It's nice to have another FREE planetarium software for the Mac! Many of our club members use and rave about CDC, probably because it's got power, and it's...
I finally got a chance to take some pictures tonight using a PC164C- EX super low light, high resolution monochrome video camera. Keith's AstroImager showed...
The seeing was good, not great. This is on a 16" Lightbridge. No tracking mount, just an Alt-Az Dobsonian. A Nagler 5 31mm eyepiece (Terminagler) was used. No...
Would be nice to see some of the sharpest frames averaged rather than added - looks like nice resolution in the Trapezium, perhaps the E and F stars were...
Nope, that was my fault. I had M45 on my mind and thought it was a magnified image of that. I didn't recognize it as M42. I've never tried to grab that with my...
<http://www.davidillig.com/ast-eclipse080220.shtml> Mostly cloudy weather had been predicted, but I prepared my 'scope (Questar Duplex) and camera (Canon 40D)...
Hi David; Nice shot. I lucked out and we had low turbulence and clear skies for the entire 2.8 hour event here in Calgary. So I recorded the whole thing (well...
Nicely done David and Milton. My effort isn't as good but I'll share it, with a little explanation. We hosted a public outreach at one of our high schools in...
Very nice photo David! As a visual astronomer, next eclipse, I will prepare a series of eclipse sketches. This year I was busy volunteering at our science ...
Did everybody catch Alan Friedman's Astronomy Picture of the day on Feb 8th? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080208.html Nice shot Alan. That must be from...
Alan is outside getting a superb APOD on February 8 from Buffalo %$*#!! New York! I've been in Buffalo in the winter. If you ain't made of the right...
Hey, we have it tough in California too. It may by 75F at home but the dark sky site I go to is up in the mountains and it can get cold up there. Maybe even...
I'm no girly man, but I am getting wimpier each year. The nice thing about Buffalo is that on most of those (very infrequent) frigid clear winter nights the...
Hi Duane - Thanks for the nice press! Yes this was taken with the DMK41BF02. I have a bit of good video saved up for the end of winter clouds. best, Alan...
sorry, make that DMK21AF02. I'm thinking of getting a vanity license plate with my camera model. Somehow I managed to memorize it. I haven't been able to...
Equinox Image 1.7.2 is now available. This is a free update for all registered users of Equinox Image. There is no separate update installer so you need to...
Hi all, About two years ago, I began a website at www.macastronomy.com, but never really developed it beyond an "under construction" phase. Well, I finally...
Looks good, Ralph. I remember a post from you sometime, somewhere about the Frankenscope, but what's the story behind the Popescope? ... Peter Tattersall ...
Windoze users (I use both) try this: Right click in a text area of the page, select "Encoding" from the drop down menu, then select "Western European...
Hi Ralph, Nicely done. I like the look and it's easy to use. Love the observatory name! You need a link to here under the forums though :) You're inspiring me...
Nice work Ralph - congratulations! That looks like one of Paolo Lazzarotti's scopes posing with you on your homepage - had I heard that you ordered one of...
Hi all, I appreciate the messages I have received, both here on the forum, and by email. Some of you asked questions and had comments - let me take a moment...
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