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Old 05-09-2006, 08:57 AM
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M42 5th Sept.
The little modded toucam is starting to strut her stuff woohooo!

C'mon Ken (Ballarat Dragons)....Hurry up & stoke yours up mate!?

Here's my new 'camera' BTW

LE modified toUcam/EQ5
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Old 05-09-2006, 09:05 AM
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Nice widefield there, asi! What's it doing inside the tube (3rd pic)?
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Old 05-09-2006, 09:11 AM
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Yeah very nice M42, you captured great colour there John !!!
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:01 PM
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Thats his dew shield Mike,

Thats some great work their Asi...fine job imaging a DSO with that equipment.
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Old 05-09-2006, 12:12 PM
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you should see what he does with a 29 dollar DSE scope!
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Old 05-09-2006, 02:01 PM
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Yep nice work there. Thats a very effective dewshield, should keep it dry on the dampest of nights.
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Old 05-09-2006, 03:32 PM
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Thanks guys.

I won't be shooting through the C9.25 with the toucam so I made this contraption to take its place on the EQ5 rather than piggy back it. Much more convenient. Plus this arrangement is easy to carry in & out without breakdown.

So yup, its a dew shield as well as stray light baffle & when I want to take darks I just pop on the original dust cap.

Its made from a 4.5" reflector tube (cut down to 350mm) that become redundant sometime back.

It has the C9.25 finder on it too.
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Nice work john, great ingenuity and making the most of the equipment available to you.
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Old 05-09-2006, 03:37 PM
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Houghy, even I draw the line at using a DSE 29 bucker but I have taken some very nice moon pics thru a 60mm bushmaster zooooom refractor & the trusty kodak easyshare!
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Old 05-09-2006, 03:39 PM
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great stuff for a little webcam hey!

theres a little program that'll take those halos away fromthe stars ya know
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Old 05-09-2006, 03:55 PM
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Yeah, when I find one that takes the halo's away without damaging the actual captured nebula, it will be good. Until then we'll just have to put up with halo's

Hotpixels worked ok, but the tradeoff was overall blurryness of the shot..Whats the halo removing proggy your thinking of Ving ?
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i cant get on to the site atm, but its on the astrosurf.com site...
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loreal...

see if it does any good.

http://www.astrosurf.com/hfosaf/uk/tdownload.htm#loreal

its not the one i was thinking of but well... my memory is poor.
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Thanks mate.
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Houghy, even I draw the line at using a DSE 29 bucker but I have taken some very nice moon pics thru a 60mm bushmaster zooooom refractor & the trusty kodak easyshare!
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great work maestro!

are you going to try colour raw mode. i have found it very tight on stars
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Extremely tempted Dave, but I don't wanna stuff your camera up!?
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C'mon Ken (Ballarat Dragons)....Hurry up & stoke yours up mate!?
It has been cloudy ever since I put my Toucam lens system together.
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loreal...

see if it does any good.

http://www.astrosurf.com/hfosaf/uk/tdownload.htm#loreal

its not the one i was thinking of but well... my memory is poor.
That program will fix up all my old images!!!! Thanks Vingo.

But does anyone know a link to that site in English? and I can't seem to download the program itself, just the instructions on how to use the program
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That program will fix up all my old images!!!! Thanks Vingo.

But does anyone know a link to that site in English? and I can't seem to download the program itself, just the instructions on how to use the program
Yup, I had the same problem...theres no actual download for it; at that link in any case?

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