Hi Paul, Yes, that is a good summary of the situation. I didn't mean to imply the AP900 (or other mounts) couldn't auto guide through the serial port, it's...
Hi Iver, 1) Yes, the IB is open to everyone. We have posted it to the visual observing TAC list and often get a few non-imagers. (That was me, last year!) I...
... Thanks, Ray. Richard posted that to the SXV users list, and I found both the calculator, and the discussion below it, quite helpful. Are you aware of any...
... Then... ... swing! ... Urgh...can't...control...myself...much..longer... So...many...jokes... ARRRGGHH!! Iver, welcome to the group. Nice to see another...
Hi Ray, This is fantastic - thanks again! It puts some good, clear data and thinking behind a lot of what I had intuited, but in some cases had wrong. For ...
Hi Paul, I'm glad you found Jim's article useful. Good luck this weekend scouting for a location! Wish I had the time (and a large enough vehicle <G>) to...
Hi All: My name is Randy Parola and like Iver I live between Salinas and Monterey in relatively dark skies. I have a Orion 80 ED piggybacked on a LX200GPS 12"...
Hi Randy. Jeff here. If access is good (i.e. decent road - not muddy & rutty), and the "setup area" is relatively flat, then it sounds promising. Usually when...
Hi Jeff: Road is good as it is passable in all weather. There are a few ruts and dips but those are very minor. There is a relatively flat area that is acres...
Hi All, I was experimenting tonight with a B&W rendition of the M42 and Running Man nebulae. The M42 was imaged using H-alpha data. Some long exposures (40...
I like it a lot, Phil! Very nice. The only tipoff is that the RM shot is noisier while the M42 shot is smoother. Well done, that must have taken quite a bit...
HI Paul, I used some Noise Ninja on the Running Man side and added a higher res image (per Paul Mortfields's request). You can get to it by clicking on the...
Ray, That is a good read. The guy certainly took an intelligent look at the whole autoguidng issue. I've always heard that you should not "chase the seeing"...
Pretty darn good! ... Running Man nebulae. ... minutes) to bring out the faint nebulosity and some short (2 minutes), to resolve the Trapezium region. ... so I...
It looks like we screwed up. The dates we chose for the IB are after new moon, which means we will lose some part of the early to mid evening. Here's the ...
Ouch, that's difficult... I'll actually be up in the Bay Area (San Francisco and San Jose) the week of March 20th - 24th, for the Game Developer's Conference....
... If you absolutely, positively can't do these "new" dates, then let's stick with the old. In that case, I might go up a day earlier - Wed, 29-Mar - to...
Sterngold wrote: If you absolutely, positively can't do these "new" dates, then let's stick with the old. In that case, I might go up a day earlier - Wed,...
... Your attendance is not optional. We will stick with the original dates. Cheers, Paul S. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
Much cheaper than an equivalent RC and very fast f-ratio <grin> http://www.dreamscopes.com/pages/projects-04/newt-astro-list.htm -Ray Gralak Author of PEMPro,...
... That's exactly why I just built my own 10" f/4.48 coma-corrected Newt. Bang for the buck is excellent (total cost including mirrors, spider, mirror mount,...
Hi Paul, Yea, but 10" is tiny these days! <G> The average serious scope is about 20" now a days. And I hear that the current crop of imagers want 24" or...
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