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Posts Made By: Jim Carpenter

October 26, 2006 02:36 AM Forum: Landscape Photography

Moody Casa Grande

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Bill,
Awesome pictures of the Big House. I grew up in Central Texas, but never made it to Guadalupe Mtns NP until this past summer. It's definitely in our plans for a return trip in the not too distant future.

Jim

October 30, 2006 01:41 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

My new website

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Tyler,
The only thing missing is a page or link to your excellent birding and landscape images.

Jim

November 8, 2006 07:23 PM Forum: Solar System Observing

Mercury Transit

Posted By Jim Carpenter

12:13:59 in SW Denver (per Garmin GPS).

Jim

November 9, 2006 04:09 PM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

Mercury Transit

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Nice shot, Bob. Here's the one good shot I got. Stellarvue 102EDT, homemade Baader film filter, Nikon D70, single image cropped and adjusted in PSE5.

Jim

December 8, 2006 04:09 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Nebula filters

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Has anyone tried one of these? http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1578
And if so, what are your comments?

Jim

December 15, 2006 04:27 PM Forum: Celestron

ALT - AZ MOUNT FOR A C-14

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Hi Bob,
Pretty cool idea for such a large and heavy OTA. I presume the az bearing is a typical dob-style ebony star and teflon, but what are you using for the altitude bearings?

Jim

December 23, 2006 09:07 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Material for a blind

Posted By Jim Carpenter

If you don't want to try the screws and washers that the others mentioned, here's two other otions:
1. Wrap the ends of the tarp into a tube and sew them (helps to have an understanding wife with a sewing machine). Just slip the PVC through the tubes when you assemble the frames.
2. Double the ends of the tarp over and put a brass grommet every 8"-12" and tie the tarp to the frame.
BTW, I doubt that putting a #6 screw into 1" PVC every 12" is going to substantially degrade the strength of the PVC.

Jim

January 16, 2007 02:53 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Camera/Eyepiece Adapters

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Here's a some links from the Yahoo Afocal group:

http://www.bugeyedigital.com/
http://www.ckcpower.com/adapters.htm
http://www.photosolve.com/main/product/digimount/index.html
http://www.stellarvue.com/adapters.html
http://www.eagleeyeuk.com/ (this one is in the UK)

Jim

May 28, 2007 11:50 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Another Alt-Az Question?

Posted By Jim Carpenter

Larry,
Save yourself some money in the long run and get the Microstar. You'll end up getting it or something similar even if you try the Bogen/Manfrotto 410. The 410 suffers from the same problems as other photo heads, namely the center of gravity of the OTA is not aligned with the altitude axis. Plus, motion is limited by the gear range.

Jim

June 20, 2007 02:46 PM Forum: Refractors

stellarvue 102ed

Posted By Jim Carpenter

George,
Jim Sommer posted his impressions after using a SV102ED at RTMC: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stellarvue/message/69322
Jon Talbot also posted the following regarding using the SV102ED for AP: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stellarvue/message/69530

Jim