Posts Made By: Mark Clegg

Hello ,

I'm a first time poster and currently own a 5.2" triplet refractor. I am considering a Mewlon 300 for my next scope. Question, can anyone compare for me the views seen in a Mewlon 300 vs. a 203mm refractor (deep space, lunar and planetary).

Thanks

Mark

I don't know about everyone else but for the past few months I have been watching many football games, college and professional and I hate the fact that coaches can call a last second timeout (last fraction of a second time out) to anticipate a snap call and disrupt a play at the end of a game.

Maybe the coaches have the right to do so, but putting an official in the position of listening to or looking for a time out call while observing the football and trying to determine whether a snap is in progress is almost impossible.

Guess that's where the replay system can help.

This activity cost the Baltimore Ravens the game last night.. Baltimore had them stopped on fourth down late in the game, but a last (fraction of a second) timeout was called by their coaches, negating the play.. Glad to see this gamble can work the other way too.

Go Pat's

Mark

Hello,

This is my first attempt at Mars using my TEC200 f/9 and the Toucam 840. This photo was taken at approx. f/40 on 12-27-07. Seeing was about 5 of 10 in very heavy dew conditions.


Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.

Back in Dec. 2007, I posted my first Mars image taken with my TEC200 f/9 using a Toucam Pro 840. Conditions were pretty good that night, with times of excellent seeing.. although very heavy dew conditions were present. Nonetheless, I was happy with the outcome.

Recently I was doing some "spring cleaning" on my laptop hard drive and came across a couple of AVI files that had somehow been saved to a different folder than I normally use as a destination. These AVI's were taken during that same evening, but with a different configuration within the ArcSoft software. After reviewing the files, I realized they had promise and processed them... See the attachment for the results.

Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.

Hello,

This is my first image of Saturn this year. Seeing was the best I have seen lately. Equipment used was:

TEC 200 f/9
AP1200GTO
Toucam 840 Pro
AP Barcon

Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.

Attached is a image of Jupiter taken on 11-06-09. Equipment used :
TEC200 ED refractor at f/20, AP1200 GTO mount, Imaging Source color camera


Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.

Here is my first of hopefully many images of Mars this season..

Mark Clegg

Attached is one of the images of Jupiter I captured on the 7th of Nov. The seeing was very steady (although the skies were bright with the moon near full)..

Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.

Each time I attempt to submit a photo to ATWB customer gallery..this is where the process stops:

We're sorry, an internal error occurred that prevents the request to complete.
Our supporting staff has been notified with this error and will address this issue shortly. We profusely apologize for the inconvenience and for any damage this may cause. You might want to try the same action at later time.

Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.

Here is a image of Jupiter taken in early December 2011.

Mark Clegg
Pittsboro, N.C.