Lovely image, Jason. Keep 'em coming. I think it's fascinating the most critical limiting factor in what we can see or image isn't the aperture, optical design...
Hi all, While some of you may be checking out comets, T7Linear, F4Bradfield and Q4Neat, you may want to check of this one placed in Cygnus. currently at around...
I know there are a lot of Maxim users on the list - check out the web site - They just released 4.0. I upgraded this morning. First results are encouraging. I...
In a message dated 5/5/2004 8:51:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Pete, Nice job on the background. The core looks burned on my monitor. Maybe this needs they...
I upgraded on Monday, Pete. Great new stuff in V4. I also just opened the box for a new CCD camera -- an SBIG ST-2000XM. No, this doesn't mean I'm not getting...
I picked it up the other day. It's actually a cd with html document on it. There's some good information in it, but I find the stuff I'm finding on the web to...
Here is my first attempt at a H-Alpha mosaic with my STL-11000M and AP Traveler and 10nm H-Alpha filter. It only consists of two panes but probably larger...
In a message dated 5/6/2004 12:42:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ray@... ... Ray, Fabulous shot, and thanks for posting the various sizes. I am constantly...
Hi Phil, Thanks! 1. I used MaximDL to collect the dark frames (9x30mins) and my Sigma program to combine them. 2. I also used MaximDL to collect 25 flat frames...
Hi All - I teach an astronomy lab at Sac City College and am in a bit of a bind regarding imaging. I'm hoping for some help from a kind hearted member of this...
Ray, Great image - the scale of this image reminds me of Barnard's images from his famous Milky Way Atlas. Of course, you get much more out of modern...
Here's a modest M51 from the backyard on 5/9/2004. http://fototime.com/11366F233FDD1D5/orig.jpg Its 7 x 5 minutes w/ the st7e w/ the fsq106 at f5. It would...
I'm really amazed by what can be captured from the backyard. This image is one of the better.. recently I did m81 from the backyard and from montebello.. the...
Very cool, Phil. Was that a single 4m exposure or shorter ones combined? Cheers, Paul ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! -...
In a message dated 5/14/2004 12:43:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Paul, Thanks. Focus could have been (a lot) better. That was a single 4 minute exposure. ...
Grabbed a few photons on Saturday night of M51: http://www.santangeli.net/m51.jpg 2hrs lum, 40 minutes r, g, b. Not sure about the color balance. Pete...
Hey, that's really good, Pete. It's the best image I think you've done. What are the details? The black setpoint seems perhaps a tad high, you might be...
Hi Pete, That's a nice image! However, I think you could be missing out on some fainter details because the histogram of your image seems cut off on the left...
Good call :-) That's exactly my problem. Shot from downtown Los Gatos. Pete _____ From: Ray Gralak [mailto:ray@...] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 9:53 AM ...
Here's a ngc7000 from the wee hours of the morning... http://fototime.com/F2E7A367FD70B4D/orig.jpg transparancy probably wasnt as good as it could be, and...
Thats better. I'm no expert on this, but usually when I have slightly light-polluted image -- e.g. grey sky, I just leave it. I prefer some sky color to...