Image of the day

Captured by
Michael Scherman

Lagoon and Triffid Celestron C6 Hyperstar4

About Astromart

My Account

New to Astromart?

Register an account...

Need Help?

Posts Made By: Paul Maxson

March 11, 2004 12:51 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter with a Newton 8'

Posted By Paul Maxson
Images like that, I believe Portugal is a great place to image Jupiter!! Wow...keep them coming.

Paul

March 12, 2004 05:23 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: good webcam planet under poor seeing condition

Posted By Paul Maxson
I managed to get decent images under fairly poor seeing conditions. I took the confirming photo of Don Parker's discovery image of the large scale dust storm on Mars back in december. I remember thinking that the seeing was so bad that Mars didn't look right. After I processed the image, I got a decent Mars, but more importantly I got the dust storm, which at that time showed 5 lobes. Bottom line, if it's clear, give it a shot. There was only 2 or 3 times that I didn't image after I set up because of seeing. I consider that even my worst webcam image is better than over 90% of my wet film images from years past.

Paul Maxson

March 14, 2004 11:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn .. another try with old orange

Posted By Paul Maxson
Looking good Larry!!

March 14, 2004 08:24 PM Forum: Solar System Observing

Cute little Saturn

Posted By Paul Maxson
Dominique,

That's a super image of Saturn!! That C925 is a nice instrument. (Wanna get me one in the near future).

Paul Maxson

March 15, 2004 05:13 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Ad #256963 Clyde T's Scope

Posted By Paul Maxson
Talk about the ultimate planetary scope!! I remember watching Clyde's eyes light up when he talked about that scope!!

March 16, 2004 01:52 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter 3.15.04

Posted By Paul Maxson
Vincent,

Is it hand guided? If so, I'm truly impressed!! That's a heck of a nice image from a Dob.

Keep it up!!
Paul Maxson

March 16, 2004 06:27 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Help a newbie, please?

Posted By Paul Maxson
Bill,

First...heck of a nice setup!! Second, when you go from prime focus to the powermate, the focus point changes considerably. Set the gain all the way up and exposure to 1/25, then put the powermate in and try again. You should see a "donut" like object, focus on that. Re-adjust gain and exposure time after getting a rough focus. It's best to make sure your object is centered at prime focus before adding the powermate as the field of view (FOV) is much less. For me when I go from prime focus on my C8 to the 2.5x powermate, I have a fairly large refocus.

Good luck!!
Paul Maxson

March 17, 2004 07:02 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

max FL for Toucam chip

Posted By Paul Maxson
I have a 5x Powermate and have used it twice for imaging with my C8. You can see one image here:

http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~pmaxson/Mars/October/Mars1023txt.jpg

There is a huge difference in quality of image from the 3x televue and 5x powermate. I love the powermate for visual use, but probably will never use it for imaging. Jupiter darn near filled the field of view on the C8.

The folks who use the 5x on dobs are using it with typically F/4 - F/4.5 systems and it gets them to about F/25 or F/30, which seems to be the sweet spot on focal ratio for webcam imaging.

Paul Maxson

March 20, 2004 10:39 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Clear Sky Clock

Posted By Paul Maxson
Same here, just an empty spot on my web page where the Clear Sky Clock should be. Wonder if they got hit by a DOS...

March 22, 2004 01:16 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Upcoming Triple Transit - Jupiter

Posted By Paul Maxson
And a pretty decent double transit starting at about 0200UT on 3/30 as well. Can't wait!!

REALLY hoping for clear skies everywhere!!
Paul Maxson

Funding Member

Sponsors


View all sponsors

Search