[AZ-Observing] Re: Astroimages from Cherry Road
- From: "William R Wood" <w.wood@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:40:49 -0700
----- 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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