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Posts Made By: Ralph Encarnacion

June 20, 2003 01:59 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Vehicle Recommendations

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
My favorite vehicle is my Honda Goldwing motorcycle with my trailer. I can put my GP/DX, Televue 85, observers chair, and eyepiece case in there with room to spare. The trailer doesn't match because I got it used.
Ralph

June 20, 2003 02:04 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars June 18 2003

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
Nice going Wes! Nasa needs to get the Shuttle fixed so they can go up and put a webcam in the Hubble;-)
Ralph

July 23, 2003 10:26 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

ISS 07-22-03

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
Just when I think I am catching up to you, you go and raise the bar 5 more notches! Out standing image Wes. My question is, what did you focus on before the fly by?
Ralph

July 26, 2003 01:02 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Deluxe MK66 vs Televue 85-Help!

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
I have never looked through a MK66 so I cant say if it is any better, but I would not trade my TV 85. I would just buy the Nagler zoom.
Ralph

August 15, 2003 02:20 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

New Mars with CP5000

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
I got to hand it to you Mark, you got a good one. I can't use my 5000 right now, I wore out the Nikon remote and need to get another one.
Ralph

August 18, 2003 07:04 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars animation Aug 13

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
That sure is a nice animation Johannes. I know it took a lot of work. I did one a couple of weeks ago and only did it for an hour. Looks like yours was at least 3 hours. What software did you use to animate it. The one I used for mine made it come out pixelated and I want to redo it. Don't worry about the lack of responces, everybody is just speechless after looking at it.
Ralph

August 24, 2003 06:55 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

MARS August 23 2003

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
Fantastic Wes!
Ralph

August 27, 2003 12:42 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Help with Toucam

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
First thing you need to do is move as far south as possible, preferrably where there is perfect seeing conditions most of the time. Put the webcam on manual, 10fps, gain all the way down, gamma about a third. Use a big enough barlow to get you a good size Mars without going overboard or it will get fuzzy. Play with the shutter speed until you get a slightly under exposed Mars. Use an infrared blocking filter. Adjust the focus on the scope (the hardest part). Take lots of one or two minute videos. Load the video in Registax. Click on stack and align. When it gets done, slide the bottom 3 wavelet filters to at least 30. You should get a halfway decent Mars. If you didn't, then you probably didn't follow the first step, or you didn't nail the focus. If it is still not good enough, put the webcam behind an 11" or 14" Celestron SCT. Here is my best one out of my little 8" C-8.
Ralph

September 10, 2003 02:14 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

New M33

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
Nice one Mark. Just when I start to catch up, you raise the bar another couple of notches;-) 30-5 minute images! That is a lot of images. Did the 10D battery last that long or did you have to use more than one battery.
Ralph

December 6, 2003 05:10 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Orion 80 ED M33 Color Image

Posted By Ralph Encarnacion
Do you think the focus lock on the Orion scope is strong enough to hold a Canon 10D camera? The one I looked at seemed that the focus lock screw didn't do anything and I was afraid that the weight of a heavy camera might be enough to move the focus with the scope pointing up. LMK
Thanks
Ralph

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