Interesting thought and one that might not have been discussed here but what difference does a graphics card make in image quality? I know there has been some...
Hi Mike, I like the ATI Radeon series cards... the 9600 Pro has 400 Mhz DACs and is more than what you would ever need for 2D image processing and can be found...
We had a good night at Fremont Peak Saturday. I was able to get two images. http://www.pt-photos.com/ngc6888.htm http://www.pt-photos.com/m51.htm Thanks for...
here is the first one I got http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/antares_pentax200_6303_HaGB_page.htm I am not sure if the second target is any good or not. more...
... From: Philip Terzian To: Imaging TAC ; James Turley ; Richard Crisp ; Rob Griffin ; June Moore ; Jeff Crilly Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 12:31 PM Subject:...
After muttering to myself about DSLR's, and the fact that I have a thwack of Nikon lenses sitting around, I found out today that there are adapters availble...
Pete, Recent news about the Canon 20Da camera: THE SKY’S THE LIMIT WITH THE NEW CANON EOS 20Da DIGITAL SLR Newest Canon Digital SLR Helps Address The Needs...
Unfortunately, way over my budget :-( Second choices? Pete ... Enthusiasts ... proven performers on this planet, Canon U.S.A. Inc. is reaching for the stars...
Pete Do you know that hutech modifies and/or sells canons with a couple of options for the filter?? http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/canon/ ... Phil...
That looks really appealing actually. Does anyone on the list have one? I'd be curious how "out" the camera is when you use the type I filter and no front...
Pete, Both Jeff Crilly and I have (bravely?) removed the filters from our Canon DSLR cameras in order to improve their sensitivity at H-alpha. You can see my...
For me it's all about "I want a new camera to take pictures of the kids" combining with "hey... I could use it for astronomy!". Probably strictly for wide...
Hi All, We had a fine time at Fremont Peak last night. Conditions were ideal. Here is an emission line image of the Network Nebula that I worked on. Total of...
woo hoo, do you have to plug that thing in at night to recharge it, Phil? Talk about an electric nebula, zowie! looks very hot. rdc ... From: Philip Terzian ...
(Pardon the cross-post from TAC) I spent most of the evening shooting Deep Impact from Montebello. I shot a series of about 50 3 minute images, binned 2x2 with...
Pete, totally awesome set of images. Well done, sir, exceedingly well done. Dramatically shows the brightening of the nucleus. Cheers, Jim ... though!) ... ...
Though not as specatular as Pete's collection of images, I too was able to record the brightening of the comets nucleus shortly after impact. Tempel was far...
Hi All, Richard Crisp and I spent Thursday night imaging at Fremont Peak. Conditions were very good and we had a great time. I ended up with this 4.5 hour...
This is from my recent outings at Fremont Peak. I get maybe four hours sky time from astronomical dark until this one disappears into the hills. I managed to...
AWESOME DUDE! You did it magnificently! I see that you finally adopted the CFHT palette for this bad-boy. In my opinion that palette looks better for the Veil;...
In a message dated 7/10/2005 12:17:38 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rdcrisp@... writes: http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m20_ap180_6303_hao3b_page.htm ...
On Friday night while John Gleason and I were battling rapidly deteriorating weather conditions on Fremont Peak, I managed to snag 5 x 20 minutes of [SII] and...
this is another from Thursday night at Fremont Peak when Phil Terzian was up there. This was shot at the end of the session: was 2 x 20 minutes racing the ...
I really like this one Richard! The palette is sweet. A nice cross between "showing maximum detail" and "looks somewhat familiar". Shingletown was a great...
... and "looks somewhat familiar". Thanks Pete. I picked the palette to both select two dominant emission lines and to still pick up the broadband blue...