Greetings Earthlings...and Ray L., Bonne et heureuse anne (with an accent on the 'e'). Re: Fri night...YES the event is ON. 'Phone call with details will ...
Last night fellow members Dan, Ray L. and myself had the opportunity to pass on our knowledge of astronomy to the Cornwall Outdoor Club. Dan' presentation to...
Hi everyone, they are predicting clear skies for saturday night, who's interested in doing some viewing? Give me a shout on the land line so I know how many...
Pleiades: Is an open cluster / reflection nebulae about 400 light years away. It is easily seen with the naked eye as a clump of stars in the winter night sky....
hello Heinz. The other night you mentioned a website called Webshots.com for beautiful astro pictures. I tried it and it is great. I even used it as...
Hi Ray, I've been using this site for over 8 years. Find me a site that doesn't use spyware software, pretty much they all do. What it does is that it tracks...
On January 7 when we did a presentation to the Cornwall Outdoor Club some questions were asked, which needed some research, inorder to be able to correctly...
YO...... I've just logged on to the site...and...read Ray L's reply to Heinz's invitation....There is NO record of the invite on my machine??!! Am I " out...
Hello,ALL The "clock" predicts a Verrry Good sky to-night. Let's get out and absorb some astro-photons...interested members check in here soonest. We'll have...
Last night the Backyard Astronomers Club met at our Baltic Corners location for an informal viewing session. The night started out fairly mild then plummeted...
Hi, Just to continue the a/m report, we were surprised with the turn- out at last night's viewing session. While the crowd could never be described as...
Hi Heinz and all, Thank you for the warm welcome. I read messages 222 and 247, and frankly, stunned. Very well done! Do hope to read many more like it in the...
Wow! Sounds like you were doing a Messier marathon from your report. Kind of puts me to shame with what I was doing. I started my viewing around 1530. I...
7.5 hours of astrophotography and impromtu sidewalk session is not a marathon? :-) Personal schedule this winter hasn't given me too many opportunities to...
Hi, I also took benefit of the excellent seeing to take webcam images (avi) of Saturn last Friday and Saturday nights. I used the new Celestron NexImage...
Hi Patrice, If you're brave, you can modify your NexImage for long exposure: http://fdiazhome.tzo.com/Astronomy/Neximage-Mod/index.htm I have a ToUcam Pro...
Hi, Here my first processing result with Registax with aggressive wavelet processing and 107 selected images, on a Newton 10" f4.5 with a combination of 2X and...
Hi guys, look what came out from my night of imagaing. Saturn looks almost as good as the Hubble images. My biggest surprise was the conditions were not so...
Hi Heinz, Great picture. You have more subtle details than mine (with less aggressive treatment). I would be curious to see your original AVI (or part of it)...
Hi Ray, Thanks for the link but that camera was borrowed so... The mod looks easier than the Vesta Pro one. I have two Vesta Pro, so I may try to modify one...
Hi Patrice, unfortunately I have a slow internet connection and the file is over a meg so it will take a long time to pass it on. I'll bring my laptop to the...
Hi Heinz, That IS a great pic of the ringed planet. The detail of the banding on the planet's atmosphere AND on the rings is ...Spectacular!!! I was able to...
