Posts Made By: James Brown

Rob Wiederrich said:

8O The US dollar my be going the way of the dodo.

Dave Snope said:

You can see these guys with the Guy Fawkes masks at every Occupy Wall Street demonstration. What is their message? Are they trying to tell us that they are strident religious fanatics that use IED terrorism to install a theocratic catholic monarchy to replace our government? You know, like Guido Fawkes? :S

Floyd Blue said:

Hi,
I have finally finished processing a posted my three targets to my gallery. Here are three links to the images. If you click on the image it will show a larger version, which is 1/2 scale.
Hope you like them, each was a bit of a challenge, all were faint objects and not as spectacular as some. But I am trying to take shots of less visited objects this year.
8)

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-27s-pics/p8398-ngc-1491-lrgb.html

Hi Floyd:

Nice work. I've got a couple of fall shots almost ready to process, but I need a bit more data. Hopefully in the next few weeks!

Jim

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-27s-pics/p8397-sh2-157-lrgb.html

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-27s-pics/p8396-ic342-lrgb.html

jeff catalina said:

It's hard for me not to smile as I watch conservative politicians and their supporters fight amongst themselves. Cain blames liberals, then the Perry camp for leaking the harassment story, Perry blames the Romney camp, conservative supporters blame liberals (of course) and then we're all treated to conservative forum members attacking each other over their choice of candidate.

Anyone have some popcorn?

Say what you want about liberals -- at least for now we're able to avoid the political donnybrooks that seem to erupt among the right.

Jim Brown said:

[SIZE="Large"]"You realize that there are some people out there think the guy who really needs to get a life is the astroimager out there spending ten thousand dollars on equipment to take the ten millionth picture of M42" [/SIZE]

A. McConahay 3/10/10




I gotta agree with Alex's tongue in cheek wisdom, but I still can't resist posting my M42. I'm always posting these "late" in the season, because Denver sits just to the East of me and I can't image until an object is transiting or setting to the West.

This rendition includes 10 sub-frames each of Ha, OII, R, G and B at 15 minutes and 10 sub-frames for each filter at 2 minutes. I also took 20 L frames at each time interval and used maybe 17 of them/per time interval. It all totaled up to about 130 sub-frames and slightly over 19 hours of imaging time. Fortunately I have CCD Commander dialed in, so I was able to image all night over the course of a few January to early March days.

I just upgraded my old laptop, and that made a ton of difference as far as being able to process all of this data.

The processing is basically an LRGB with Ha supplementing the Red and L channels and OIII supplementing the Blue, Green and L channels too. As you guys know, I had to process the nebula core and interior separately to avoid washing out the brighter parts. This was a real project, with a ton of processing choices.

But I like the results, hopefully you do too. Thanks for any comments.

A full sized jpeg is located here:

http://home.comcast.net/~jameslbrown/pwpimages/Final%203.jpg

TEC APO 140 with flattener, FLI Microline 11002M, FLI wheel and focuser, Baader filters, Astro-Physics Mach 1, Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2, CCD Commander, Focus Max.

Jim

Russ Carroll said:

Any chance you could go Ex Parte in front of a judge before this evening and seal this weeks football pool results??? It was a pretty brutal week for some of us.

Rob Wiederrich said:

Please contribute your thoughts on why Islamic woman must wear the Chador.