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Posts Made By: Joe McBride

December 10, 2003 08:58 PM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

Lens sky coverage

Posted By Joe McBride

Thanks to all who responded!

January 25, 2004 02:57 AM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

Power at prime focus?

Posted By Joe McBride

Hi David, I take the f.l. of the telescope in inches and divide by 2 to get a ballpark figure. Also you could take the f.l. in mm and multiply by .02 to get a little more exact.

Joe

April 24, 2004 03:21 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Comet Bradfield

Posted By Joe McBride

Hi All, I was looking at GUIDE7 and it has Linear up at about 11 deg at 6:15 EDT here in MI., and Bradfield is lower yet but farther North. I hope to get up and take a look at them this morning. Linear is about 2 deg East of the red star TX Psc or 19. It is the Eastern most star in the Western Fish.

Joe

May 2, 2004 02:46 AM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Johny Pop-Up

Posted By Joe McBride

Yup! Pretty, but too much like Violets. They end up everywhere.

Joe

May 20, 2004 02:22 AM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

Celestron Schmidt Newtonian??

Posted By Joe McBride

Hi Robert, I have one that was made in 83. It is an orange tube version. I think am the second owner.

Joe

May 23, 2004 04:20 AM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

M13, M57, Veil, Open Cluster, Neat...

Posted By Joe McBride

Hi Paul, I like #7 8) . As for #10 well I had problems a few years back with Racoons. While sitting at the guide scope taking a photo the babies or little ones would crawl all over me looking for a hand out. The first couple of times was really scarry. Then it got to the point that they would not leave until fed. So at the end of the session I would cover everything up go inside and get a bag of marshmellows, bring it out and feed them. Then through the rest of the night you could hear them fighting over the food.

Joe

August 20, 2004 12:45 PM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

Duplicating Slides

Posted By Joe McBride

Hi Guys, I have duped slides like this before but it is a little grainy for 35mm. One thin that I do myself though is to make prints from slides by photographing the slide with print film say kodak 100. This also increases some grain but also boosts the color.

Thanks

Joe

December 4, 2004 05:07 PM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

Using film -- ah the memories! M8 revisited

Posted By Joe McBride

Nice work with processing.

Joe

February 21, 2005 02:20 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

How Vignetting Effects Taught Me something about L

Posted By Joe McBride

Hey Man...great shot anyway. That m-51 shot looks just like the ones I use to shoot with Tri-X with an old 12.5" telescope our club used to own.

Regards!

Joe

February 27, 2005 04:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

another saturn on 24 februar

Posted By Joe McBride

Excellent color on the disk

Joe