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NIKON COOLPIX P1000 ASTRONOMY
This is not a telescope just a consumer camera :)
Planetary / Sun / Moon / ISS / DSO
Goto : Main NIKON Coolpix P1000 MENU
Tested Nov 11, 2018 ! The cheap NEEWER EZa-N3
works perfectly with the P1000 !
Google : Neewer Digital Timer
Remote
Shutter
Release
Trigger(Replacement for
MC-DC2)
Click on pictures for full size fine quality
JPGs
For some single still pictures (eg. Moon) there is a link to download the
original RAW file (~25 MB).
Raws have not been posted if I found after processing
that JPG pictures were really good enough !
Planetary, Moon, Sun captures piggy-back
on
my
refractor
on
an aligned polar
motorized mount...
20181108 (new Moon) Pleiades with P1000 ! 20181031 Orion M42 with P1000 !
L: 4608 x 3456, Single Exp 1/2 sec., f/5.6,
ISO-6400, FL 102 (Equ 567) mm, RAW size 25.2
MB, L:
4608 x 3456, Exp 60 sec., f/8,
ISO-100, FL 539 (Equ 3000) mm, RAW size 25.2
MB, 2 combined exposures !
NX-D capture, DSS,
RegiStax6.
Good polar alignment
I have been
asked to show the processing ... Open this link !
20181030 Orion M42 20181029 Orion M42
L: 4608 x 3456, Exp 60 sec., f/8, ISO-100,
FL 539 (Equ 3000) mm, RAW size 25.2
MB, Single Exposure ! L: 4608 x 3456, Exp 60 sec., f/8, ISO-100,
FL 539 (Equ 3000) mm, RAW size 25.2
MB, Single Exposure !
Even better polar alignment
strong and permanent gusts of wind !
Anyhow showing the maximum amount of photons this camera can grasp
with its longest available exposure.
WB and denoise in CaptureNX-D, stretching and gamma processing in RegiStax6.
20181022 Orion M42 20181020 Orion M42
L:
4608 x 3456, Exp 30 sec., f/8, ISO-100, FL 539 (Equ 3000) mm, RAW size 25.2
MB, Single Exposure ! Better alignment ! L:
4608 x 3456, Exp 1/8 sec., f/8, ISO-200, FL 539 (Equ 3000) mm, RAW size 25.2
MB, 9
Frames in DSS
Note : My motorized polar mount cannot
actually follow star about correctly for more than 10s ...
20181021 17:23
LT ISS
pass in front of the Sun
Very difficult as Sun near sunset ! Altitude= 6.8° and
very far away : distance=1696.0
km ! Moreover thin clouds ...
P1000 at ISO 6400, 1/1250 sec. exposure, f/8, 3000 mm FL, UHD 30 FPS
Real speed 25% size : 
Slowmotion
:
20181014 ISS
Third trial, hand held* ...
Images shown at 100 % size. Last image, bit blured has been kept as it shows I guess the biggest ISS image the P1000 will be able to capture.
My best ever pictures of the ISS with a consumer camera in handheld mode !
The pass was of high magnitude
14 oct. -3.9 [Mag] 18:35:39 10° NO 18:38:56 79° NE
18:42:13
10° SE (data
LT from Heavens Above)
How did I do :
Coolpix P1000 in UHD movie
manual mode
Focus in manual mode minutes before on the small Moon crescent
Parameters : ISO 800, Exp 1/1250 sec, Zoom up to 3000 mm, Aperture
f/8 (required), continuous recording.
At this magnitude the ISS was bit bright at small zoom in the electronic viewfinder !
Moreover, loosing
the ISS, handheld, at F 3000 mm is very easy !!
When it happened, I zoomed out until found again in FOV, then zooming in quickly
... until next loss :)
Processing :
MP4 movie was processed by PIPP in ISS mode, output in .PNGs.
Using Irfanview, I selected good frames (less
blurred than yesterday because of smaller exposure).
* I had
not the time to fully setup the support of the P1000 for Emmanuel's mount
...
It will be next time but not before the end of 2018 or in 2019 !
20181013 ISS
Second trial, hand held ...
Much better !
Images shown at 100 % size.
