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Posts Made By: Jose Suro

December 28, 2004 04:34 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

First Light - D70 and Registax V3

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi all,

Finally coupled my new D70 to my Borg 76ED for some test shots last night and also decided to test the new Registax with these images. Interestingly, the D70 at a resolution of 3.2 arc-seconds per pixel has less resolution then my Olympus C4000Z with this setup.

This is a stack of 10 images processed in Registax V3, then in PhotoShop for curves and cropping. The result from Registax is better than for any one single image that I tried to process. This is good news because I've always only processed single images of the full disk and Registax did a better job than I could with single images. I could post my best single image on request.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

December 28, 2004 04:52 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Moon Rise Last Night - Weird :)

Posted By Jose Suro
Part of my first tests with my D70 and my Borg 76ED. Is this a weird compression effect of what?

The image is a composite of two images - one 8-second image for the city and one 1/4-second image for the Moon. The Moon was actually 1.5 frames away and to the right of the city but I merged the images with no changes to the scale. Some of the foreground lights are 2.5 miles away. The taller buildings are about 8 miles away. The Moon's elevation was not changed.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

December 28, 2004 11:24 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Lesser Scaup

Posted By Jose Suro
An image from this afternoon. I could finally tell one of these apart from a Greater Scaup by the purple sheen.

Nikon D70 and Nikon 180mm ED lens.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 4, 2005 10:24 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Machholz last night

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi,

Finally cleared up enough down here for some imaging. Transparency was not too good though.

Borg 76ED piggybacked on NexStar 11 GPS - ST2000XM - LRGB 5:15:7:9 - MaxIm/DL - Images Plus - PhotoShop CS - Neat Image.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 5, 2005 11:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Saturn on Jan 2, 2005

Posted By Jose Suro
An excellent image Eric - congratulations! That 9.25 seems to be a "pick of the litter"!

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 19, 2005 03:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Orion's Sword

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

Not up to standards but weather and equipment woes conspired to make 7 hours of imaging worthless last night. I reduced the image to 45% to try to hide the defects and have something to show for the effort. At least you can get an idea of what I was going for. Taken with a 180mm ED Nikon lens and an ST2000XM, 7 hours HaRGB.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 22, 2005 03:12 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

11 Day Moon Mosaic

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

I've always wanted to do one of these but never got around it until last night. This is a large image (650KB) so I loaded it to my website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/11_day_moon_mosaic.htm


NexStar 11 GPS @ F/6 - ST-2000XM - Astronomik H-alpha filter - six exposures @ .04 second.

Thumbnail below.



Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 22, 2005 03:23 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Saturn Opposition 2005.

Posted By Jose Suro
Incredible! That scope of yours is perfect. The best I've seen this year.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 22, 2005 06:08 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Longomontanus

Posted By Jose Suro
Dusted off my trusty TouCam last night. After a year of not using it I also forgot how to use the software so I overexposed this image quite a bit.

NexStar 11 GPS @ F/30 - TouCam Pro - TV 3X Barlow - Registax 3

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

January 31, 2005 03:08 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

GWH on the hunt

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

A test of my Nikon D70 with my Borg 76ED. The image is a 1200X900 crop from about 150 yards away.

Nikon D70 - Borg 76ED @ F6 - Borg 1.04x flattener

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

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