Hi Serena, I'm using a Philips Toucam Pro model 740. I took the insides out and mounted it in a plastic work box I bought and Radio Shack, a local electronics...
Very nice job on both with lots of detail... Also shows that focus is not a problem for you :) buen cielo, Dan NM ... get ... fixed ... make ... planet ... ...
Cal! Good to see you here on the web again. Great images. I still have yet to get the nack of getting good planetary shots: you have mastered it!. ~johnb...
Two new images of a couple of favorite subjects... M-1 Crab Nebula http://www.regulusastro.com/regulus/photos/text/m1rgbcn212.html M-42 Orion Nebula ...
Thanks John. I couldn't get a decent planet image myself until I took off the expensive CCD camera and imaged through a $80.00 webcam. I wish now that I could...
One of the challenges I've set myself is to photograph a galaxy such as ngc 1566. This is a spiral galaxy about 8 arcmins in apparent diameter situated around...
... such ... magnitude ... the ... Hi Serena, Excellent image!! good detail in the spiral arms, I'd be very happy with your image. What software are you using...
Hi Janet, Thanks for your nice comment. Guess I'm comparing the image with one of a similar size and brightness galaxy in the SBIG advertisement in Feb S&T....
Finished processing this one today. The snow is coming down pretty hard, so hopefully this will remind people of the wonderful clear skies of New Hampshire...
Ah, Mr Bode should have looked more closely before he called it a nebula ;-) Very nice image. Good detail in the periphery. Incidentally, SkyChart III says...
Ahhhh Mr Bode would have been pleased. If he only had the availability of CCD equipment! Yep - I have been having a difficult time finding the "truth" as to...
Hi Dan, Ahhh hah! The secrets of CCD imaging being revealed. <kidding>. The luminance images were a combination of 5-minute integrations. I have troubles with...
For those who are interested in the snow and ice recently dumped on us in New England, I have uploaded a jpg shot of the observatory. Pretty unhappy looking....
That's a pretty "sad sack" looking observatory :-) Does the inside stay dry? I wish we had some of the moisture with the emphasis on "some". Spring is just...
We finally have clear weather so I took this image of M1. I decided to go back to color images for awhile but now know why I quit. Gradients from light...
OK John, you've got me tricked. Where is that photo of the snow laden observatory? I've looked through every album "of this group". Serena ... us ... Pretty...
Great shot of the Crab there Cal. Yes - understood about the issues surrounding color CCD imaging. I also have serious gradient problems especially in the...
Hello, I need astronomy movies(DVD, VIDEO, AVI etc.)in 3D staill. Does any one know where I can get/download astronomy and space movies? Especially in 3D? Kind...
Thanks Larry. I recently purchased a new monitor because the old monitor turned anything gray to a sickly purple color so processing images was difficult. I...
Well, these past few nights have been clear enough to allow for some quick imaging sessions. I should have been collimating a C-14 <sigh> but I didn't have the...
Hi John, do you see the same sort of star when you are observeing? The blooming I can understand but the little smear to the left of the star puzzels me Larry...
That is coma... a classic case of it. Newtonians will show that, especially with stars on the edge of the field and when using instruments so sensitive as...
Hi John. Your images got me interested in the problem with the newtonians. I checked one out in the club and it had the same coma. I'm told it is the clips...
Hi Larry, Clips can often produce very odd and unwanted image distortion in any telescope system, but the coma in Newtonians is not caused by the clips. If...
Hey John I really enjoy reading what you have to say . How else would I learn what others are doing and thinking? Larry [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hello Cal, Well I've now bought a Philips Toucam 740K. However when I try to load an .AVI file into Registax it says "cannot decompress first image" (or...