The pass was of average magnitude
13 oct. -2.7 [Mag] 19:27:42 10° ONO 19:30:51
42° SO 19:32:31 22° S
(data LT from Heavens Above)
How did I do :
Coolpix P1000 in UHD movie
manual
mode
Focus in manual mode minutes before on the small Moon crescent
Parameters : ISO 800, Exp 1/640 .. 1/800 sec, Zoom up to 3000 mm, Aperture f/8
(required), continuous recording.
At this magnitude the ISS was not bright at all at small zoom in the electronic viewfinder !
Moreover, loosing
the ISS, handheld, at F 3000 mm is very easy !!
When it happened, I zoomed out until found again in FOV, then zooming
in quickly ... until next loss :)
Processing :
MP4 movie was processed by PIPP in ISS mode, output in .SER.
Using SER Player, I selected and saved the few good frames (most are blurred
by my hands movement).
Tomorrow the ISS is much brighter then permitting shorter exposures and offering the possibility of a bit larger ISS ... will see !
20181011 ISS
First
trial, hand held ...
Capturing the ISS with a consumer camera generally gives some
sort of small often fuzzy bright spot ...
Then it is my new challenge with the P1000 !
L: 4608 x 3456, Exp 1/800 sec., f/8, ISO-400, FL 539 (Equ 3000) mm, size 5.0 MB
Ok what to think about this first trial and bad result ?
GOOD
: Chosen exposure and speed are Ok (ISS Mag -3.6) !
Note : picture at 1/4 of pass then ISS small size is normal.
BAD : My choice to take hires + RAW stills was not a good one for 2 main reasons :
- the ISS was seen just as a bright spot with no details at all in the electronic viewfinder !
- Even in full Manual mode and
full manual focus mode, when you half press the
shutter, the view is not refreshed for almost 2 seconds ! Very
bad !
then of course at 3000 mm
FL, you loose the fast moving ISS and must de-zoom a lot to find it again
!
I was incredibly lucky to get blind, at least the above image ...
What to try next time (Oct 13) ?
Chose UHD movie
manual mode !
In this mode you can continuously :
- zoom in / out with no
refresh problem
- Turn ring to ajust focus (deactivate focus zoom -> FOV too small -> loss
of ISS)
- adjust exposure and aperture
20180930 SUN
!! Be WARNED !!
!!
NEVER point the Sun without
fitting a genuine solar
astronomical filter as your camera would be instantly destroyed !!
Sun in White Light with a tiny sunspot ...
Astronomical visual solar filter from Baader.
The Sun (FL 1800 mm - Equ 35), ISO-125, 1/1600 sec.,
f/8) processed from 1 min, UHD 2160p movie
Converting .MP4 to .SER (AS!3 compatible) with PIPP (1000
/
1920
frm
kept),
AS!3 (50% kept, Convolution - Blend RAW for 50%, RGB aligned, saved as TIFF)
and Lucy
Ridchardson
Deconvolution
in Astra
Image.
Pushing the processing much farther reveals the granularity
of the Sun surface (right).
Note : the same sunspots in Halpha with the PST ...
20181030 Gibous MOON ...
L: UHD 30FPS,f/8, ISO-100
20181028 MOON in broad daylight ...
L: 4608 x 3456, Exp 1/500 sec., f/8, ISO-100, FL 359 (Equ 2000) mm handheld, 5.1MB
20180924 Full MOON ...
The Moon (FL 2000 mm - Equ 35), ISO-125,
1/400 sec., f/8) processed from 1 min, UHD 2160p movie
Converting .MP4 to .SER (AS!3 compatible) with PIPP (1200
/
1950
frm
kept),
AS!3 (50% kept, Convolution - Blend RAW for 50%, RGB aligned, saved as TIFF)
and Lucy
Ridchardson
Deconvolution
(gaussian,
0.45
/
Iter
9)
in Astra
Image.
Also see general process below @ date
20180916.
20180921 Gibbous MOON ... using for hires all the size of the sensor (P1000 turned vertically) ...
Great details on full !
20180919 Gibbous MOON with Mars close by ...
The Moon (DSCN0712, FL 2800 mm*
- Equ 35), ISO-125, 1/160 sec., f/8)
(* if 3000 mm the Moon does not fit in movie mode
!)
Processing with PIPP and AS!3 - see 20180916 - here PIPP : 1000 / 5000 frm kept
...
- LEFT : AS!3 : 50% best, convolution sharpened with
Blend RAW in for 50%, RGB align.
