Stu, I took your image and played with it in Photoshop, some levels and noise reduction. It still is choppy but not bad for poor seeing, even with my amateur...
Sky and Telescope just reported that there is a new supernova going off in the whirlpool galaxy -M51. If it ever clears up it might interesting to see how many...
Hi Ron, I saw the sunspots. I attached my webcam and took the images. The only filter was the solar filter that I made from the AP Solar filter material. I...
Hi All, especially Registax Users, I have learned, thanks to Stu's question that Registax now has V-6.1. Who has used it? Do you like it? Do you recommend...
I'm going to give it another shot. I didn't like it because I couldn't figure out how to debayer and the help files were, well, nonexistent. I'm going to...
Mike Harms' idea of imaging a common object is a relly good one. Unfortunately he picked a bad seeing period, but the idea is great. We could all image a...
Lets hope it's clear this weekend... we can crank up the TKO. Jon ... From: mike.harms2000 <mike.harms2000@...> Subject: [mdasimaging] Supernova imaging...
We complain about poor or non-existent seeing, I just posted an image from Santa Fe, NM. Monday afternoon. The smoke from the Arizona fires rolled into town...
... Nice shot Robert. I'm posting an image of the supernova taken on Wed. night with an 80mm refractor. Exp. 12x30 seconds. Combined in MaximXl. M51 is in a...
I'm going to try my shot at the supernova tonight. It's been months since I've taken my scope out for deep sky imaging. What are the optimal settings for PHD...
For guiding with PHD, I usually go with 3-4 seconds or so. Depends to a degree on the sensitivity of your guide camera. 10 seconds is quite long in that the...
Hi Jim, I installed the new Registax version this morning and have tried running a few files through it. You must install ver 6.1 before installing the upgrade...
For both Registax 5.1 and 6, I do NOT see *.CR2 as a file type (DSLR raw). So what is going on? Folks can load DSLR raw files somehow in those versions? JonS ...
I shot this lunar image last night with my 200mm f2.8 lens ala Chris's "Casual Photography" article in the last Diablo Moonwatch. I shot 7 subs and stacked...
All, I am so sorry that I didn't show up on Tuesday night for the meeting and let people into the room. I just forgot. I wasn't busy, I just forgot. I am so...
Hi Ron et al. Ron and I went to the meeting Tuesday only to learn there was no meeting. However, that didn't stop us and we had a pleasant evening just...
