Kris, BSAS, including Chuck Schlemm's wonderful space display and an Astronomy Channel presentation will be there. Lonnie ... Regional ... Thursday ... have ...
This is an excellent up-to-date news article on the current state of CMOS vs. CCD technology. Video astronomy cameras may soon be switching over to CMOS for...
As usual, it's the first Wednesday of the month and it's time for another meeting at my home. We will be finishing the LX200 user manual this month and...
If anyone has an interest in the specifics about the weather in Brentwood, we have just started posting conditions at Dyer. The page is updated once per...
WOW, It was actually caught on video! http://tinyurl.com/73cbk Scott ... Meteor lights up WA night. ABC News Online [This is the print version of story...
I'm using a Meade LDX75 6SN with UHTC, and I've been playing around with a Canon Powershot A510 and the Meade LPI. Now, I'm wanting to get more serious (w/in a...
TeleVue 4.8mm 1.25" Nagler is $95 at astronomics, and few other places right now! I am sorly tempted right now, even though I have less then 1/3rd of those...
I use the Reble on my Mead LXD 10". Its a great all round camera and does good job with my scope. A good portion of the members of my forum use the 300, 350,...
Mark, Congratulations! It should clear out by friday night. I talked to celestron tuesday and they said they were working on my scope now. I have a week off...
Now that's a nice looking little weather generator you got there Mark! Looking forward to seeing some images as soon as the weather clears up in a few weeks...
WOW! That explains everything! Looks like a month of clouds to me, with a few inches of snow added for good measure. Very, very nice Mark…congrats! Looking...
"weather generator". . . try "Tornado Magnet!" That's some VERY nice looking equipment. I nearly agree with Scott. . . only one minor modification, ". . ....
Mark Great looking set up !! The Mak with a focal length of 5000mm should be a great planetary scope. Clear cold skies tonight. Saturn should be an awesome...
I sent an email out to those who wanted to participate, but just in case it did not reach everyone, the Scopes for Schools workshop at Dyer has been cancelled....
For those interested. Allen For those imagers among you who live within traveling distance of (or can travel to) Cincinnati: On January 28 & 29, 2006 the...
In a message dated 12/15/2005 10:06:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, shawngrant30@... writes: Some of you maybe interested to know that Night Sky magazine...
During a short period of clear skies early Sunday am, I tried imaging Cleomedes and Petavius. The seeing was quite bad, but the images show some detail,...
Hey Mark. You got a loaner program?? ... From: tnastronomy@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tnastronomy@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Manner Sent: Monday, December...
Mark - these are great - can't wait to see what you do on a night of "good" seeing! By the way, can you tell us what you used to process the images? Steve...
Steve, thanks. I acquired 2500 raw frames with Streampix software, processed several hundred of the best frames in Registax (with a relatively small amount of...
Very nice Mark! Like Steve, can’t wait to see some images taken during good seeing. BTW, the CSC is showing average to good seeing tomorrow night. I’m...
Mark - Have you ever tried resizing the avi raw frames first before processing? The technique is something I picked up from an article by Tony Gondola that...
Steve, thanks for that article. It has a lot of interesting steps. It is a lot of processing, but I bet that it would result in a better image. Have you ever...
Keith, no loaner program, but you can use whatever you like if you will come out and bring some potato chips! Mark ... [mailto:tnastronomy@yahoogroups.com] On...
Mark, I like the hole in the shadow on the Cleomedes shot. Nice work! Jim ... From: Mark Manner To: tnastronomy@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 19,...
Mark Excellent images!! Just think what you can do with good seeing, more time, and warmer weather. The summer moon on one of those moderate transparent very...