Hello Ajay, Congratulation for the great work :-) I hope you'll manage to photographs the beautiful sky from Mt. Everest (Sagarmatha),actual top of the world...
*SPACE TEAM receives Kudos for Success in Great Indian Star Count Program: *SPACE recently concluded the Great Indian Star Count program (Oct 29th - Nov 12th)...
hi all, my nephew would like to give away his canon 20d( not 20da) at whatever is the market price. I remember it is 8mp camera and know that it is not ...
Perfect setting for a nice astrophoto. Mercury, sunset, jet at 36000 feet all contributed to this image taken by SPACE team members during the flight from...
Hello Fellow Astronuts, I'd like to share a short video that I've prepared of the Emerging False dawn or the Zodiacal light. My friend, Nilesh Vayada shot 200...
Dear ABAA and BAS members thank you all for making the astrofest Kalpaneyayatre2010 a big success. Shylaja Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium Bangalore Association...
Hello Fellow Astronuts, Daylight photographers and lay persons who see astrophotographs think that it was take with some exotic instruments which is out of...
Hi Ajay, Did you use any motorized mount for this photo or did you just use tripod? (With only tripod and camera, i'd expect a lot of trailing). Regards, ...
"... These the seven names they bear; Alcyone and Merope, Celaeno, Taygeta, and Sterope, Electra, And queenly Maia, small alike and faint, But by the will of...
Dear friends, I was recently working on parallax method of stellar distance measurement. The method in itself is very elegant and simple but whats troubling me...
... The paper http://www.jdso.org/volume4/number2/Vollmann_74_77.pdf by an Austrian amateur astronomer who detected the parallax, proper motion and orbital...
... Must have been a real technical feat considering that the highest parallax is about the same as the seeing. I can only admire the dedication with which...
Hi friends, The skies around Bangalore is clearing after a long gap for which we were eagerly waiting for testing my updated Equatorial Mount which has been...
It may be better to start with the Barnard's star to get a feel of the method. Otherwise seeing effects will give depressing results Shylaja Jawaharlal Nehru...
congrats! it is a great feat indeed! Shylaja Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium Bangalore Association for Science Education Sri T. Chowdaiah Road, High Grounds ...
Dear All, Please visit http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~aaa/meteor/meteor_shower.html and http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~aaa/meteor/meteor_shower_gem.html tonight the...
Hello Dilip, This looks good. You could think of putting a handle on the knob, like that on a sewing machine, to facilitate hand guiding. Ajay Talwar ...
Thank you Ajay, The handle may not give so much control as turning the knob by fingers, its actually difficult to turn with left hand than right, but...
Hi Dilip, I have never used Deep Sky Stacker, but I guess that you have to stretch the image using levels and curves alternatively. That is what I do after...
Thank you Ajay, I will try altering the curves. About the workshop in March will keep in mind, thanks. Dilip. ________________________________ From: Ajay...
'From Black Holes to the Universe: A New View' Chandrasekhar Centennial Lecture by Sir Roger Penrose, FRS, Rouse Ball Professor Emeritus at the University of...