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Posts Made By: Stephen Fugardi

February 15, 2007 03:08 AM Forum: Home Observatories

Observatory 2 is UP!

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Ivan, Congradulations! Your new observatory looks great and seems to have plenty of room inside. Hope you get plenty of clear nights to fully appreciate your hard work!

Regards,
Steve

February 20, 2007 05:00 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

meeting vénus-moon in Languedoc French Riviera

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Barbel, beautiful shot! From here in the US, the moon was more directly overhead of Venus. It is interesting how different parts of the world can view the conjunction at different angles in the sky. Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

February 20, 2007 05:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn - Feb. 6th 2007

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Ron, awesome Saturn! Looks like you used a 14" on this one. For only the 2nd time out with the Toucam, your image is excellent. Good colors and cloud banding. Maybe try stacking a few hundred more frames to help smooth out some of the graininess. Thanks for posting!

Regards,
Steve

February 21, 2007 04:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn 2/20

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Jim, there is nice detail in your image if you can get the Toucam settings optimized. My best settings so far with my C11/2.5x barlow were: 10fps, 1/25sec, 50% Br, 35% Gam, 100% Sat, 38% Gain, Color on set to Auto. I have seen this bluish color if the frame rate or gamma is set too high or if the color is set to manual and the sliders are way out. What settings did you use? For saving up to 6 default webcam sttings and fine tuning during imaging I use freeware http://www.burri-web.org/bm98/soft/wcctrl/screens.htm The collimation of your scope seems excellent based on the sharpness of the image. That's the part I continue to struggle with. Hope this helps! Please keep posting

Regards,
Steve

February 23, 2007 11:23 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn with C11

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
John, Excellent Saturn! The rings and cloud bands are nicely detailed. What Toucam settings did you use? Thanks for posting it!

Regards,
Steve

February 24, 2007 01:06 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn 02/22 My Best

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Chris, Absolutely incredible image!!! Surface details are stunning. Thank you for posting it

Regards,
Steve

February 24, 2007 01:16 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn from WSP 2007

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
John, Awesome shot! You must have had a decent break in the bad seeing to capture this beauty. Transporting a 16" scope must have been a bit of an adventure but worth it. I haven't seen too many people using the SKYnyx2-1C camera yet, but your results look great so far. Thanks for posting!

Regards,
Steve

March 6, 2007 05:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

First Venus this year

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Richard, Awesome cloud detail! You must have had some good seeing. I tried using a 2.5X barlow with my C11 on Venus 10days ago in bad seeing and captured 1Gig of distorted frames. I couldn't even find a single decent reference frame! Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

March 11, 2007 12:56 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Another Saturn from WSP 2007

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
John, Absolutely amazing shot! You can actually see Saturn's globe through the Cassini Division and C-ring. Thank you for posting that beauty

Regards,
Steve

March 19, 2007 10:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter and Io, 14th March 2007

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Anthony, Absolutely huge & incredibly detailed image! Thank you

Regards,
Steve

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