Hope you have a good one guys, i've got another layer of smoke haze drifting in so thats put paid to any thoughts I had about tonight.
I had a wee session last night but the seeing was woeful, Orion with the naked eye was barely visible. Still it was great to get out and have a look around for a while.
We missed out for a public viewing night on Friday evening, and after that we had it all planned for Saturday to do it all again. Dang. Clouds again.
Tonight...... Stargard... hopefully..... shhhh... the Gods will hear us.....
You should come out - you can't be that far away from The Oaks?
I am busting to come to one of your nights...........
But tonight I babysit.........oh well maybe the next one will work in my favor
look forward to catching up soon
John
PS, I'm only a couple of k's out so I wouldn't have to travel to far!!
Well.. it was GREAT out at Stargard tonight. Very nice sky until the moon came up at around 1:00am.
Anyway John - we'll be at the MAS forest field next weekend on Friday & Saturday nights (I'll camp o'nite Saturday) 4k's into Belanglo State Forest if you're interested. PM me for details if you'd like to come. A couple of weeks ago we were down there and th eskies were the darkest I've seen in months if not years. It was a magic night.
i bet it was a great night chris! I was in my yard viewing and the seeing at about 10pm was superb!!! it was really a perfect night.
my collimation was spot on, my alignment was great and the seeing was the best i had seen for a long time.... I need a camera that can take longer exposures tho and at 16 secs the lpi is full of red hot pixels (and i mean full).
on a positive imaging note, cheryl has given me the go-ahead on a dslr. i am thinking a 350d or maybe go a nikon. not sure yet
now thats interesting! you are gunna have to show us when its done.
I've heard of it being done before, yes. It's a bit of a fiddle but. The CCD has to sit right on the old film plane behind the shutter....
Here's a piccy from Paul (1ponders) where a bloke has taken an old Pentax and stuffed a ToUcam into it if all else fails. At least this way you can use proper lenses for wide-field.
It's actually from a book: "Digital Astrophotography - The State of the Art" by David Ratledge (Ed) from Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series, published by Springer
PS - Sorry for hijacking your thread Harb... My bad.
...but twas cloudy so twas called off.
