From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: January 16, 2006 12:19:15 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: M27

Thanks Tim. I think I've forgotten how to take new images. I've set up my scope two times since mid November. Whoever decided to build a city on the eastern shores of the Great Lakes must have been nuts  (and certainly not an astronomer).

Alan

On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Tim wrote:

Alan:

STUNNING!  Congratulations!

-Tim.

P.S.  It's CLEAR in LA today, and should be tonight (but "cold").  I've got MLK day off, and 

am going to work on my scopes/cameras and try to take advantage of that tonight!

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Friedman" <alan@g...> wrote:

>

> I uploaded an image I found recently that I had not processed from the summer. This 

was 

> captured through my 4.1" refractor piggybacked on my 10" mak from the dark skies of 

the 

> Black Forest Star Party in PA.

> 

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/m27BFSP2005.jpg

> 

> I had captured one unfiltered stream when the clouds rolled in. I didn't think there was 

> enough signal collected - but looking at the file last week I saw that the stream 

contained 

> 40 frames at 30 seconds each. This was enough to create a decent luminance image. 

The 

> color comes courtesy of a fellow Buffalo club member's CCD image.

> 

> Jon - I would second Milton's suggestion to choose the 21AF04 over the first generation 

> 21F04 camera. The imaging improvements were substantial and the 30 second 

exposure 

> will allow you to experiment with some deep sky imaging (though I think the Point Grey 

> cameras with their longer exposure times would be better suited to this.) 

> 

> Alan

>

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