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90545 John Mahony
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Sep 1, 2006
8:05 am
... The vote was open to the all IAU members. ... Nobody. The IAU makes rules for themselves. As a technicality, during the "space race" in the 60's, the US...
90546 jbsgtulsa Send Email Sep 1, 2006
9:46 am
Turns out my problem looks to be the two nuts that hold pressure on the clutch ring from the lever have backed off. It's a tiny space, but if I can sneak a...
90547 Leo Taylor
leotaylor2 Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
12:39 pm
... I've often said the best accessory you can buy for an SCT is a widefield refractor. Perhaps some day you will piggyback a small refractor with 2 inch...
90548 Dan
fender2547886 Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
12:45 pm
Thad, I own one of thee 66mm beauts and have to disagree with your comment on "unsrewing the objective the hide some Rebel yell" there really is not enough...
90549 Wildcard Innovations
argo_navis_dtc Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
3:50 pm
Hi, Thanks for the post. Gary Kopff here from Wildcard Innovations, manufacturers of the Argo Navis DTC. ... The first 30 pages of the Manual will take you all...
90550 Frank Barrett
frank_a_barrett Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
5:09 pm
Leo, Thanks, your experience with your K1000 is similar to mine. I do have a good wide field refractor with a quality 2" focuser and plan to use it, but for...
90551 Tanveer Gani
burdbeen Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
5:50 pm
I think it's also due to the linear response of the CCD. The comatic tail is an order of magnitude lower in intensity than the head (see the Dutch Boys' book)....
90552 Roth Ritter
roth_ritter Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
5:58 pm
... It's a hard choice when you start comparing all of the pros and cons because once you do that, you quickly expand that analysis beyond the camera to other...
90553 Dennis Persyk
dennis_persyk Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
7:43 pm
There exist tremendous differences in the performance of the mount, the scope and the detector in comparing film to digital recording means. By way of...
90554 Rod Mollise
rmollise Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
8:28 pm
The biggest drawback to using film? There is no film...not for the deep sky, anyway. Black and white? Tech Pan is gone. Color prints? Nothing available has...
90555 Rod Mollise
rmollise Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
8:46 pm
Hi Gang: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I believe we had about 37 entries in four categories. Not bad...not bad considering. Of the four...
90556 Frank Barrett
frank_a_barrett Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
10:27 pm
Rod, You are right about that! It's interesting that I had listed my old dark room setup on eBay and that same evening there was an article in the Wall Street...
90557 Frank Barrett
frank_a_barrett Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
10:36 pm
... cons ... the ... You are right about that! I did look hard at buying a second hand ST10 (I think I had pinged you about yours <g>). I even had an ST8 on...
90558 jarekpp Send Email Sep 2, 2006
12:12 am
I have bought recently CGE1400 to replace my C9.25S-GT, now I am very close to selling my old C9.25 and it looks like I can use this money for new "stuff" for...
90559 Allan Mayer
SCTUSER@... Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
12:44 pm
... I still have a lot of it, and you and Dennis's being 100% right really is painful........ -- Allan Mayer http://sctuser.home.comcast.net CentOS 4.3 KDE...
90560 Joe Bomberger
jdbomber124 Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
1:19 pm
Nico That was a great shot, I've seen Usanus under, not so optimal conditions, and that was much better than the optical view I saw. It was low to the...
90561 Rod Mollise
rmollise Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
1:56 pm
Hi Gang: I mentioned some time back that I needed a small part for my ETX125PE (the RA lock lever, to be exact), and decided to attempt to obtain it via...
90562 Bill Reynolds
allthatucanc Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
3:23 pm
And ya' know what, guys? After all the passing and lamenting, all the knocks on quality and all the improvements since, sometimes.......it's just fun to do! I...
90563 Rod Mollise
rmollise Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
3:42 pm
I'll tell y'all what... If I still had a very dark site... and... There was still decent film... I'd still be imaging with my medium format and 35 cameras. I...
90564 Bill Reynolds
allthatucanc Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
3:47 pm
Nico! Sweet! Uranus and Neptune are two of my favorites and I'm looking forward to taking a crack at them myself. Very nice. I kept the shots for...
90565 William R. Mattil
data_god Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
4:52 pm
Rod, et all, The information on Color Print film is inaccurate. Fuji SHQ100 and SHQ200 work quite well on Deep Sky. And as you mentioned Kodak E200 is still...
90566 Chris Peterson
cloudbait Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
5:10 pm
But you don't need a 35mm format sensor to get the same resolution that color films deliver- something around the APS size is sufficient. And for many years...
90567 Tom Slater
tslater@... Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
5:34 pm
From: "William R. Mattil" <wrmattil@...> Subject: Re: [sct-user] Re: Film vs. Digital ... And, of course, "Momma don't take my Kodachrome away" Makes...
90568 Rod Mollise
rmollise Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
7:29 pm
Hi: Kodachrome, particularly Kodachrome 25 was a wonderful film...that said... It was useless for astrophotography. I shot all the images for my first book on...
90569 Dennis Persyk
dennis_persyk Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
7:37 pm
Hi Bill, Do you know of any SCTs with a 43 mm image circle (35 mm frame diagonal)? I don't. There is some very nice imagery being done with Meade DSIs on...
90570 Dennis Persyk
dennis_persyk Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
7:43 pm
Hello Bill, I looked at the film images on your web site and they spectacular. Nice work. But I note that not one image was taken with an SCT. You image with ...
90571 Bill Reynolds
allthatucanc Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
7:55 pm
What I was saying was......keep your expectations low and you won't be disappointed, enjoy the discipline and mix things up every once in a while! Man does not...
90572 Frank Barrett
frank_a_barrett Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
8:11 pm
Nico, Wow! That is quite an accomplishment. Seeing must have been pretty good to be able to shoot so long. Way to go! Frank http://celestialwonders.com ... ...
90573 Rod Mollise
rmollise Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
8:55 pm
Hi: If you like these print films, that's fine. I was less than impressed with them. Be that as it may, the other big factor is the lack of a good dark site. ...
90574 divenuts
pins4fins Send Email
Sep 2, 2006
10:17 pm
Hi Rod, I just looked at all the entries and as you said they are in the WOW catogory. I would suggest that the DSO catagory be broken into DSLR and CCD's....
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