Posts Made By: Rod Mollise

Darian Rachal said:

I was thinking about the first 1.25" ocular I purchased way back in 1971(I was 17). It was a University Optics 40mm Kellner. I paid $9.95ppd.

chuck hull said:

I have the LX200. I have the Canon Rebel DSLR. I have a laptop. Now I want to control the telescope and camera from my laptop. I think I have the camera control part down (DSLR Focus and Nebulosity). Now how do I control the telescope from my laptop? I have an 8 year old copy of The Sky if that will help. If someone has done this setup, can you drop me a note and give me some pointers: Cables, software, change something.

Chuck

Alec Hitchman said:

That's what my wife says when she sees my H-alpha shots.

I gave up my filter wheel and other filters, as tri-color (narrow- or broad-band) has always been difficult for me.

I like how mono H-alpha does well on emission, but I don't like how I can't get reflection nebs....that's what I have to settle on being a mono-only wimp!

110-minutes (300 sec subs) on M-20, taken with my little Starshoot II mono, Astronomik H-alpha, through my WO 80FD w/WO reducer.

George Golitzin said:

This last target points out one difficulty of using the 13 ethos as an exclusive DSO eyepiece--its field is occasionally too big!

Doug Peterson said:

You can click on any year archived and see how cold it was. The earliest, 1958 was a bit warmer than 2009 is shaping up to be. In fact, I clicked thru all 50+ years and this summer so far is colder than all 50+ years of data.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

daniel gillis said:

Hello,

I have had fairly good use with an inclinometer (US Digital model) as an altitude encoder for my 20" dob.

I have wondered if an inclinometer and some sort of digital compass could be used for my 8" Portaball?

Thanks,
Daniel

John Agnew said:

An interesting article by Michael Shermer on what he calls "Agenticity."
http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/06/agenticity/
This is just the sort of thinking that has creationists quaking in their boots... rationalism!

Steve Fugardi said:

Another morning of good seeing in CT. Image taken with C11, 1.8x Barlow + 2.5" extension, DMK21 at 100% brightness, gain, gamma. RG 30fps, B 15fps, 1min avis. 900frames stacked from RG, 600 for B. Europa was cropped out of this image since it needs to have the RGB aligned separate from the globe which I have not done before. After recovering from a computer crash trying to run Reg5 and IC capture at the same time, I was lucky to take advantage of the seeing. Ironically, the view through the eyepiece was bad as the eyepiece quickly fogged up from my eye. This is my personal best RGB Jupiter. Hope you like it

Regards,
Steve

Floyd Blue said:


I guess that only the higher end brands of scopes are good enough for amateur photography and unless you are willing to pay huge amounts of money, your attempts are futile.