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Posts Made By: Cal Sandfort

February 27, 2005 07:43 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

Posted By Cal Sandfort
This object just barely rises above the muck of my local light pollution but I still thought I'd give it a try.

AP155/7, ST-10 and 6nm H-alpha filter. Six, fifteen minute frames.

Cal

March 5, 2005 11:38 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M1 - Crab Nebula

Posted By Cal Sandfort
I thought I'd give this object a try last night.

LRGB = 38:17:17:17 min. RGB binned 2x2.

Cal

Edit: I redid my image for star color, but then cropped most of them out shocked , and I think the nebula color is better. I did lose a little sharpness but I think this version is better

March 14, 2005 03:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Great images

Posted By Cal Sandfort
I took a quick trip last week and returned to a couple hundred messages and a lot of images. Too many to respond to but I'd like to say they are all "GREAT".

Nice job everyone - Cal

May 11, 2005 02:12 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Wilson's Warbler

Posted By Cal Sandfort
I've been too busy for any real photography but I have been taking my camera with me when I walk to the mailbox. There are a lot of migrants moving through!!

Canon MKII, 300mm F/2.8 and 1.4x TC.

Cal

June 23, 2005 09:09 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Prairie Falcon

Posted By Cal Sandfort
I got a chance to get out and shoot the other day. It has been so long I think I forgot how.

Canon MKII, 300mm f/2.8 and 2X extender.

Cal

December 1, 2005 03:57 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Great shots!!

Posted By Cal Sandfort
I recently returned to the states after an extended trip and have been enjoying all the fine photos. It seems like the quality of the shots on this forum just keep getting better. I didn't have internet for over 2 months. At first it didn't bother me but after awhile I started feeling like a caveman. I'll try to get some photos processed and posted but for now here's one of a juvenile male Gyrfalcon taken at Scoresbysund, east Greenland.

Great shots everyone - Cal

December 2, 2005 05:18 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Rock Ptarmigan

Posted By Cal Sandfort
An adult male with a little summer plumage left around the neck in the back and an adult female (I think) in complete winter plumage in the front. The black stripe from the beak to behind the eye is the field mark. Canon MKII and 300mm f/2.8 lens.

Cal

December 27, 2005 03:59 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Mexican Jay

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Taken at Chiricahua National Monument, southeast Arizona. My wife noticed the jays in an empty campground so I parked and asked her to get out of the pickup, knowing full well what was going to happen, and hold up a Cheeto to see if the jay would come closer so I could get a picture. It took a millisecond before about forty jays mobbed her and ripped the Cheeto from her flailing hand. Price of gas to get from Idaho to Arizona - A LOT; Cost to get into the Park - 10 bucks; the look on her face when she realized she had been set up - PRICELESS!!! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Seriously, this monument was the best birding spots I have been to in a long time.

Canon MKII + 300mm f /2.8. I'm not crazy about the background but I didn't spend a lot of time on these birds.

Cal

January 2, 2006 06:20 AM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Juvenile Ring-billed Gull (I think)

Posted By Cal Sandfort
We've been cloudy and raining for a long time but I had to get out and shoot something. I went to the local wheat fields looking for Snow Buntings, the clouds parted and a flock of gulls passed by, and I ended up with this.

Canon MKII + 300/2.8 hand held.

Cal

January 5, 2006 09:39 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

IC405 - Flaming Star nebula

Posted By Cal Sandfort
I've been clouded out for weeks but had clear skies with lousy seeing last night. I prefer Ha images but decided to grab some color data just before the meridian flip. Unfortunately, I saturated some stars in the color data causing reduced star color. Why don't I just stick with Ha? sad

Tak FSQ-106 and SBIG ST-10.
HaRGB=120(1x1):20:20:20(2x2) min.

Cal

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