[AZ-Observing] Re: Was Saturday Great or What???
- From: "Jon Christensen" <jonc97@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 19:55:45 -0700
Wow, another excellent image! You can see sure see a lot of detail from
Antares to M8 to everything!
Jon Christensen
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From: "Keith Schlottman, CPA" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Was Saturday Great or What???
Dean,
After seeing your fantastic 20Da pictures at the TAAA meeting a couple of
months ago I decided to get one to play with. I'm a relative newbie to
imaging so the convenience of the 20Da appealed to me. I don't expect to
get images of the quality you're producing, but I hope to get better with
experience.
Saturday night was excellent at the Texas Star Party as well, and I decided
to attempt an image of the Sagittarius star clouds to finish off a great
week of star partying. Dean Salman helped me figure out how to handle some
problems I was having with autoguiding a few nights earlier, so I
piggybacked the camera on my guided LX200 and set it for a single 10-minute
exposure. I wasn't sure what ISO speed to use so I arbitrarily chose 400.
The lens was a variable at 24mm and f/ratio was 5.6.
You can see my result at
http://www.schlottmancpa.com/xanadu/TSPStarClouds043006.jpg.
I really have not used this camera very much for astrophotography yet. I
still need to learn a lot including how to process the pictures to bring out
details, smoothing and sharpening etc., but in general I'm pretty excited
about the results so far. Plus, it takes great pictures of my wife and
kids.
BTW I hope I have not violated any rules by posting a Texas observation on
the AZ observing list... ;-)
Clear Skies,
Keith Schlottman
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