Posts Made By: Ron Bee

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!@#$%^&*, I bought my NP127 too soon :-(, or perhaps not, being that it's mighty 5-inch tall ... ;-).

If anyone is sitting on the fence wondering about getting the Tele Vue TV-102 or NP-101 4-incher, why this could be your scholastic opportunity ;-)!

Being a 4-inch Tall Evangelist and all, I've got to have that book in my collection (since I have Mallas and O'Meara books for 4-inchers already) :bangbangbang:. Now let's see how I would scheme this? Say, sell my TV-102 between now and year end (after Mars opposition) and get the TV-76 ;-), ha! Oops, alas, the author made no observation from the TV-76 3-incher :-( :-( sigh... :-(. For that I'll have to wait for Florian's Messier book ;-).

Ron the 4-inch Tall Evangelist B[ee]

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!@#$%^&*, I bought my NP127 too soon :-(, or perhaps not, being that it's mighty 5-inch tall ... ;-).

If anyone is sitting on the fence wondering about getting the Tele Vue TV-102 or NP-101 4-incher, why this could be your scholastic opportunity ;-)!

Being a 4-inch Tall Evangelist and all, I've got to have that book in my collection (since I have Mallas and O'Meara books for 4-inchers already) :bangbangbang:. Now let's see how I would scheme this? Say, sell my TV-102 between now and year end (after Mars opposition) and get the TV-76 ;-), ha! Oops, alas, the author made no observation from the TV-76 3-incher :-( :-( sigh... :-(. For that I'll have to wait for Florian's Messier book ;-) for 3-inchers ;-).

Ron the 4-inch Tall Evangelist B[ee]

Well, at the least the color is getting better ;-).


Ron B[ee]

It was really tough doing an 2X resampling this time because I had tried to "overhaul" my SP mount drive gear and something is not quite right and I seem to be having alignment problem with resampling . Registax kept giving me Mars with "tail" :-( no matter what I did and I played with so many options and settings and alignment boxes. 1X mode was no problem however. K3CCD also gave me "tail" until I tried to place Mars at the lower left hand corner of the working area box and using large working area! It was tortuously difficult and I almost gave up ;-). I'm still not happy with the "ring" though :-(.

Visually, I was so surprised to have found it really tough to see the separation between Sinus Sabaeus and Mare Serpentis (Deucalionis Regio) and I'm not sure why because I recalled it being quite easy in 2003. Also, Dawes' "Fork Bay" (Sinus Meridiani) was not seen visually and as you can see it was tough photographically as well for my small aperture but I'm glad the resampling showed that the 5-inch aperture of the NP127 could resolve it with Mars only at 16.7". In 2003, I couldn't visually resolve Dawes' "Fork Bay" with my TV-102 until Mars was 22" in size!

Ron B[ee]

It was really tough doing an 2X resampling this time because I had tried to "overhaul" my SP mount drive gear and something is not quite right and I seem to be having alignment problem with resampling . Registax kept giving me Mars with "tail" :-( no matter what I did and I played with so many options and settings and alignment boxes. 1X mode was no problem however. K3CCD also gave me "tail" until I tried to place Mars at the lower left hand corner of the working area box and using large working area! It was tortuously difficult and I almost gave up ;-).

Visually, I was so surprised to have found it really tough to see the separation between Sinus Sabaeus and Mare Serpentis (Deucalionis Regio) and I'm not sure why because I recalled it being quite easy in 2003. Also, Dawes' "Fork Bay" (Sinus Meridiani) was not seen visually and as you can see it was tough photographically as well for my small aperture but I'm glad the resampling showed that the 5-inch aperture of the NP127 could resolve it with Mars only at 16.7". In 2003, I couldn't visually resolve Dawes' "Fork Bay" with my TV-102 until Mars was 22" in size!

Ron B[ee]

Having dove into planetary imaging recently, I'm looking forward to next year getting my feet wet in deep sky imaging after Mars Madness ;-).

Having read about the recent thread, why would someone want to get the ToUcam modified for long exposure instead of getting the Meade DSI Pro? What are the advantages or disadvantages (assuming you don't yet own a ToUcam)?

Thanks,
Ron B[ee]

...and who says Tele Vue Mars Type B ain't useful on anything other than Mars ;-). So here's a Halloween Saturn we can scare the kids and umm maybe growups too during this Halloween season. Note the eerie glow here and there. Now if my Light Cup can figure how to light a candle inside the globe ;-).

Enjoy,
Ron B[ee]

...and who says Tele Vue Mars Type B ain't useful on anything other than Mars ;-). So here's a Halloween Saturn we can scare the kids and umm maybe growups too during this Halloween season. Note the eerie glow here and there. Now if my Light Cup can figure how to light a candle inside the globe ;-).

Enjoy,
Ron B[ee]
PS - Actually with turbulent seeing, the filter helped the view visually with details by somewhat stabilizing the seeing.

This is the first image I got to try my new Tele Vue 2X Barlow in concert with my 5X Powermate for a whopping 10X focal length of my NP127 at effective f/52! Here's the result. Comments on how to improve the image is warmly welcome.

Enjoy,
Ron B[ee]

This is the first image I got to try my new Tele Vue 2X Barlow in concert with my 5X Powermate for a whopping 10X focal length of my NP127 at effective f/52! Focusing was very painful; guessing at focus was more like it :-(.

Visually, Mars at 200x was quite smaller than
the 50% resize image.

Enjoy,
Ron B[ee]