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Posts Made By: Tom Tolla

June 12, 2006 02:11 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Pair of Ospreys

Posted By Tom Tolla

Great job Ted ! That's a great nest...hope for a hatch soon smile

June 12, 2006 02:27 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

June 26, 2006 10:26 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

August 21, 2006 11:59 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

August 22, 2006 02:08 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

December 12, 2006 01:03 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

What's going on here

Posted By Tom Tolla

Bob, My guess is a few dust bunnies on the sensor . If it's there on a single frame.....it would be in the stack also. Shoot an over exposed frame and take a look. Same as a DSLR camera dust spot.

Just my 2 cents smile

December 20, 2006 10:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn moons and happy holidays

Posted By Tom Tolla

Richard,

Excellent image of Saturn and her moons. Also......you have some amazing RGB images Mars...besides the others on your website. Excellent work !! smile

January 20, 2007 12:52 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn f25, 1/17/07

Posted By Tom Tolla

Steve,
First off....I think you image is very good smile What I do see is minor ringing in the planets globe which leads me to the question....what gain setting are you using ?? The Toucam seems to loose much detail with low number stacks even though the lower gain helps with noise. I myself cannot seem to loose the ringing effect until the gain is above 40%. At this point the detail is improved also.

February 5, 2007 04:51 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Mmmm...Good!

Posted By Tom Tolla

Here's another. Mature at 4+ years

Tom T

February 14, 2007 04:38 PM Forum: Home Observatories

Observatory 2 is UP!

Posted By Tom Tolla

Hey....nice job Ivan 8) In your location it seems that all you can do for a metal shed type building is an iterior 3/4" screwed plywood core, diagonal roof frame stiffeners and dont laugh but...... the same precautions that they have taken at Mount Washington in NH.against uplift wink

Nice Job!!! smile