There will be a rare opportunity to image Mercury at the end of this month (the last few days of April). This is probably the toughest planetary target (in our...
Well, I took the group's advice and did away with Vista in my brand new laptop, installing XP, and I am now a very happy camper. Haven't tested the guiding of...
I am hoping a Meade color webcam I received yesterday and an OAG #777 tube will help me get better pictures. That's probably why we had bad weather yesterday....
I know it sounds like the obvious thing to do, but I try to set up new equipment and test it out during the daytime or on full moon nights. When I want to go...
I hear you, Michelle. Yup, tested cameras and associated software in the house. PHD seems to be communicating with my mount, but won't know for sure until I...
I am thinking about an upgrade, but not sure which way to do it, and I would like some input. I have Meade LX200GPS 12" F/10, Canon 40D with 150-500mm F/4...
Sounds like you need to make some decisions on what kind of deep sky imaging you want to do. Ultimately the 12 inch scope with a focal reducer is a killer...
Well, after more than 2 months without deep sky imaging -- and lots of whining, I ran my Vista-free laptop through its paces, using Stark Labs PHD guiding....
Thanks, Ray. Hopefully the computer gods will be kind and the laptop will last a good long time. Amazing how the seemingly most simplist things can grind...
Glad to hear you laptop is running again! Nice image. I get a hint of dust cloud in the image pretty much everywhere except the vey button, the same way as you...
Hi Darren I pushed the processing on this quite a bit, so any suggestion of dust cloud is probably a result of that......though my camera was pretty dusty when...
Nice one Jim, glad you got your issues sorted. I'm also imaging for the first time in months this weekend, now I'm moved in to my new apartment. Nothing as...
Hi Darren, after seeing your post last night, when I got to work I had a look at some of my images with my office computer and it would appear that I have a...
Hi Iver Well, there were more than a few nights I was squirming at the eyepiece wishing I were imaging. Especially missing out on the Cone and Rosette. But,...
Last week we had 3 nights that were reasonable enough to image from my house, but not good enough to go out to a dark site, so I decided to do a bit of a...
Got a SPC900NC and would like to mod it to use it for guiding. Does anyone know someone local (Bay Area) who knows how to do it? Yes I've been to Steve...
According to http://www.home.zonnet.nl/m.m.j.meijer/D_I_Y/spc900nc.htm this is a USB1.1 camera, although it's optics seem a bit better than the Tucam. That...
... The notification list as I read it says "Mak-Cass" as an option with no mention of size. Anyone see a second listing? Are they still making the 10"? Maybe...
Hi Drew, I remember asking Roland if he was going to make one but I don't remember if I signed up on any Mak Cass list or not. I will have to ask AP. -Ray...
Here's M8/M20 taken from the Cupertino hills above Stevens Creek Reservior Saturday night. This was the first night out with the new 80ED. I was hoping to use...
So here is my try at the "Mercury Nebula" as it were: http://www.ancientstarlight.com/Mercury.html This was taken at a mean time of 2000h when the Alt was 18...
Does anyone know if bluetop Optimas can be found in or around the Mountain View/ Sunnyvale area? Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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