I like 'em! Good work, Pete. Cheers, Paul ... ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ...
Hi Pete, Nice work on your images! BTW, I think the weird colors around the perimeter of that one image could be caused by the image alignment process which...
I am selling one of my AP1200 GTO mounts and my AP155/EDFS with 2.7 inch focuser. If you are interested in the 1200 mount please take a look at this page: ...
Nice stuff Ray, I wish I had the money and needed them both. A guy can't have too many nice mounts and scopes :-) Phil Terzian: here's a chance to get a real...
Hi All, Been working on this project for the past few nights from my side yard. Street lights, trees, etc restricted me to a couple of hours per night of...
Philip, Your techniques and final results never fail to amaze me! Paul H. Guttman, M.D. Space Science for Schools, a 501(C)(3) Nevada based Non-profit...
In case anyone's interested AIC 2005 was announced today. I heard from Steve Mandel that the room this year will be much larger. Some of the best imagers in...
It must be nice to have dark skies and equipment to take a broadband image of IC5067 like this: http://www.rc-astro.com/nebulae/ic5067.htm Hey Richard, do you...
Ray, Every time I see an image like this I find myself thinking, "Should I throw in the towel...or should I take a loan and get busy?" Phil Ray Gralak...
Greetings Folks. One of the beta-testers of my CFWHM plug-in recommended that I announce it on this list, as there may be some interest. I hope this is an OK...
Folks, I'd like to announce the availability of a new version 1.1.0 of CFWHM plug-in for CCDSoft. CFWHM provides a real-time display and plots of important...
9:08 PM Wednesday Seeing is a bit soft here tonight. Some pretty big guiding corrections compared to last night. PT [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hi All, Just finished a five night effort on this very dim nebula. The H-alpha was reasonable, but the sulfur was faint and the OIII was almost non-existent. ...
That is quite spectacular, Phil. This may be heresy but seeing these great pics you guys are taking is making me jaded for visual observing. ... Phil Chambers...
Thanks Phil. Finally got that mount working perfectly (thanks for the grease recommendation). I was getting pretty frustrated there for a while. I like visual...
... recommendation). I was getting pretty frustrated there for a while. ... I can see. The dim objects are just not visible, or are just little smudges. I...
In a message dated 8/28/2005 2:15:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, pterzian@... writes: Finally got that mount working perfectly (thanks for the grease ...
I used LubriMatic white lithium grease (Kragen auto parts) with a dropping point of 393F. I removed all the thrust bearings and cleaned them by soaking in...
Whoa! Totally cool. 8 hours of exposure time!!!? A serious project, indeed. Have been looking through your images. Really like the H-alpha shot of the...