Luis "The Turtle" Esteves took these with a Toucam pro and his C9.25 down in Hollywood Florida. http://astroturtle.com/imaging/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=0 ...
What is the "best" backspacing for a C11 for imaging? (Measured from the back of the OTA with all the adapters unscrewed to the chip) I can come to focus at...
Has had an everlovin' update: http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com/ Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope...and... The Urban...
Come on 2080 fanciers...I need an image of your scope for my new SCT book! What do I mean by 2080? An 8-inch Meade fork-mount SCT with an AC powered clock...
... From: Rod Mollise [mailto:rmollise@...] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:56 PM To: 'Robert Piekiel' Subject: RE: Photos for your book HI Bob: They...
Seeing was good this evening. I was able to capture the rising STrZ storm "aka" the "Dragon". The storm is located around SYS III: 300. Contrast of this...
Hi All, Everyone who has read my "Celestron The Early Years" has the story of how Beloit College bought the first Celestron 22 and, at the same time, TEN C10s....
My wife and I have always planned on retiring to New Mexico and building an observatory, inter alia. Retirement is still years away but we'd like to begin by...
... Look around the Silver City area Les. Winters aren't too bad yet the elevation makes summers passable. Plenty of dark sky nearby and real estate hasn't...
Hi Les, You might want to try talking to these folks. I understand they are very helpful, though I have not used them myself. http://www.nmskies.com/webpage ...
Robert H. I wonder if I could get a prize for, most improved Street Sign image, (before and after images in my CVW2 album). I brought the C11 up from the...
I live in Belen, NM which is about 30 mins south of Albuquerque, NM. We are in a dry zone ie we don't get the storms that northern or southern parts of the...
Rod, I sent you an email about my 2080. Did you get it? Tim Nicholson Editor, NOVAC Newsletter Meade ETX80-AT Celestron Nexstar 102SLT Meade 2080 My Astronomy...
Cleon - I think your image would win, hands down! Thats quite a difference in the before & after. I am fascinated by your experiments, and honestly, a little...
Yep...tried a couple of times. I'm going to post it in the group as well...could I be going into your junk folder/spam folder? Rod Photographic Permission ...
Hi Rod, Got it this time. What do I do here - print it out, fill it in, sign it and mail it to you? Give me your address once more, I flushed it once more. ...
Robert H I agree, if you have an OTA that is seeing good when the seeing is good, I wouldn't rebuild it. Robert I think you should buy a used C11 on Ebay and...
It's true. Belen gets only 7.6 inches of rainfall per year, while Las Cruces gets a whopping 8.5 inches. Of course, Belen averages an extra inch of snow...
Robert H Tinkering in all the wrong places. If you noticed the one picture, ( in my CVW2 album ) of the OTAs concentric reflections, I was shimming the...
Hi Rod, I'll put it in the mail today. Thanks, Bob ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend,...
Morning Group! I'm having a brain freeze on a question I should be able to answer, and could use some help. Assumption: Focal Ratio = Focal Length / Objective...
Hi Gary- When you apply the mask, the focal ratio increases. That's all. Focal ratio is unrelated to FOV, which is determined only by focal length (so your...
No...your field of view will not change. 3900mm is 3900mm whether is comes in a f/11 or f/30 package. ;-) Why? Who knows why people do stuff. For an SCT, about...
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