Would greatly appreciate any insight regarding this gremlin in my image. http://personalpages.tds.net/~mfleenor/st10/m81_150min-Irblock.jpg This is 15 x 600sec...
We had a few breaks in the clouds a week or so ago here in England so I was able to grab enough data for this image of M81. This object is a bear to process, I...
Can anyone tell me what Ha filter is best to use at F16, and F1.9? I can get a 13Nm Ha filter, but its only suitable for ratios between F3 and F6. thanks...Jim...
Hi Ron, I downloaded your ccd calc a few months ago and it had been working great until last night. I'm getting the following error run-time error '62': input...
Hi folks, This is an image of NGC2207 I took last week with the 8"LX200 and SXV- H9. 240min of luminence seems to be the ticket in my local light pollution...
Hi, Finally think I was able to get a better image from my old data: <http:/groups.yahoo.com.group/ccdnewastro/files/M82_RN.jpg> Tried to bring out more of the...
Not sure if from the following images and this information one might be able to give me some insight on to why my images are not right and the stars are not...
(Here's a repeat of the earlier message, but with an easier address to access the images.) Having waited for clear skies for about a month, I recently had a ...
This is a cross post from the Bisque newsgroup: I have used TheSky with an LX200 and a AP400. In both cases the white curser denoting where the telescope was ...
T7 is now magnitude 7.4 but the moon provides stiff competition. I imaged T7 with a 57%-illuminated moon just 37 degrees away last night. Images at ...
Hi All, I have just istalled a mirror lock on my 10" STC. In previous post, someone was saying that first you lock the mirror, then focus and at the end ones...
Richard & Dennis These are interesting real world comparisons. Thanks for posting them. Richard - since you have both, what prompts you to choose one over the...
I finally had an opportunity to get back out and image as well as process. Its been all work and no play lately. NGC 7331 is from the "forgotten files". This...
"Fitful young star sputters to maturity in Rosette Nebula NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY NEWS RELEASE Posted: January 29, 2004 A duo of Chinese and...
Eighth straight nite of total cloud cover---I assume there are still stars up there. Hope things are more transparent at Hidden Loft. How is the progress...
I while back I started a thread after finding that separate guiding with a C11 was limiting my exposures to less than 5 minutes due to image movement. The axis...
Hello Just getting started taking color pic's and was wondering, when combinung the LRGB, should you combine each color and lum. using the raw image and then...
Greetings Roger: Thank you so much for the terrific responce , you have given me a lot to consider and that's good considering how long it's going to take to...
Put the Sky90 reducer on the FS-60c and hooked up my image train Optec IFW> DF-2 > SBIG 10Xe ( using the Crisp Adaptor to attach to the DF-2 eliminating the...
Having waited for clear skies for about a month, I recently had a chance to try my Tak 106fsq for the first time the other day. I've been wanting to attempt...
Greetings: I am putting my wish list together for a ccd setup. I was wondering if a seperate ccd for autoguiding or a combined two chip model would be better? ...
I finally accept that the processing is done to the images. After a snowy couple of days, had to use the hose and hot water to clear the satellite dish, I have...
a friend gave me an old,old,16X20 bellows, large format copy camera, , ive taken the lense off it, its a graphic-kowa,, 1:9/210,,,224414 , can someone help me...
John Guess you have seen this: http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/whatshot.htm. I certainly can see it does not have all the resolution of 10XME and maybe not the...
Well after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I finally got my flattener/reducer working on my Sky 90. What I ended up doing was to have Optec modify an old...
Hi everyone, I posted this the other day and I wasn't really happy with it so I reworked it from the combines and I think it has brought out more detail in the...
I captured three new images on 1/16/04 at Anza, CA. I used my Celestron C8 @ F/L 6.3 and it was fun to work at a little longer focal length than my FSQ. The...
