[AZ-Observing] Re: Astroimages from Cherry Road

Nice pictures, Tom.  In July, Frank was going to have me see if his laser
pointer would show up in a photograph, but we forgot to do it.  That must be
Frank's laser pointer in your photo.  Shows up pretty well.........    :-)




Jon Christensen

----- 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.

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