Took a little imaging trip to Gila, NM for 5 nights. Outstanding dark and transparent skies, among the best I have experienced, well, maybe except for the north rim of Grand Canyon, but its hard to tell. NELM on one of the best nights I estimated at 7.5 Seeing was only average due to a front that approached and passed through, but at the scale I was imaging at it was a non-issue.
Amazingly enough we had 5 clear nights in a row. The wind was blowing hard on one night but it didnt matter much having an 80mm scope mounted on an AP 900GTO imaging at 4"/pixel. Of course most of these images could use some more tweaking but I was happy with the amount and quality of data that I captured. A couple of these shots I had already posted but this is the whole works. I'll just post the link instead of clog up the site with large files.
critiques and comments always appreciated, go ahead an rip em apart folks, thats how I learn, thanks for looking, Vince
http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/new.html
Amazingly enough we had 5 clear nights in a row. The wind was blowing hard on one night but it didnt matter much having an 80mm scope mounted on an AP 900GTO imaging at 4"/pixel. Of course most of these images could use some more tweaking but I was happy with the amount and quality of data that I captured. A couple of these shots I had already posted but this is the whole works. I'll just post the link instead of clog up the site with large files.
critiques and comments always appreciated, go ahead an rip em apart folks, thats how I learn, thanks for looking, Vince
http://rattlesnakeobservatory.com/new.html
