From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: November 7, 2009 10:38:29 AM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] full moon...
Mark;
Why not post it to the Files section, so we can see it at full size? Anything posted to Yahoos idiotic pictures section gets reduced to 480x360 pixel size, which blurs it.
As far as I can tell it doesn't look sharply focussed or you had significant turbulence when it was shot, which makes achieving focus difficult and capturing sharp frames difficult. Some nights here I can't even bring the moon into sharp focus visually with a 25 mm eyepiece at prime focus on the C8. But I live under the Jet Stream and some nights I am surrounded by a loop of it on all 3 sides.
Also, a general question to the group.
I'm getting really fed up with Yahoo for hosting the Astro IIDC group. If you've ever used the search engine here, it's absolutely terrible at finding previous articles regardless of how you set up the search query. Luckily I keep a copy of most of me "important" FAQ type e-mails to the group so that I can flip through by date to find the original posted onto the group and then refer you back to the original thread.
So I'm wondering what people think about possibly moving to another group host, like Google groups for example? I have not spent any time looking into the pros and cons of other hosting services yet, but I will if people feel that Yahoo is just sucking too much.
Thanks in advance for your opinion...
Milton J. Aupperle
On 7-Nov-09, at 10:08 AM, Mark Gaffney wrote:
Hi, Here`s a shot taken on the 5th November (full moon) with my PGR
Scorpion 1628 x1236 pixel mono camera;
I`m wondering am I slightly out of focus, or can the haziness be
accounted for by the light of the full moon?