... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
Allan Mayer
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Sep 2, 2006 12:44 pm
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From: "William R. Mattil" <wrmattil@...> Subject: Re: [sct-user] Re: Film vs. Digital ... And, of course, "Momma don't take my Kodachrome away" Makes...
Tom Slater
tslater@...
Sep 2, 2006 5:34 pm
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ... ...
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. ...
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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