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Posts Made By: Ron Wodaski

October 15, 2002 05:04 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

M31, M32, M110 - Canon D60

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Awesome image; amazing what you can do with the D60. That's _amazingly_ deep. Needs a little green reduction, however - do you have some light pollution where you imaged this? If I subtract the green, the colors neutralize nicely and there's plenty of blue and red detail that comes out. There's also a slight central hot spot, but this doesn't show up clearly until you rebalance color.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 15, 2002 05:06 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

CCDSoft autoguiding question

Posted By Ron Wodaski
What version of CCDSoft are you using? This may have been changed in the most recent versions. Current released version is 1.0.70; current beta version is 1.0.72 (includes scripting support).

Your workaround is the right approach, however.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 15, 2002 04:19 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn first try crude picture though

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Nice start! Seeing will limit what you can do. ALso, with single exposures, noise can be a problem. Try taking multiple images and combining them to average out the noise. How you combine will depend on what software you are using for image processing. I see Mike U. has replied; I'll bet he has some suggestions for Image Plus.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 16, 2002 04:56 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

D60 M13

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Nice detail. A little green, however. From what I'm seeing, most of the D60 long-exposure images are tinted green. A little post-processing to remove the green cast would fix this.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 16, 2002 05:08 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

D60 North American Nebula

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Nice work! Boy, these D60 images are really redefining what you can do with a digital camera.

This image has a green/blue central hot spot that was easy to remove using the gradient removal techniques from my book, as shown in the attached image. I simply selected the central portion of the image, and raised the black point of the green and blue channels simultaneously.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 16, 2002 05:10 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

salvaged image--thanks Ron W.

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Nice result; very good detail here, and lots of outer stars as well. A slightly lower black point might be good. I can see a bit of coma at lower and central right; a little touch up to collimation would be a good idea.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 16, 2002 05:12 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Best CCD mount for under $3,000

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Those scopes are all heavy, so your mount choices under $3,000 are pretty limited. The Newts, especially, are probably too heavy for any mount in this price class. The newer G11 from Losmandy, with the redisigned gears, is your best shot.

Otherwise, the Mountain MI-250 sounds like a good mount price-wise for what you are trying to do. Otherwise, you'd need something like a Tak EM-200, which is well out of your price range. You could look for either used.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 16, 2002 05:13 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

First time poster

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Excellent results, all the more so because you are pushing the limits of your equipment pretty hard.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

October 17, 2002 09:18 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

M27 - Wide Field D60

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Nice.

Ron W

October 18, 2002 07:53 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Moon

Posted By Ron Wodaski
Nice moon shot.

With respect to focus, your eye will usually get a sharper result on planets than the camera will, even with very short exposure times. the sseing gets in the way of those very small details.

Ron Wodaski
author of "The New CCD Astronomy"
http://www.newastro.com

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