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Posts Made By: James Brown

December 23, 2009 06:19 PM Forum: Politics

Nebraska Exception

Posted By James Brown
Mark Norby said:

I think that the Nebraska Exception is corrupt. To "buy" a vote by giving that state special consideration is not just "pork barrel spending". But at least the Senator agreed to pull that requirement if the governor of Nebraska didn't want it in there.

I heard briefly on the radio, no details yet, that the attorney general of Colorado and other states are planning to file a suit to get our Medicaid paid for too, if this NE sweethart deal becomes law. Who could blame the other states for being upset?

Jim

December 31, 2009 03:00 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

ISS transits the moon

Posted By James Brown
That is very cool Alex! Nicely done.

Jim

December 31, 2009 04:01 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Cederblad 214

Posted By James Brown
#1: This image of Cederblad 214 looks balanced to my eye at home, on a calibrated monitor, with faint nebulosity showing right up to the edge on the N, SW and W sides of the frame. At work this image is black-clipped and the faint peripheral nebulosity is gone.

December 31, 2009 04:02 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Cederblad 214

Posted By James Brown
#2 : This image has had its brightness boosted. At work, this one looks like #1 does at home. At home, this one is too bright!

January 4, 2010 03:37 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Cederblad 214

Posted By James Brown
Thanks for the comments guys. I am going to re-process this image with a different monitor, and I will remember to embed the sRGB color profile. This has been a very helpful experiment. Stay tuned for a final version.

Thanks!

Jim

January 8, 2010 03:28 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Cederblad 214

Posted By James Brown
Hi all:

In response to all of your help, I have adjusted my monitor at home and learned to embed the sRGB color space in images for web posting. This version of Cederblad 214 looks pretty much the same at home and on my work monitors now! I am happy, and grateful for all of your input. I do notice that the image is noisy in full resolution. Time to take more subs of this faint object!

Full resolution is here:

http://home.comcast.net/~jameslbrown/pwpimages/Ceberblad%208bit.jpg

Thanks, Jim

January 11, 2010 03:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Opinions requested

Posted By James Brown
Floyd:

I'm not sure I understand the rail/support ring idea. If the support ring clamps to the camera side of the draw tube, (as shown with your guide scope), then each time you focus don't you have to loosen the clamp screws, focus and then re-tighten the screws? Otherwise you would have to implement the support ring on your main scope with a very good sliding bearing so the drawtube and camera can move fore and aft relative to the support plate when you focus. I suppose this is no big deal on the guide refractor, because if you are like me you seldom have re-focus the guiding system.

On your main camera, if you must loosen the ring, focus, tighten the ring, image, etc. that seems like a real pain, and it would eliminate the possibility of an automated periodic focusing software routine if you decided to do that later.

Let me know if I am missing a key conceptual point.

Jim



January 11, 2010 03:20 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M33

Posted By James Brown
Thanks!

Jim

January 11, 2010 04:24 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

First Light from New Digs :)

Posted By James Brown
Tyler Allred said:

Hi all. I finally got a chance to get the scope into the new observatory and try everything out. So far, it looks like everything is working perfectly. The roof rolls off easily despite being 12'x16' is size. The pier seems solid and is nicely isolated, which allows me to move around at will. It was really cold and there were loads of ice crystals in the air, so the seeing was pretty lousy, but I bundled up in a king-sized electric blanket and stayed warm and cozy. This image is just a few shots of the "Running Man" that I took to see if everything was working.

AP130 Starfire F/6
Losmandy G11
Starlight H16

Hi Tyler:

Congratulations, I'm sure that you will have a ton of fun with the new observatory!

Jim

January 13, 2010 10:46 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Could a Tak Teegul Lapides Handle a SV102ED?

Posted By James Brown
Alan Lebov said:

Looking for opinions as to whether or not a Takahashi Teegul Lapides (on my Oberwerk wooden tripod)could handle an SV102ED.

The scope loaded weighs a bit less than 13#.

Any experiences with this mount and similar sized scopes would be appreciated

Thanks!
wink
Alan

Hi Alan:

I think so. I used mine regularly with a Sky 90 and a lesser tripod than yours. Evan Chan has used his with an Astro-Physics 130mm refractor.

This thread has good information that you will want to check out:

http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=689075&poll_id=&news_id=&page=

Jim

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