I did some more testing with the C14 in Chile, and took a series of 10 images of Omega Centauri which I combined and then sharpened with Lucy Richardson deconvolution in CCDSoft (settings: 1.0, 32, 6). This is the result. Individual exposures were 60 seconds.
Remote centering was active for this test, so the image is much better centered than my original post (which was also just a single image).
At this point, remote operation with Browser Astronomy from Software Bisque is working extremely well - the scope can be pointed, centered, and used for imaging anywhere in the world from a browser.
I did a demonstration (using one of these images) while I was speaking at the Astronomical League convention in Nashville on Friday night - using a wireless network card to connect to the internet via the hotel's servers. The ultimate in remote luxury - imaging from a laptop with wireless from a quarter of a world away....
The camera is an AP7 with a reducer to bring the system to about f/7. I would really like to see this setup with a larger format camera!!!
Ron Wodaski
Remote centering was active for this test, so the image is much better centered than my original post (which was also just a single image).
At this point, remote operation with Browser Astronomy from Software Bisque is working extremely well - the scope can be pointed, centered, and used for imaging anywhere in the world from a browser.
I did a demonstration (using one of these images) while I was speaking at the Astronomical League convention in Nashville on Friday night - using a wireless network card to connect to the internet via the hotel's servers. The ultimate in remote luxury - imaging from a laptop with wireless from a quarter of a world away....
The camera is an AP7 with a reducer to bring the system to about f/7. I would really like to see this setup with a larger format camera!!!
Ron Wodaski
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