Justin, It looks like the Chinese are getting into CCD cameras now also. There is a company called QHY who have a giude camera with quite a decent sized CCD...
Much better! I was going to ask you if you were using a light pollution filter,but Mark beat me to it. He's absolutly right about not needing it. I image in a...
Hello, I am planning to buy a new laptop with Vista for my imaging sessions. Do you know if the following software will work with Vista: - MaximDL 4.57 -...
Hi Gordon, CCDStack actually does a very good job in converting our bayer images and color balance..etc. It's big problem is in working with many images. I...
Gordon, I should mention that I believe that CCDStack has the very best deconvolve program of all the different ones that I mentioned. It is the easiest to...
Not a problem. MaxIm DL runs fine with Vista. TheSky runs fine in Vista too. I have not hooked up my paramount ME to my Vista laptop yet but I am fair sure the...
Hi all, I have finished the color version of my lastest post of IC1805 in BW with the Ha and the FSQ/STL. This is the HaRGB version with 6x5min exposures for...
I recently switched to a Vista laptop. I updated all my software (MaxIM, TheSky etc) and those worked fine as do the SBIG drivers. FocusMax took a bit of...
I really want to stick to XP, just hard to find new laptop with XP! I will probably by the laptop, reformat the disk and install XP from my old disk. To:...
Hi Jean, With my M25C a converted image is 72mb...these add up pretty quickly. bud ... +0000Subject: [ccd-newastro] Re: Combining Images with Different ...
After using Vista for eight months and dealing with its little quirks, I have only ever received one piece of advice from the experts: "Go back to Windows XP...
My understanding of this subject is that roughly, in principle the focus time required to achieve a given s/n ratio is dependent on the F ratio and image scale...
One bit of advice I can offer is that not all new notebooks will allow the installation of XP. The exact cause wasn't found but it had to do with the SATA hard...
Yes, there's a myth involved here. But it's not quite what it seems. There are two ways to look at this: objective, and subjective. Objectively, the...
Mooie dagDear Group, just this early morning I imaged the conjunction between Jupiter and Venus..All this seen from Fullerton, California. enjoy! follow the...
Unfortunately, what Steve says is true. Much of the speciallized hardware that goes into a laptop does not have XP drivers available, only Vista. Unless...
I have not had a problem with the astronomical software per-se; PS CS3, MaximDSLR, Sky 6 etc etc. The issues arise with other programs. The task bar on the...
I found that my machine works perfectly fine except for the mess with the Canon 400D drivers not working well with Vista, all the software that uses that...
One of the problems with Vista is that the extra amount of resources it requires gives you very little in return. It has so much eye candy that gobbles up...
Hi guys, I couldn't resist. Sounds like Vista works really well as long as you don't want all the software and hardware to work correctly! I'm staying with XP...
Mooie dagDear Group I just posted one more photo I took this early morming..Jupiter & Venus a nice conjunction! Comments welcome! enjoy All the best Cor. ...
Hi folks, I am having no problems with Vista after figuring out the visual basic issue with FocusMax. All my other programs, CCDSoft, TheSky6, Tpoint, PEC,...
Marc, Very nice image! Nice detail, and nice color on the nebula. The only suggestion I can offer is that stars and star colors can be very difficult in HaRGB...