From the Digitalastro group: I heard this news from Yun Lee of Korea. After a 10 month period of trial and error at cooling the Rebel 350D, he has applied a...
That is pretty interesting.......Note that it costs more than the 20Da. It is hard to tell from the webpage just what you get. Is there active cooling, or just...
Alex et al; The website says: *Cool down the temperature of CMOS sensor about 20 celsius degree from that of ambient air.(with EXcooler ON) It is prolly a...
Hello there, I have yet to come out there, but I don't think it'll be happening this weekend either. It appears that the fire is pretty close to the GMARS...
Steve, I was planning a trip out to GMARS this weekend, but I called out there and was told it was pretty smokey.....I guess the fire was at least 10 miles...
Thanks for the update Alex. Glad to hear that GMARS is safe. I hope to come out there soon, but I don't know when I will be able to. I just spent some time...
Well, we will be at Mt. Laguna this weekend. There is still some room if you care to join us. See Rivastro.org for details. Alex ... weekend. ... out ... at ...
The Orange COunty club is again sponsoring their Astro Image conference August 11-12. I haven't been able to make it there in the past, but am all signed up ...
Contact Todd Niccole if interested, email NiccTo@ a o l .com Remove the spaces in aol, yahoo doesn't allow to post an aol link. For items $500 and above only a...
Hi everybody, This is a reminder that we will actually be doing some image processing tonight--so bring your laptop if you would like so you can follow along. ...
Hi All, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed the class the other night. Being able to use our computers on an actual exercise was very useful. Even though...
Hey Danny, I just talked to Mark Melnyk who went out there for Friday night and he said that although the sky was very transparent and clear, it was very...
Hi all, Sorry for my abrupt last message. I just joined the group and was looking for some quick info on GMARS. Thank you, Mark and Dan for your responses. So,...
Did anyone make it out to GMARS last weekend? It was pretty windy all over so I was wondering if it was a problem out there, too. With all the wind, I was able...
Danny, I was there for three nights starting on Thursday. Thursday night was windy but not the rest of the weekend. Alex, Bob Stephens, Mark Melnyk, and Todd...
Dan--conditions were actually very good. There was no wind Friday and Saturday, although Alson was pretty well blown around Thursday. One thing you have to...
Great work, Alson. I was hoping to make it out there but wasn't able to. Looks like I missed some good conditions. Alex, thanks for the tip about the winds. Is...
There is neither at GMARS, but there is an NWS station in Landers: http://tinyurl.com/lboda You can pinpoint its exact location by entering the coordinates...
No, there is not a weather station there. We don't even have an internet connection there, so would not be able to communicate with a weather station if there...
Alex, Good question... After building the mosaic from 8 images. I levelized the brightness and saturation across the mosaic. Then I boosted the saturation by...
Hi all, I have a few things to sell and I just thought I'd give you all first crack at 'em. If you're interested in any of these, please contact me off list. I...
NGC 7331 (GMARS): http://webpages.charter.net/alsonwongweb/ngc73311.htm From Nightfall: IC 1848/1805: http://webpages.charter.net/alsonwongweb/newpage13.htm ...
Hi all, Here are links to some of my imaging efforts at Nightfall over the weekend of 10/19-10/22. They aren't the deepest or best images and I still have some...