)

 

 

City of Jerusalem / M42 The Orion Nebula ... Mar 6, 2018 Altitude 52° !
LX200 10", defiltered A7s-Astrodon-Halpha, 381 x 5s @ISO 6400,
Total exposure 32 min, Drk+Flt. DSS for alignement, etc ...
SoftOrbit photo retoucher for noise reduction, CS2 for levels.
Bigourdan (Polaris invisible). Click for full size

City of Jerusalem / M42 The Orion Nebula ... Mar 10, 2018 Altitude 52° !
LX200 10", defiltered A7s-Astrodon-Halpha, 173 x 15s @ISO 1600,
Total exposure 43 min 15 s. DSS for alignement, etc ...
CS2 for levels & noise reduction
Resized to HD. Better Bigourdan. Click for full size

 


Click on left image to see the umbra at full size or on the right one to go to the related page with links to large astromovies !

 

Totality Animation !

Or click on picture below to open Moon total eclipse 2015 root page (7 cameras used !) ...

Click to open the page containing this more than one meter large Sun H-alpha image during X2 !!

Deep Sky Messier M1 Messier M2 Messier M3 Messier M4 Messier M5 Messier M6 Messier M7 Messier M8 Messier M9 Messier M10 Messier M11 Messier M12 Messier M13 Messier M14 Messier M15 Messier M16 Messier M17 Messier M18 Messier M19 Messier M20 Messier M21 Messier M22 Messier M23 Messier M24 Messier M25 Messier M26 Messier M27 Messier M28 Messier M29 Messier M30 Messier M31 Messier M32 Messier M33 Messier M34 Messier M35 Messier M36 Messier M37 Messier M38 Messier M39 Messier M40 Messier M41 Messier M42 Messier M43 Messier M44 Messier M45 Messier M46 Messier M47 Messier M48 Messier M49 Messier M50 Messier M51 Messier M52 Messier M53 Messier M54 Messier M55 Messier M56 Messier M57 Messier M58 Messier M59 Messier M60 Messier M61 Messier M62 Messier M63 Messier M64 Messier M65 Messier M66 Messier M67 Messier M68 Messier M69 Messier M70 Messier M71 Messier M72 Messier M73 Messier M74 Messier M75 Messier M76 Messier M77 Messier M78 Messier M79 Messier M80 Messier M81 Messier M82 Messier M83 Messier M84 Messier M85 Messier M86 Messier M87 Messier M88 Messier M89 Messier M90 Messier M91 Messier M92 Messier M93 Messier M94 Messier M95 Messier M96 Messier M97 Messier M98 Messier M99 Messier M100 Messier M101 Messier M102 Messier M103 Messier M104 Messier M105 Messier M106 Messier M107 Messier M108 Messier M109 Messier M110

Cells with black background have link !


The incredible green comet 17P / Holmes !
wallpapers ! Also shown in Persei with star names !
See what even a Sony camcorder is able to do !

The largest full Moon of 2009  !


Longest 21 st century eclipse in China

Satellites rotation  !

 

Saturn occultation by the Moon (20070202)
click on images for large size and also
See astromovies (Occultations section)


Moon total eclipse of March 2007
Also see the astromovies !

Solar Eclipse 20060329


Comet C/2006/P1/ McNaught, (click also here).

Infos
 

 

3D : 3D Astronomy

Generic 3D index

3D gallery
W3-3D underwater

Single mirror macro 3D

Learn stereoscopic vision
DXG 3D camera
"Mondial Automobile" (2006 PARIS), 3D movies !

Miscelleanous 1 : DSOs :

Meteo France, UK
Lightning
 Near Infrared
Wratten color filter curves
Starting spectroscopy
Testing Shelyak Education Spectroscope
ATM, Collimation & Tips
Atmospheric phenomena
Thermography + Macro
Video-astronomy
Radio-astronomy


Startrails (& planets) Starmax
Fight light pollution: The P-Dark technic
A new start with good basis
Imaging with the partially de-filtered Canon 40D
Old Canon cameras
SGE: Star Autoguiding Software
SDC-435 up to 512 frm integration

Miscelleanous 2 : Links :

Frost patterns
Free nature & astronomy wallpapers
"Solved big Problems !"
Tips !
QUIZ
Laser
Webcam sensors (CCD)
Purus-Astro-Mechanik
LucamRecorder SER
Drone Imaging

LOST PIPP SITE MIRROR !

Webcam/DLSR softwares & Utilities
Weather
Famous World CCD links
Astro links selection
Usefull items
Selected astro logos
Download Vesta Pro Driver for Windows 7, 8, 10 !!

Image processing :

CORONO
Share the solar state (H-Alpha, disk + prominences) in less than 10 min !
Jupiter french challenge
Saturn & Encke french challenges
Screen Vision ... Enhance your vision!
Processing examples (ex.Mars)
PDark
RCE 2008
RCE 2012 (pol
BatchMaker (ZIP files for use with RegiStax5 ... Much better implementation in RegiStax6 !)
RGB-Switcher  for LG UHD TVs "Avatar's color problem" and more

 

My beginnings :

Old cameras
1280*1024 CMOS webcam : MEGAPIXEL USB TRUST LIVE
Deep sky (old webcams)
SC modded webcams for long exposures
Trepassing the Jupiter gate !
Accessories
Microscopy
Google Maps/Earth vs World Wind
Souvenirs
Telescopes and Cameras

Astronomy-awards (closed in 2006)
Docs_Manuals_UserGuides

Astronomy Awards Winner
Softwares in development :
Corono & ImgBatchRotate, etc...

Misceleanous (technical):

Bahtinov Masks returns with more details ...
Testing GoPro 3D Dual Hero System
A7s short exposures astrophotos !

Events :

Mercury transit on the Sun ! (20160509)
SolarGraph (2016 Jun 19 .. Dec 21)
About CaK !

Misceleanous (iss) :

Hires ISS pass in color with A7s (Update 20161214 ... Entering Earth shadow F= 2m !)
ISS& SpaceX-9 : 20160726
Hires Plane tracking : https://youtu.be/wYsNmThjuR0
and more technical :
https://youtu.be/2cLwcRQiMmw (Windy cloudy weather !)
https://youtu.be/hoYEfwrBgww (at night !)
ISSpass in great colors and in 3D : 20161011
ISStransit on the Sun ! (20160502)

PC monitor setting
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