Posts Made By: Paul McCarl

Very Nice, Andrew.

Keep em coming!

Paul McCarl

If I could just find that one consistently, it would be next on my list. I tried on Monday night, but the Moon said no.

Nice shot.

Paul

Tom,

This was shotwith the Zenitar 16mm and a canon Ellan IIe:

http://home.attbi.com/~mmccarl/astronomy/16mm_milkyway.JPG

I really like the lens with my D60, I need it due to the 1.6x multiplication factor due to the APS sized chip. I am told that stopping down the lens a bit would have cleaned up some of the coma seen in the picture.

Paul

Hi Chris,

I believe that a universal/pentax screw mount T-ring should fit. Also referred to as m42 mount.

Paul

Unless I am way off base, doesn't SBIG have some kind of lan interface for one of there cameras? I am sure I read about it on their site once upon a time.

On the other hand, I shoot with a D60 and a timer remote controller. The D60 is a really great digital SLR and a totally self contained one shot collor astrocam. The nifty little timer remote costs a premium of $150+, but now I focus, frame and setup the remote to shoot a sequence of x number shots of however many minutes I want and then go back inside and watch TV and get warm again. I don't know that it is exactly point and shoot, but for under $2500 for a 3072 x 2048 pixel camera with <6 micron pixels has to rate up there.

Canon has been making this CMOS sensor line of cameras for only two years or so and they are up to an 11 million pixel sensor with awesome low light performance. I look forward to see what the future has in store.

Paul

A theater supply company can sell you a red gel large enough to cover your screen. Just look in the yellow pages.

Paul

There is more here than meets the eye. This has some levels and curves adjustments in photoshop. Unfortunately, the low quality JPEG compression makes it hard to recover everything that is there.

Paul

Sorry to hear that. My first LXD55 had the same kind of problems. While you are in there, make sure that the gear set screws are tight. Fortunately, it is a simple repair.

Looks like clear skies tonight, too bad the moon is up.

Paul