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Posts Made By: Roland Christen

August 17, 2013 09:59 PM Forum: Landscape Photography

Yosemite Miscellenia

Posted By Roland Christen
Thank you for posting those pictures. Brings back fond memories of my one time visit to this gem of a park.

Rolando

August 21, 2013 10:47 PM Forum: Astro-Physics

Testing a 12" astrograph

Posted By Roland Christen
Here is the full frame, reduced size to fit the AM limits.

August 21, 2013 10:50 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Testing a 12" Astrograph

Posted By Roland Christen
Here is the full frame of the 16803 chip, at reduced size.

August 22, 2013 10:13 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Testing a 12" Astrograph

Posted By Roland Christen
Well thank you all for your enthusiasm for a monochrome image of a very common object grin

If'n you want to see what it looks like, here are a few images of the setup. There is another scope next to the Big Mak, a 305 F3.8 R-H astrograph, also under test.

Rolando

August 26, 2013 09:50 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

qhy5l-ii user manual?

Posted By Roland Christen
Be patient. These things do work extremely well. The on-site manual is pretty much non-existent. All you really need to do is download both sets of software for this camera and fire away. It really is easy to operate.

Rolando

September 5, 2013 08:07 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Dark sky in Hawaii

Posted By Roland Christen
While we were there, our friend and local astronomy nut, Chris Erickson, let me use his 130EDF refractor, set on his 900 mount to do a little higher resolution shots of some Milky Way objects.

I have always enjoyed scanning the southern part of the Milky way with binoculars and two of my favorite bino object were M6 and M7. To me M6 looks like a butterfly in a 10x50 bino, so I tried to capture this effect in the image. M7 is right in the thick of the Milky Way, so this was processed to show the structure of our galaxy with M7 somewhat overexposed. Both of these images are single 10 minute RGB exposures with my QSI 683 camera, guided with the little Lodestar camera, processed in MaximDL.

September 13, 2013 03:58 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Imaging: What's the Point?

Posted By Roland Christen
AAAnd if you are into imaging, here is the place to go to hone your skills and kvetch with other enthusiasts:

http://www.aicccd.com/

http://www.aicccd.com/newsletter/aic_newsletter_vol6nbr5.html?utm_source=Campaigner&utm_campaign=Friday_September_13_2013_-_2&campaigner=1&utm_medium=HTMLEmail

Rolando

September 26, 2013 08:51 PM Forum: Astro-Physics

Cave Nebula

Posted By Roland Christen
Here is where the scopes ended up at 2 am. I started imaging toward the East to shoot NGC7000, and then around midnight or so started imaging the Cave, with the mount now upside down. Still had another hour of clearance left. Very convenient to not have to switch sides and find a new guide star.

Roland

September 30, 2013 06:53 PM Forum: Astro Binoculars

APM 100 mm 45° ED-Apo Binocular

Posted By Roland Christen
That is a very nice product, Markus. What price?

Roland

October 4, 2013 05:06 PM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

Found Pic of First Scope. GREAT Memories!

Posted By Roland Christen
Nice scope! I also remember the Detroit Astronomical Society. They used to bring scopes to the Wayne County Fair. This is how I got started in astronomy when I first looked thru some of the scopes they had set up back in the 1950's. As a kid, my first view of Saturn thru a 3" Unitron got me hooked on owning my own telescope. You couldn't pull me away from that scope for over an hour.

By the way, love those deep shag rugs in your photo - so 1950! Almost expect Donna Reed to pop up in the background.

Rolando

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