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...
HEY...Heinz, et al., We finally made the list(a/m), and after only 4 years of trying....it must have been your "diplomatic" method, Heinz. A big WELL DONE !! ...
Hello, Ray, The time indicated on the date/time line on the address block , was 12:21 as I recall. Right now it is 5:04 p.m., and the time indicated on the...
Welcome to a new member. Hope to meet you at our next meeting which should be the last Wednesday of the month ie, Feb 23/05. Are you from Cornwall or...
Heinz, If you want to copy the file on a disk I could give it to Patrice when I see him at Orion in Valleyfield. By the way your picture of Saturn is fantastic...
Hello everyone, Catching up on my email. Here are some pictures of the observers on January 31 at Walter in Dundee. Guess who had the smallest scope? Ray ......
Finally I think I got it right. I created a sub album in the photo section of Ray Lalonde sub section Observers Jan 31 05. Hope you can see them now. Ray...
Hey Ray fantastic picture, I really like the new eye piece case, or is it really a guitar? Hugh picture too, only took me 17 mins to download. Heinz ... ...
Hi eveybody, last month's member photos that were presented at the February meeting, have been posted. Yours truely has 3 of them listed there, if you wish to...
Just wanted to remind everybody that our monthly meeting is this Wednesday at the RCAF club on Water Street in Cornwall at 1700 hrs/5pm. This also co-insides...
Hi Ray L., I just today looked at the a/m pics. They don't LOOK like shots taken in Ariz....AND who is the frozen duck beside the imitation OAK folding...