- CENTER : AS!3 : 50% best, RGB align, RegiStax6 WSL1_0G_WVb0g100v1000_b0g100v10_b0g100v10_b0g100v10_b0g100v10_b0g100v10__CB120_0_GA120.
- RIGHT : AS!3 : 50% best, convolution sharpened with
Blend RAW in for 50%, RGB align, WX-explorer Bilat Wv, layer1 = 1000. On this
image a tiny crater inside Plato is barely visible ...
General view ... (FL 42 mm - Equ 35 mm : 235 mm), ISO-100,
1/160 sec., f/4.5)
Mars is ... the tiny dot at bottom left ...
Mars (FL 2600 mm -
Equ 35), ISO-125, 1/80 sec., f/8)
Processing with PIPP and AS!3 - here PIPP : 1200 frm kept,
AS!3 : 30% best, convolution sharpened with Blend RAW in for 90%, RGB align but
seeing poor ...
20180917
MOON past 1st Quarter with Saturn conjunction
Single capture, FL 1100 mm, 1/20s, f/5.6,
ISO-100
..........................................................................................|||....................................<--- Saturn is here (just above ||| )!
... Saturn & Mars too !
FL 3000 mm (optical), UHD 2160p MP4, converted to SER with PIPP in planetary crop mode (300 x 300), Autostakkert!3 with convolution (Saturn blended with 25% of original, Mars with 95%)
Saturn
5100 frames, Digital Fine zoom 2X resulting in FL 6000 mm
To compare with unprocessed single image of Saturne ( no
digital zoom)
or single video frame below (using color corrections and cropping of output in PIPP)
Mars 4530 frames, no digital zoom
20180916
MOON 1st Quarter
Tonight, 1st Moon quarter !
I used the Nikon P1000 piggy-back on
my telescope (polar aligned motorized mount) in vertical position to
have the whole Moon crescent at this high magnification !
Focal length 539 mm (35 mm FL 3000 mm), Manual movie dial position, UHD 2160p
mode 30 FPS.
Manual exposure : 1/160s, F8, ISO 125, focus auto then locked in manual,
3840 x 2160.
MP4*, 1 min movie converted to SER with PIPP
then processed with Autostakkert!3 with convolution (65) and keeping 90%
of the 1920 frames, followed by wavelets and stretching in RegiStax6
(
DSCN0658 PIPP : pipp_lapl4_ap842 | AS!3 : Planetary mode, 90% Best, convolution
set at 65% of original | RegiStax6 WVG level 1 0.00 / 1.00 / 84.0 Gamma 1.10 D-ring
60%
* the UHD 2160p P1000 video - at the source of this still image - can be watched here ... https://youtu.be/njhD0UkuF-8
20180915
MOON / SATURN / MARS / JUPITER / VENUS
The Moon was already low in the Sky !
Focal length 503 mm (35 mm FL 2800 mm), 1/250s, F8, ISO 800, manual focus with 4x magnification, 4608 x 3456, both JPG and RAW (NRW) |
Focal length 503 mm (35 mm FL 2800 mm), 1/20s, F8, ISO
100 enabling RegiStax6 processing without creating too much noise, |
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NRW -> TIFF 16b -> JPG |
NRW -> TIFF 16b -> RegiStax6 (WVG-0450100100-0000100490) -> JPG |
Right click here to save as ... original RAW picture (NRW) |
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SATURN |
MARS |
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Saturn and some satellites using long exposure
... Titan, Rhea, Dione and more visible on full, Focal length 539 mm (35 mm FL 3000 mm), 5s, F8, ISO 100 4608 x 3456, JPG |
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LEGEND :
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JUPITER Focal length 539 mm (35 mm FL 3000 mm), 1/60s, F8, ISO 100 manual focus with 4x magnification, 4608 x 3456, JPG See Jupiter cloud bands on full ... |
VENUS Focal length 539 mm (35 mm FL 3000 mm), 1/160s, F8, ISO 100 manual focus with 4x magnification, 4608 x 3456, JPG, 20180913 16:23 UT |
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20180914 MOON
Focal length 539 mm (35 mm FL 3000 mm), 1/10s, F8, ISO 100, manual focus with
4x magnification,
4608 x 3456, both JPG and RAW (NRW) |
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NRW -> TIFF 16b -> JPG |
NRW -> TIFF 16b -> RegiStax6 (WVG-0450100100-0000100490) -> JPG |
Right click here to save as ... original RAW picture (NRW) |
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