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tricks46
 Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 12:09 pm EST (Read 7548 times)  
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Hello. Started receiving enough parts to connect the Sony A300 DSLR to the TV127is refractor. This might not look like much but to me it is great. I took a single 60 second image under bad conditions of the m42 area. It is reduced from 3800 pix wide to 1000 to show the FOV. I see good things in the future as the need comes up for this setup.


Also on the 10th a full Wolf Moon was coming up so I switched the A300 to a 100/300 zoom on a tripod. So many things can be done.


Have a nice day!

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 Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 07:50 pm EST  
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MIke -

Those are BOTH nice photos! I personally believe my foray into astro-imaging will probably be through a DSLR. The CCD cameras that are worth anything are far more expensive and although they may provide superior results, seem to me to be something for intermediate and advanced astro-imagers, and not for the beginner. We've got several members in the club who are doing their own imaging now, and I think it's a great trend.

Thanks for sharing these photos!


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 Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 11:13 pm EST  
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Great pictures Mike.

Just curious if you used a filter on the moon shot. I took some moon pictures too and the moonlight on the surrounding clouds created a nice effect but the brightness of the moon washed out the moon detail. I didn't have much time to set up a tripod so I just snapped them in the auto mode with the flash turned off.


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 Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 12:15 pm EST  
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Great pictures Mike.

Just curious if you used a filter on the moon shot. I took some moon pictures too and the moonlight on the surrounding clouds created a nice effect but the brightness of the moon washed out the moon detail. I didn't have much time to set up a tripod so I just snapped them in the auto mode with the flash turned off.



No filter. Exposed the many images to have a good moon with no wash out and then adjusted the background in PS to show detail.
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 Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 12:25 pm EST  
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Hello. Thought I would share this update. Took 5x2 minute exposues last night of the same area. It shows problems with chip adjustmen on the right side and noise. Needs more information to solve having to push too much but I really like the DSLR shots. These were unguided.


Thanks, Mike H.


 
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 Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 08:14 pm EST  
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Are you just teasing us Mike? Were is the image man! LOL


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 Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 08:18 pm EST  
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O-WOW MAN! Laughing Out Loud I'll be back


 
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 Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 09:25 pm EST  
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OK Let's try it again.


If you have a wide screen of 1650 pix this will fit across only at this link
http://fototime.com/8CB2252F4DB313F/orig.jpg
This looks a bit blue but I didn't color adjust. The camera is strong on the blue side and wearkr on the red.
Thanks, Mike H.


 
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 Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 10:25 pm EST  
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WOW! Mike, that is a wonderful image and only 10min of data. Eek!


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 Saturday, January 24 2009 @ 10:17 pm EST  
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Mike,

Did you say you took those through the Hubble?

Great work.


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 Sunday, January 25 2009 @ 11:12 am EST  
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Hello
I added 32 minutes of information to the last image making a total of 42 minutes. The faint detail is starting to show and fill in the once empty sky. Once again I didn't adjust the color rather let the camera decide. This information also increases the existing problems whick will need to be worked on in the future.



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 Sunday, January 25 2009 @ 11:51 am EST  
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Hi Mike -

Nice work again! This last image is definitely starting to bring out the detail. What are you using for software to do your procssing? Thanks!


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 Sunday, January 25 2009 @ 08:19 pm EST  
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Hi Mike -

Nice work again! This last image is definitely starting to bring out the detail. What are you using for software to do your procssing? Thanks!



Dave. I have for the past couple of week been using a program called DeepSkyStacker. I don't yet know how to use this so I am sure there are lots of things I could have done. My software for the sbig cameras doesn't use RAW and the SONY only has JPG and RAW. This is a freeware and seems to work good considering the amount of information I am putting into one image.
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