Old 04-09-2009, 11:26 AM
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I have just recently completed building myself a couple of light boxes and I am very pleased with the results. If anyone is interested in me building one for them, PM me and I can discuss price etc, one thing is for sure, they are going to be at least a third of the price of imported ones, and IMHO work just as well. The two attached images will give you some sort of idea of my construction. My method of construction allowes the light box to fit over the front of the telescope/dew shield, much like a cover so one does not need to balance it on the scope.
I use a 12v lighter type connector for the power, and each LED is rated at between 6000mcd and 12000mcd depending on the size of the box required.
If interested please feel free to ask any questions.
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Pete ,no sorry mate ,can you please resend me your e-mail, just got my laptop rebuilt forgot to save all my addresses.

Cheers Daniel.
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Old 13-01-2010, 02:16 PM
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Just for info, here are a couple of shots of the box I built for my Takahashi 130F.
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Received the light box, great work and thanks again Pete.

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Old 13-01-2010, 08:22 PM
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My pleasure Daniel.
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Hi Peter,

Please quote me on one of these. I have the same 8" RC as Paul Haese
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Old 15-01-2010, 07:21 PM
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Hi Steve, as you live in Adelaide, you wont have to pay freight, that is a plus. I have PM'd you
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Thanks Pete
Received the Light box.... looking forward to using it.
Great service
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For all those who use a light poloution filter such as the sls clip, I use one fo my flats taken with this box, as a custom white balance for taking shots and it works a treat, it's not perfect but it's better than nothing.

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Mine arrived safe and sound today Peter.
Thanks so much.
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My Pleasure. Enjoy..
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For those interested, I am still building lightboxes....
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Just for information, I will be away at the Snake Valley Astro Camp from Friday 12th March until Tuesday 16th March.
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i just recieved my light box from Peter and i have got to say it works very well and is very well made,great service
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They are very good aren't they.
I'm saving up to buy one for my RC8.
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I am glad to be of assistance. Getting to be a bit of an old hand at building them now, I think I have built around 40 odd up to this point.
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Can somebody tell me what are you all doing with light boxes???
Did I miss anything?
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Light boxes are used in Astro imaging to take Flat frames.
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This is a brief description of what flat frames are all about.

Flat frames are essential if the faintest parts of a target are to be detected. The basic concept is to point the system to a uniformly illuminated light source and take an exposure. The resultant exposure will capture all of the imperfections in the system - vignetting, dust on the optical surfaces, off-axis optics and other disturbances.

The imperfections etc are then removed in stacking the flats with the other frames. A pretty rough explanation but I think you should get the general gist.

Some people use a white T shirt the next day to achieve this, but it has its limitations. It is much better to take the flats at the same time as the primary image as nothing in the image train should be changed before taking flats. You can then move onto the next image, move your focuser etc without hassles as you already have flats prepared for that particular image.
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