STX keyhole

[Peter Ward]

Ye gods! ...a (semi) clear night in Sydney. :)

Still testing the new rig...I suspect I have a few problems to resolve: spiderwebs in the OTA baffle, the field flattener probably needs a good clean, camera mounting orthogonality (its a large chip) needs to be nailed....and sadly, still no filters....hence luminance only (thin cloud wandered through as well)

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery48.html

[sheeny]

Page is coming up but no picture... is it just me not holding my tongue right?

Al.

[Kevnool]

No pic here either.
Cheers Kev.

[Bassnut]

its a little white square with a red cross in it, umm, like a keyhole.

[Screwdriverone]

Yup, still busted Peter,

Place holder, but no picture shows up

The picture seems to be in the right place according to the link, but I can only view it when I download it from the hyper link and do a right click save as, after I navigate to the parent directory which is http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/images/nb/

The picture Peter is referring to is etaSTxRC20.jpg (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/images/nb/etaSTxRC20.jpg) in that directory.

Very nice by the way, just hard to find ;)

Cheers

Chris

[DavidU]

Works well here.
Nice detail !

[Garyh]

yeah Peter, nice pinpoint stars in the center. That chip sure covers some estate there at that FL. Will be extra nice when you square things up. That would be a fiddly and lengthy procedure I suspect!
cheers Gary

[AlexN]

Pretty damned awesome FOV given the focal length of the scope.. The joys of CCD Real Estate! :)

Image looks the goods.. Obviously a work in progress, as is the setup... No doubt you'll get it sorted... Given your setup, I would imagine the only ways to organise CCD orthogonality would be to shim up the threaded connectors yes?

I bet it was nice to have some fresh data... We've all been a little starved for clear skies of late..

[Peter Ward]

Doh! sorry...saved the page incorrectly to the server. The link should be fine now if you refresh the page.

Yep...it's a nice chip to be sure, but with CFWX fitted its something of a behemoth...and pushes the corrected field of the RC....infact I don't think it's fully corrected (humm....I wonder if the missus would notice the change to a 16"RC with 100mm FFC....)

[Paul Haese]

The page is working but the image not loading. Same problem as before.

[kinetic]

works fine Peter, absolutely stunning!

Steve

[telecasterguru]

Peter,

I agree that the image is wonderful.

Frank

[Peter Ward]

Hummm just re-tested the page...the links seems good...so long as you re-fresh or re-load the page.

a picture of the rig now attached...

[AlexN]

Holy Crap Its Huge! :)

That would look about as silly in your AP155 as my 8300 setup looks in my 80/480.. :)

As for the missus.. Try and sneak it past her I reckon... The 16" would be a nice new toy!! Only problem I can foresee is the day that the truck rocks up to drop off a massive shipping crate, The Mrs may wonder "Whats inside the box dear?" At which point, You'd likely be dead..

:)

[Paul Haese]

I have refreshed and even reloaded IE. Allyour other pages come up fine but this one has a fault somewhere.

As for the rig, man that filter wheel is a big sucker.

[Peter Ward]

Got me tossed. The code looks good. Works on my PC's & Mac. Anyone else having the same problem?

[multiweb]

Yes I did too. It won't open in PS, or IE7/8 - the JPG header is truncated. Some program will open it but it's not consistent across the board. You need to delete the file on the server then reload it then re-save it as a JPEG file. Don't overwrite the old one. Just delete it first.

[mithrandir]

Nope. It has worked fine every time I've tried it from the office in Firefox, starting before anyone complained and even doing forced reloads.

[Peter Ward]

I've redone the page with a hyperlink to the hi-res version.

What has me tossed is why some users report no problems, and for others the page's image does not load. :shrug:

[Gama]

Link Works OK for me..

Really nice image Peter.
These bigger land grabbing sensors, are huge.
The camera looks and images beautifully, and i hear you need a pilots license to be able use all its goodies inside :P.

Theo

[Hagar]

Great looking image Peter. I can't wait to see what you come up with when you get some filters. I love the resolution of the tiny stars around Eta Carina itself.

Magic.

[Paul Haese]

Working now Peter. The reload must have cleared the issue. Most likely some code was a little corrupted.

Now for the image. Wow huge real estate and very smooth. I bet you are champing at the bit to get the filters.

[Peter Ward]

:lol: Nah, but I must admit I have not checked the web interface yet....

[strongmanmike]

Doesn't that big square shape look good! :thumbsup:

I can see the first image, nice but the higher res version won't load..?

Mike

[Peter Ward]

Yep..is cool. :)


I think I have tracked down the problem...my son has used up my 50G monthly allocation, and Telstra is now "shaping"....a BS phrase for clipping
my data packets, until the end of the month....

The link is now to a rather larger file (1.5meg 2000x 3000 odd pixels)

[Ric]

A wonderful image Peter, the Hi-res is awesome.