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Originally Posted by Dennis
Hi Alexander
PS – I know you are intimately familiar with much of the above re film photography, but I have included my experiences for those readers who will never experience film astro photography, as the digital age is well and truly here.
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Hi Dennis,
When this years comet rekindled my interest and I started to dabble with the DSI Pro, then started to stack a few images etc. my Wife said, THAT IS CHEATING.
I remember sitting on top of a 6 foot stepladder, eyeballing the dim star in the OAG, trying to see if I have to push the dome a bit more, in the process nearly falling of the stepladder. Or dozing of after a hard days work and spoiling 30 min of guiding. Hmmmm, was that the time when we were True AMATEURS ??? Couldn't purchase equipment we wanted here, importing was out of the questions for most of us. So we looked at the pictures in the astro magazines and tried to make them ourselfs.
Only looked at a stack of old black/white photos with some visitors the other day and they couldn't believe that we did things like that 30 odd years ago. Couldn't get over how sharp and clear the images were with home made equipment and without automatic guiding
Anyway, nice to see that there still are some around who have done it the old way.