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All, Has anyone used this focuser on the 106? Tech support said there's not enough focus travel forward for it to work with my SBIG and color wheel. He said...
Hi David, There is a way to achieve reliable autofocusing for the FSQ-106 without consuming any back focus! This is done by using a RoboFocus attached to the ...
After a needed vacation, I finally got out again on a clear night and was able to capture the much imaged trio in Leo: http://www.ricksastro.com/SXV_H9.htm ...
Hey Rick, Doesn't look like the vacation dulled your skills. Excellent image. The background's a bit dark for me but that could be my monitor. Steve ... From:...
Hi Elliott, The data is there in the core...it just needs some processing to bring it out. (longer exposures would have been helpful..you would get more data...
Steve, Thanks for the comments! I've been experimenting lately with going to a darker background (still not pegged in the black)...it's more for presentation...
The FSQ is designed to have the flattest possible field, and a very large flat field at that, and the short back focus is one result of those choices. There...
Very nice - excellent detail. Seems maybe a bit red to my eye, however. I guess that means there's no lack of red with this chip, eh? <g> Ron Wodaski author of...
Ron/Daniel, Is it possible to program CCDSoft to take exposures at specified times? For example, let's say I am interested in exposures at 00:00, 00:01, 00:02,...
You could write a script to take a single exposure, then schedule the script using the normal Windows task scheduler (accessible in Control Panel) or using the...
If I wanted to do that, I would write a Visual Basic program that watches the time, and carries out the exposures at the times input by the user. Also, I'm not...
... and ... hi Rick, Looks like another knotch on the scoreboard of great shots you are taking with your setup. A great image with good framing and ...
Hi Ron, I am planning to image the Mercury transit in May. The transit being almost 5.5 hours in duration, I am not very keen in having to sit under the sun...
Anthony, If you're not into scriping manually, Software Bisque have a small application called "orchestrate" which is perfect for this type of scenario - and...
Howdy Group, My first image since last October. I almost forgot how to run everything. Bad weather, wind, snow, more wind, have all contributed to my lack of...
Hi All, This is still a work in progress, I have to get rid of the blooms and gradients and do a LRGB combine yet. However I really liked the mono version of...
Does anyone know where you can find the drivers to control a Tak scope via TheSky? Or, if can you use it for other programs too? Thanks, Matt Russell...
Richard Lawler wrote a driver, and Software Bisque is working on a fancier driver that supports a larger set of the Tak features in the Temma goto. ...
Steve Actually, I revisited this image tonight. You were right...somewhere in the "curving" I lost too much of the bottom end. I reverted back to a version...
Paul, Thanks for the lead ... I will certainly look into it. If it generates script code, it will also be educational. I have done script programming (Unix and...
Hi Anthony, Take a look at my Sequencer program at http://www.hiddenloft.darkhorizons.org/sequencer/sequencer.htm Note specifically the planet mode toward the...
Hi John, Thank you for the reply and link. I will certainly check it out very shortly. I can live with a specific delay between exposures, in lieu of exposures...
Hi, I updated Sequencer to version 1.70 to remove the Orchestrate dependency. This was made possible by the latest version of TheSky 5.00.100 having the ...
Thanks Ron, Basically without getting too technical (although I see I still have to do that, so I'll continue in the book), as I was taking the images and...
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