LWIR Moon seen on cloudynitghts.com

[Lambda]

Hello,

I have just seen this thread on this well known cloudynights US astro forum, and wanted to share it with you here.

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/843050-thermal-imaging-with-a-telescope/

Very impressive results!

Regards.

Stéphane

[Vipitis]

Thanks for sharing. There have been two or three good moon photos shared on this forum before, using lenses and telescopes.

Just yesterday I was browsing through the Richard Mosse print of Incoming and saw the giant moon in LWIR with the 23kg lens, and it's not as great in terms of contrast as what is shared there. The processing does make a difference it seems.

Reminds me strongly of my first hopes when getting into thermal cameras, astrophotography and never having made it.

[Fraser]

We need one of these 

I have the FLIR science camera, but not the telescope/lens 

[ArsenioDev]

I uhhhhh know a guy.
Seriously though, I think the trackers are due for upgrades soonish and will be on surplus markets if you know where to look and when 

[Fraser]

   

[Lambda]

Just yesterday I was browsing through the Richard Mosse print of Incoming and saw the giant moon in LWIR with the 23kg lens, and it's not as great in terms of contrast as what is shared there. The processing does make a difference it seems.

Reminds me strongly of my first hopes when getting into thermal cameras, astrophotography and never having made it.

Thank you Vipitis for this reference. Indeed, the post processing is essential for increasing contrast and details, and SNR more generally speaking. Stacking is the starting keypoint (IMHO), commonly used by the way in traditional astrophotography, or EEA.

I did also some attempts with Moon, light years from this kind of results, but encouraging. I have to admit i would find great to see more disclosure in the forum about this kind of application in diverse DIY project: long range observation, thermal astronomy. A great field quite positively challenging for hobbyist.

What an optical assembly you present to us here Fraser.... I am falling in love.... I try to imagine the satisfaction to observe through such system, with the proper thermal camera..... Hoping you will find such lens!

Regards.

Stéphane

[Bill W]

I did also some attempts with Moon, light years from this kind of results, but encouraging. I have to admit i would find great to see more disclosure in the forum about this kind of application in diverse DIY project: long range observation, thermal astronomy. A great field quite positively challenging for hobbyist.

Sadly the FlirOne 'frankencamera' used with my 150mm lens ( forum posts and http://www.fire-tics.co.uk/project4/lenses.htm ) falls apart faster than I can fix it due to both USB and battery connections.  Will try one last fix before changing to a 17um sensor where I can build far better and get raw data out.

That said the GroupGets FlirOne tCam-mini mentioned recently might be worth trying:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/what-do-you-want-to-see-discussed-here/msg4431424/#msg4431424