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Greetings, 'Just a quick note to let people know that ScopeDriver 3.0 was released today (I'm its author). It's at <http://www.ScopeDriver.com>. It's a free...
Stephen E. Hutson
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Nov 3, 2006
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Is there a Macintosh solution for de-rotating a series of images before stacking? My polar alignment is close enough that one-minute subs are fine, but a stack...
Jeff Phillips
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Nov 3, 2006
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... I believe that Nebulosity can do what you want. <http://www.stark-labs.com/nebulosity.html> The manual says "To align and combine images using alt-az...
David Illig
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Nov 4, 2006
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1378
Sounds like just what I was looking for. Thanks David....
Jeff Phillips
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Nov 4, 2006
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1379
I recently got my 15" MacBook Pro C2D/Bells/Whistles and also an Imaging Source DMK21BF04 monochrome FW webcam*. In response to a call that Darryl Robertson,...
David Illig
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Nov 6, 2006
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Nice shot. Love the stars and nebula detail (nice wide field of view on that chip!) Great job. Duane...
Duane
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Duane, Thanks. By the way, I'm recovering from an bouncing e-mail mess from the weekend, it's my first one. Lost a-lot of msg's. Just happened to see Duane's...
Paul Gaylord
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Nov 7, 2006
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Hi all. Does anyone know of (preferably free) Mac fonts that contain astronomical symbols like those found in farmers' almanacs?...
betapict
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Nov 7, 2006
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1383
Not free, but good: http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=242735...
Jeff Phillips
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What symbols are you looking for? Does it have to be a font or would you like a vector graphic? Are you using them for commercial stuff? The reason I'm asking...
Duane
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Nov 9, 2006
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... I found those and they're exellent, but I've never actually purchased fonts before. Is the price reasonable?...
betapict
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Nov 9, 2006
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... Sadly, I don't know the difference. :-) I never have understood the physics of fonts and such things. Ideally, I'd like something that I could also use in...
betapict
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Nov 9, 2006
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I think so. Linotype is top-quality. Jeff Phillips imjeffp@... http://imjeffp.com...
Jeff Phillips
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Nov 9, 2006
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... If you are using a recent version of Mac OS X these symbols are already on your Mac. Go to the International Preference Pane and click the "Input Menu"...
David Illig
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Nov 9, 2006
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... [snipped for clarity] That's a great tip. I wasn't aware of this. Some of the ones I need aren't there but most are....
betapict
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Okay, this was nothing fancy, but it worked fairly well... I got frustrated trying to web cam this, so I just held my dslr up to the eyepiece (eyepiece ...
Duane
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Nov 9, 2006
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Nice shot Duane, I couldn't get my planetcam to focus in the PST that I have (always test things first, oh well). In H-alpha, here in Chicago, the transit...
Jeff Terry
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Nov 9, 2006
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Duane, Nice shot! Thanks for sharing! Paul...
Paul Gaylord
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Nov 10, 2006
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Curiosity got the better of me so I hunted this observatory down. Rod If you have Google Earth installed, you can double-click on the attached Placemark file...
Rodney Kennedy
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Nov 10, 2006
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Yea, we had a PST at our observing outreach and that flair was pretty nice. On the opposite side of the sun was a pair of sunspots which had an arc which was...
Duane
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Hi all, This is something of a followup question to a question I posted about a month ago about running win, and win astro apps on a MacTel. My plan is to run...
Ian Bacon
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Nov 12, 2006
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I see a possible flaw in this. Boot Camp, Apple's method of booting into Windows only support Win XP Service Pack 2 at the moment, so it's out. Parallels will...
Jeff Phillips
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Nov 12, 2006
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I agree with Jeff. Use XP and Bootcamp. I highly recommend formating fat32 if you can function on less than 32GB of drive space for Windows. This will allow...
Duane
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Nov 13, 2006
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Just incase some of you don't know about this application I have provided the links below. Worth checking out. ImageJ homepage: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ ...
Bob Piatek
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Nov 23, 2006
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Hi All, For those in the US, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving! For your amusement, here's an image of M42 that I took on 18 Nov, this is the first time that...
Paul Gaylord
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Nov 23, 2006
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Paul, Great picture! You had quite a long total exposure time so you captured quite a lot of detail in spite of the fog you were enduring. Makes for a...
Bob Piatek
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Nov 24, 2006
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Bob, Thanks for the advice, I downloaded and looked at Chris's presentation. Hopefully I got something out of it. Anyway, per your suggestion, I went back to a...
Paul Gaylord
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Nov 24, 2006
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I like it a lot better. Maybe just my personal preference but it looks more stunning. The reds are deeper and the blues intensify the greyish cloud regions a...
Bob Piatek
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Nov 24, 2006
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Hi Folks; I just though I'd let you know that version 3.01.00 of Astro IIDC is now available from the Astro IIDC Web site at: ...
Milton Aupperle
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Nov 30, 2006
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Equinox 6.2.0 is now available. This is a free update for all registered users. You can get information and download links from the new Microprojects web site:...
Darryl Robertson
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Dec 1, 2006
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