Jeff, Not recomended - no compressed air can stuff! That being said I do it sometimes, no problems yet. The chip is actually protected by the glass filter in...
Jeff, The first thing to try is the technique listed in your manual: lock the mirror up as you said, and use a squeeze bulb to use puff air (like a Rocket...
Hey Guys, Vince just joined us. Lets say hello to Vince, <Group> Hello Vince! Now if you'd just accept my friend request on MySpace. Well hope to see some...
Guru? I'm not so sure about that! Thanks Bob. given the conditions I was fairly happy with the way the cone turned out. Now i just have to get myself a...
Hmmmmm........I'm still not so sure that we do exist. We could just be alive in a moment of time in some alien beings mind as a bemused...passive....musing -...
Bob's referring to a past discussion here on AISIG. I, in order to figure out who the experts are here that could be tapped for AISIG presentations, made a...
Well, Im definately not an expert by any means, I'm still in the steep beginners learning curve. For every decent image I get, I also get about 5 hours worth...
Ha! naw, I quit taking steriods yesterday. Thanks for the Kudos. I was stoked about the M64 since that Piece of Schmidt has been giving me headaches for over...
I just posted a first installement of a project I imagine may take over 10 years to complete. I'll be imaging M1 every 6 months to look for changes in the jets...
Very interesting project. It appears that you definitely caught movement in just the first 6 months. It should be possible to try to calculate speed of the...
Thanks Mark, I think we'll just have to wait and see. I have a good feeling about the way the central core looks. I however doubt the changes in the filaments...
I'm not sure that the rotation you see in the filaments isn't real. I wondered if it was an artifact as well, but the surrounding stars seem to match. Since...
Dave, Looks to me like you've captured the Polar Jet coming off the Pulsar. . .check out this page: http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m001_hst.html If this...
Yeah, I was looking at the areas you pointed out again. It does look like the filaments are moving, but I'm still skeptical. Jeff L. has offered to take the...
Reminds me of the Christmas card my aunt gave me. It has Santa and his reindeer with the sleigh sitting on top of an out-house. and Santa's saying to the deer,...
Yeah i know, I come down pretty hard on the old SCT, but man, after be accustomed to using a refractor, the POS just throws all sorts of curveballs while...
I hear you on the mirror scopes. Right after I got my Takahashi I said never again a mirror scope, the images just don't hold a candle to a great Apo...
Err. . .too slow. . .bad joke dorked up by a typo. . . :) -J _____ From: SDAA_AISIG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SDAA_AISIG@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff...
That won't be anywhere near as fun as waiting another 6 months and analyzing the next shot ourselves! Mark ... like the filaments are ... images and register...
I can see that the FSQ-106 refractors can give nice round stars across a large field but how small are the stars compared to a reflector of the same focal...
I guess that would depend on how large the CO is. I would tend to think that comparing like aperature and FL scopes, the unobstructed refractor would give you...