I will be hoping to get together some passable Joop shots and maybe a widefield for submission if the weather holds out tonight. So that's one more, hopefully.
Chris... In the final 3 or 4 days, if you still do not have enough images, would it be possible for people who've already submitted an image to perhaps add another? I don't know about everyone else, but for me, submitting a single image was incredibly difficult as I had so many to chose from...
I am also currently (as in right now) trying to process about 5gb of solar eclipse HD video from Hangzhou China, into images to try and come up with a 2009 total solar eclipse shot, so keep the fingers crossed, its my first time...
Thanks Leon, and everyone else too. It's starting to take rough shape at this stage. Page positioning is still waaayyy open, so I won't know what side the insert images fall on until near completion.
As far as image numbers go, I'll be including an extended image set over two pages from some of our country's top imagers, and these will be accompanied by a longer technique story. Should be of great benefit to us all. Can't wait to see the final result!
If we do come up short, I'll resort to asking people for a second image, but at this stage I'm hoping that those who committed themselves in the original quantification thread will come forward and submit some work before the closing date.
It is a home made computer controlled camera and mount. The camera is cooled by a PID temperature controlled Peltier fridge (home built). It looks complicated but it is even worse now as I control the temperature of the lens so focus does not change over a night of imaging.I used my knowledge of overclocking computers to design the fridge.
It does not emit any rays apart from weak IR. It is designed to collect and record very weak photon streams from things far away.
Bert - I knew it.. An overclocking junkie!! Nobody else would have that many computer heat sinks and peltiers to cool a camera!
Whats next? dual stage phase change setup cooling the sensor to -60°c for that extra few MHz? lol!!
Ahh.. the old overclocking days.. Damn that was fun stuff until you go and fry a couple of really nice CPU's or graphics cards... then it just gets expensive... (not to mention $2k worth of evaporative phase change cooler emitting 45~50dB just to keep the CPU frosty! hahaha
Alex I used to have an 'overclocked' 1979 LTD. Two tonne of loungeroom on wheels powered with a 5.9 litre balanced mill that could get from zero to 100K in less than six seconds. I never had it to full speed. On the Newcastle expressway I got it to 240k and then I backed off. I figured that when you are going faster than a flying Cessna on the ground you are asking for trouble.
All heatsinks on the fridge are the newer type of heatpipe versions. Wish we had them in the overclocking days.
