[AZ-Observing] Re: Astroimages from Cherry Road

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Astroimages from Cherry Road


> Yes, I agree.
> Stan
>
> William R Wood wrote:
>
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>>bGFraXNAY294Lm5ldD4NClRvOiA8QVotT2JzZXJ2aW5nQGZyZWVsaXN0cy5vcmc+DQpTZW50OiBN

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Wow, somebody must have been fooling with my email settings :)

This is the translation of the above gibberish:


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Polakis" <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>
To: <AZ-Observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Astroimages from Cherry Road


> Last Saturday night at Cherry Road, I put the imaging equipment through 
> its paces.  This began innocently with me purchasing an equatorial mount 
> to track a Pronto.  Now I am finding that it does an acceptable job of 
> tracking both that scope and a piggybacked camera with 200mm lens.
>
> I have promised myself not to get back into imaging through a telescope, 
> with all of the frustrations that effort brings.  So for last Saturday 
> night, the Pronto was a glorified guidescope.  The images were taken with 
> a Canon Rebel 300D digital SLR.
>
> Images here:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/polakis/cherry200508
>
>
> ...and comments, in case you care.


I do, and thanks for the tips.  Your results look good to me and I may just 
try that myself when I can figure out how to hook my camera up to my 
telescope - on top, that is.  I was wondering about focusing and it sounds 
like that is not going to be too easy.  I'm still plowing through Kelby's 
Photoshop book :)

Regards

Bill Wood





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