Richard's "APOD" picture is "Anacortes Photo Of the Day", which is not to be confused with the infinitely more prestigious "other" APOD (NASA's "Astronomy...
Nothing since late January. What are the plans? I'm getting to the point where I have to start making vacation plans... or risk not getting vacation at the...
Hi Everyone, The April 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope has an excellent article on processing webcam planetary images using Registax, written by the softwares...
Self Explanatory. Cmon guys, let those moths out.... ... Phil Chambers [ptchamb@...] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif. USA) ... Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:45:49...
Hi Everyone, Last night had some of the best seeing conditions in a long time, so I was busy imaging Jupiter & Saturn. Here is one of the Jupiter images; ...
Hey all, I'm considering trying to get out this evening and doing some planet capture with the webcam. What do people use to do the actual capture operation?...
I settled on amcap, Pete. You have to be very careful with filenames but it is the fastest capture program I have found. If it had a sequential naming system,...
In a message dated 3/8/04 12:24:00 AM !!!First Boot!!!, Hattonjasonp@... ... J, Great result. Lots of nice detail. I hope tonight is equally good. PT ...
Seeing was definitely good last night. I have a lot of images to process, but here is the first. Best 500 images out of my first run of 3400 stacked with...
I have said many times that I have plently of server space to host TAC, even for free. Unfortunately the will of a few people have shot down that idea many...
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Nice image, Pete. Lot of detail although the color is kinda funky. Cheers, Paul Sterngold ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search -...
... Nice result Pete, you've captured a lot of detail in the region trailing the Great Red Spot. What time was your image obtained? There is a lot of rapid...
... details, ... Hi Paul, Details of the setup are; Scope: C9.25 on a CI-700 Effective f-ratio = ~f35 (microfocusser+flip mirror+3x barlow) Camera: Toucam Pro...
Hi Jason Which IR filter are you using?? I just picked up one to experiment with. A "Hoya 90". ... Phil Chambers [ptchamb@...] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif....
I meant to add that your pics look great. Lots of detail in that IR image, including some that is not apparent in the visual one. I certainly see a lot of...
I've played around with a few ways of hooking things up. For this time, I used an NGF-S with DRO, with a 2"->1.25" adapter into an Orion shorty barlow. My...
I'm certainly not the expert here but it does make a huge difference (impirically). I agree that from a pure image processing point of view it does not make...
... with. ... It is an I-band filter, from the Schuler UBVRI photometric set. You can get details of the bandpass of each filter from www.astrovid.com Best...
Hi Pete, ... Having an electric focuser makes it a lot easier to get sharp focus. Also, it will slightly increase the EFL of an SCT which helps with planetary...