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Posts Made By: Ron Bee

July 27, 2005 11:58 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Mars Type B vs #21 filter

Posted By Ron Bee
http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=352999&poll_id=&news_id=

Enjoy,
Ron B[ee]

August 1, 2005 05:19 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Lunar MISSION: POSSIBLE - The Ghost and Mrs Moon

Posted By Ron Bee
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1143
Enjoy the ghoulish hunt ;-).

Ron B[ee]

August 5, 2005 11:22 PM Forum: Refractors

My new Tele Vue NP127

Posted By Ron Bee
http://users.adelphia.net/~ronbee/Toys/NP127-FirstDay.html

Enjoy, I sure do ;-).
Ron the 5.0000-inch Tall Evangelist B[ee]

August 5, 2005 11:22 PM Forum: After Dark

My new Tele Vue NP127

Posted By Ron Bee
http://users.adelphia.net/~ronbee/Toys/NP127-FirstDay.html

Enjoy, I sure do ;-).
Ron the 5.0000-inch Tall Evangelist B[ee]

August 5, 2005 11:44 PM Forum: TeleVue

My new NP127

Posted By Ron Bee
http://users.adelphia.net/~ronbee/Toys/NP127-FirstDay.html

Enjoy, I sure do ;-).
Ron the 5.0000-inch Tall Evangelist B[ee]


August 7, 2005 03:42 PM Forum: Solar System Observing

My first photo of Uranus

Posted By Ron Bee
Here's the continuation of my NP127 first light . This morning's seeing was definitely better than yesterday morning. Although I've seen Uranus through my 4-inch TV-102 Light Cup before, this is the first time I've seen it through my 5-inch NP127 APO refractor coupled with my 2-4mm Nagler zoom.

This is my first image of Uranus, ever! So please go kindly with your comments ;-) but all comments good or bad are warmly welcome . Please tell me which one you like, the afocal one (on the right) or the one with 5X Powermate. Alas, no cloud feature or any feature detected :-(.

Enjoy,
Ron B[ee]

August 7, 2005 03:45 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

My first image of Uranus

Posted By Ron Bee
This is my first image of Uranus, ever! So please go kindly with your comments ;-) but all comments good or bad are warmly welcome .

I think I like the afocal image better but I'm not happy with its image scale. Imaging dim planet is no piece of cake with small aperture, short focal length and with the 5X Powermate and especially for a tyro imager like me (just started over a week ago ;-). Because it's so dim, the gain has to be turned up, too much and it's just noise. It is possible to get the 5X Powermate image better. If so, what should I do. [When I say dim, it's relative. Mars is now a lot brighter than Uranus - a heck of a lot. Through the eyepiece Uranus was bright enough to be visually viewed comfortably even at 330x!]

Thanks in advance.
Ron B[ee]

August 10, 2005 07:06 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

How to get more jpeg resolution?

Posted By Ron Bee
It appears that no matter what I choose 640x480 or 320x240 with my ToUcam Pro II, the resulted jpeg file created by Photoshop Elements after Registax/K3CCD tool always shows resolution of only 72dpi. I think this is very low resolution considering that a printer can do 300dpi or 600dpi minimum.

The question is: is it possible to get the final result more than 72dpi?

Thanks,
Ron B[ee]

August 13, 2005 07:14 PM Forum: TeleVue

NP127 focuses on Focusmate

Posted By Ron Bee
A surprise indeed!
http://users.adelphia.net/~ronbee/Toys/NP127-FocusMate.html

Enjoy,
Ron the 5-inch Tall Evangelist B[ee]

August 14, 2005 05:30 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Re: Mars Filters

Posted By Ron Bee
David Hawkins said:

What's the best filter to use when viewing Mars?
How about webcaming Mars?

Well here's the very first picture of Mars I took with my webcam and some filters through my 4-inch TV-102 ;-).
http://users.adelphia.net/~ronbee/Toys/Mars-TypeB-21-Photos.jpg

Ron B[ee]

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