This am I got out to get some shots of saturn and the moon. These were taken under poor seeing with a 9.25 scope that was "boiling" horribly as I didn't have...
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I've uploaded the specifications for the Sony ICX098BQ CCD chip. Included in the specifications are the number of pixels, pixel size and the relative spectral...
I'm new to this group and an absolute novice to imaging. I have done some photography. Mostly short exposure prime focus. I have an 8"sct and an 80mm...
Meade deep sky imager appears to be a great way to get into astrophotography at a fraction of the cost of some CCDs. The deepsky imager is definitely superior...
... wrote: I thought the meade was going for 299$. The neximage ... http://www.telescopes.com/products/Meade_Deep_Sky_Imager_DSI_31017.ht ml I had thought so...
I went back to check that link and discovered my mistake. The Meade DSI sells for $299. The "Savings" is listed $149. I'll chalk that up to wishfull thinking....
While waiting for more interchange to begin on this group, members might be interested in knowing there is some discussion on the SCT Yahoo group. Rick Jordan...
Shutan Camera in Illinois is hosting an Astro Expo Sunday December 5th. One of the seminars available is a presentation by Meade of their Deep Sky Imager....
The camera doesn't come with software to allow this. There is a free software package called guidedog that allows autoguiding to be done with long-exposure...
Well Fed-Ex rolled in yesterday and brought my imager and.... Clouds! Well I guess I had alot to do for Turkery Day anyways... Will post images when weather...
Well here is my question. I known that the documentation says that Neximage will work under WIndows 98 SE. Well prior to installing this on the computer in...
Yes, I have experienced the same thing. I have three computers and two of them run XP, so I haven't had an issue with running the software. But, my one...
Chuck what you say is true and I am sure that they OEM this from someplace else. However, I develop software for a living and one of the main things I have to...
Hello Chuck, If you are running your screen at 800 by 600 pixels go to the control panel and click display and then go to settings. Change the setting to 1024...
Hi all, There is a special "small" version of RegiStax available at the RegiStax website (download area). kind regards Cor Berrevoets RegiStax Image processing...
Hello, I have posted some of my first attempts at using the neximager. These were taken a while ago, but I am just getting around to posting them. I find that...
Hi Chuck, Saturn appears to have some artifact compared to the lunar images but overall very nice images, particularly with first time out experience. You are...
I get great images of the Moon but am having trouble resolving Jupiter into anything other than a big white dot! (same issue with Saturn, just 'bright and...
Sounds like the exposure is too long. I find that at prime focus on my C925 Jupiter only needs about 1/100 sec. Try setting the exposure time back and see...
Hi, why do you want to autoguide? The camera is not used in long exposure mode. The avis you take can be manually guided as registax compensates for alignement...
In the ToUCAM forum, there are people using ToUCAM doing autoguiding (GuideDog, etc.) using a bright star as the target. IMHO, AutoGuiding requires fast...
And in order to get a fast/accurate result from GuideDog or K3CCD for autoguiding with NexImage, you might want to check out the GPINT parallel port interface...