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Posts Made By: Jose Suro

March 20, 2005 10:34 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image - M4

Posted By Jose Suro
Also from last night. I had a bit of tracking error here and the seeing was poor.

Details: http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m4.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 6, 2005 03:50 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

OT: Bunces Nebula

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

A joke! This is what I'm up against with my skies lately (weeks now) so I'm starting to feel guilty for not contributing. This one is from early this evening shot at Bunces Pass. Ft. De Soto, Florida with a D70 and a 180mm 2.8 Nikkor. Wonder why I can't shoot at night?

And a closeup crop is here:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/terr/bp_sunset-crop.htm


Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 9, 2005 12:51 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Partial Eclipse

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

Have to look through a bunch of these but this is a shot at maximum from my location in Tierra Verde, Florida.

Borg 76ED - JMB glass filter - Nikon D70

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 10, 2005 11:05 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image - M25 Wide Field

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

After imaging most of the evening I had a couple extra hours of
darkness left this morning so I pointed the small scope South to M25
and captured this wide field view.

Image details on the website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m25_wide.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 10, 2005 04:40 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

New Image: Leo Trio

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi,

I know these guys have been shot to death but it was windy last night and that precluded the use of my big scope - so here they are M65, M66 and NGC3628. The little Borg did pretty well.

Image data on the website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/gal/leo_trio.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 20, 2005 05:11 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Color Enhanced Moon

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

Russell Croman just posted an incredible color enhanced image of the Moon on another group and I just had to try the technique. I happened to have 10 Nikon D70 images laying around unprocessed from the January 25 full Moon and decided to try it. The technique involves increasing the color saturation in steps to bring out the subtle color differences on the Moon's surface. A stack of color images is necessary to prevent color noise from dominating the image. The colors are real and the balance is not manipulated, just the saturation.

Image details on website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/ss/moon/color_enhanced_moon.htm

Russell's incredible image:

http://www.rc-astro.com/solar_system/moon/moon_colors.html

The technique - which will be featured in the July issue of Sky and Telescope:

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/manalokos/filipe/moon/colorofthemoon.htm


Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 26, 2005 01:00 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Perfect Parallax 2

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

Some of you might remember this shot I posted in November of last year - the opportunity for the shot comes only twice a year:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/terr/perfect_parallax.htm

I'd been wanting to do the same shot with the Moon but this is a little harder because it only happens once a year. I lucked out last night and was able to grab the shot as the full Moon was coming up.

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

April 30, 2005 10:55 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

First light STL-11000M - M44

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

I put the cart in front of the horse and went ahead and bought this camera, even though most scopes can't handle it and mine are no exception because of the weight which causes flexure and because of the large flat image field required. I have a TAK 106 FSQ on order but that was delayed to August so I went ahead and got the camera first.

This camera is not for the faint of heart! And better have a lot of computer storage. Each image is 21MB

This image was cropped 50% and reduced 50% on top of that. Taken with my Borg76ED, unguided, 10 images each LRGB of 20-seconds.

Details on website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m44-STL-fl.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida


May 4, 2005 01:57 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

More STL tests M48

Posted By Jose Suro
Did some tweaking to my Borg, including getting the camera much closer to the flattener. I still have some flexure issues but thing are improving quite a bit. This image is only cropped 20% BUT, it was reduced 80% to make it less than 250Kb for display! I'm getting a pretty flat field now almost all the way across.

Details on website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/m48-STL-fl.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida



May 8, 2005 04:23 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M8 Wide Field STL H-alpha test

Posted By Jose Suro
Hi All,

Nothing like waiting until 2:00am to start imaging only to have clouds show up 45 minutes later. I had planned 10X900 second exposures but ended up with only three so the images has a bit of noise and less nebulosity than I hoped. Some of the noise though is Jpeg artifacts from the high compression used to bring the size of the image down to 250KB.

Details on website:

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/neb/m8wHa-STL-fl.htm

Best,

Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida

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