I am contemplating removing the IR and AA filter on my new Canon D40. It might be risky, but willing to go through with it. I found that Baader does it, but...
I did this w/ the 300D and 350XT cameras. On the 300D I removed the filter altogether. No glass anymore. On the 350XT I replaced the glass w/ a baader filter....
Seeing that it seems to be a little slow at the moment I was wondering whether you wanted to see an image I'm working on? Having a permanent observatory is...
great image ! but tells me that I should wait for better transperency to get out anything reasonable out of m82 it takes 2 hours for me to set up computer ...
Most excellent! Sounds like you'll be getting even more use out of your equipment, being able to get it up and running so quickly. Way to go, Darren....
Hi Pete, Thanks! I'm about 9 miles SSE of downtown San Jose. I basically have serious light pollution from north (from San Jose) to east (from some unknown...
Hi Alex, It may not be as bad as you think - I got the imaging time wrong :) It was really 18 * 300 min (ie 90 minutes total). According to the CSC it looks...
Hi Hans (and everybody else), Thanks for the comments. Given the noise in the color subs the quality of the luminance ones was a really pleasant surprise. I...
Thanks, Darren. I wish I had a private enough backyard and larger accessible horizon to make it worth making a permanent setup. I spend over half my time...
I personally would not use a guidescope with any kind of cat. I've had too many problems over the years with mirror flop and flexture that are problematic to...
Hi All, Finally had a good weekend for imaging. I shot NGC 2174, the Monkey Head nebula, with a modified Canon 350D and AP160 refractor. I'd been wanting to...
I think I figured out where my wobble is coming from - I think my vertical worm gear has a bump on it. I will look into replacing that. If I image more than...
Beautiful, Ray! And amazingly smooth for just three images. Did you use a smoothing routine like Noise Ninja? Steve ... (cropped and ... Monkey ... been ... ...
It's funny you say that because I don't keep track of the various steps I use to process each image either, which vary depending on the image. And I often...
Hi Steve, Nice image! You're getting great image quality out of the 350D - almost enough to make me want to butcher mine :) Is you image a crop, or scaled ...
Hi All, I've been trying to get a webcam to put into my 'observatory' just in case something goes wrong and I need to work out what's going on. I have a good...
Darren, How does it perform at night? Can you see any detail? I tried the webcam in my laptop and it was a real no go. Everything was just black. Michelle...
Hi Steve, That's a good color image you have there - the modded camera pulls in the Ha nicely. Here's my quick attempt from last December, only 40 mins of Ha...
Thanks, Darren. Yes, it's a pretty tight crop. The nebula is big, though, taking up about a third or more of the full frame of the 350D. I hope you give it a...
Very nice, John. Sure, more exposure time would reduce the noise and burn in the nebula a bit more, but you captured it admirably with just 40 minutes. Steve ...
Hi Michelle, The original CMOS webcam I used in near darkness showed nothing. With an unmodified Toucam (CCD) camera I can see a vague outline. To get anything...
Hi Steve, Very nice! A lot of DSLR images seem to get reduced, making it hard to assess the quality of the images. I'm even more impressed with your one now! I...
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