... focusing ... Yes, autodark was on. ... average 3 or ... and ... The seeing was moderate and there was ample light pollution and moon glow. Nonetheless,...
Richard, Carefully <g> No actually I use a 237a. I got rid of my STV, a very nice person bought it from me. I went to a 237a that way I could have the...
Ron, What is the "scrubber" program/plug-in you are referring to. I don't see it on your web site. I usually a "sucker" for new toys. <g> Don Waid ... From:...
I shot some images the other night, using CCDops v.5, saving the images as TIFF files on my old G3 laptop. I also saved the images as FITS files for later ...
You wouldn't reset the graph during a focusing run. For one thing, as you get close to focus, the numbers tend to jump around for everything (FWHM, sharpness,...
... That's odd, I transfer those file types between both platforms all the time with no problems. What type of utility were you using to open them? Did you try...
It would appear that there isn't a reference to the pixel scrubber on the downloads page, or anywhere else on my site. You can download it from here: ...
Has anyone used this camera or know anything about it. I have the chance to buy one. The ccd active area is 7.7mm x7.7mm. 82% greater than st7.pictor 416 or...
I switched over to CCDsoft from CCDops in testing my new ST10XME. When I tried to image the program said no SBIG driver. How do I load the proper SBIB driver....
It was an early example of cleaning up hot and cold pixels; a later version of this code found its way into the Gradient Removal program as a bonus feature. ...
Sounds like you have a very old version of CCDSoft - go to: http://www.bisque.com/hotfixes to find the latest version. Ron Wodaski The New CCD Astronomy ...
Thanks Ron, It is a new ST10XME (came from SBIG a few weeks ago). I think the version is the latest, but I will check it. The users manual says Version 5 and...
Rick, Also run the "driverchecker" from SBIG to make sure all the drivers are there and in the right place. Incidentally, the software won't care if it's a...
Even if the sbig driver utility shows that all divers are current and present they still may not be properly installed so that they will work. Ccdops must be...
Ron, Wayne, Randy, All Thanks for the help and tips. I had already used CCDops and that's why I was curious about the apparent problem. I found 2 possible ...
Hi Ron This is the error I get with scrubber http://www.astroden.com/scrubber.jpg Michael Downing www.astroden.com <http://www.astroden.com/> _____ From:...
I've wanted to try this object for a while now and finaly gave it a crack at the weekend. The first night I took the colour and 2 hours of Ha which looked...
I had what seemed like the first clear night over the weekend in what seems like years. I took the opportunity to try my hand at M13. The image can be seen...
John, Very nice "3-D" look to the image..definitely looks like the opening of a cave! Randy Nulman http://www.nulman.darkhorizons.org ... a ... hours ... the ...
Hi Peter, The SXL8 is now rather dated but will still give good results. Things have changed a lot in CCDs and it would be considered rather insensitive by...
That error is occurring outside the built-in error checking, so it has no line number of special text to tell me where it is happening. That means it's going...
Another great STL FSQ image. I love it. Mike Cole ... -- Michael Cole UrbanImager Astrophotography website http://home.earthlink.net/~urbanimager/index.htm ...
Nice one, Morgan. The Crescent has a whole new look in that large a frame. John www.hiddenloft.darkhorizons.org ... From: kimw1234 [mailto:kimw1234@...]...
Rick, Hi, Have you found a solution allready? I have not read though the whole thread, so excuse me if this has allready been sugested. I ran into almost the...