From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: September 21, 2010 9:28:05 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] First Uranus image ever


Lovely turquoise dot there Jim! 8^) I hope your Jupiter pictures turn out well. I sat out from 11 to 2:15 - I was about to pack it in but then the seeing settled suddenly around 1:45 to the best I've seen in quite some time (I hate to say that until I process the data, but it the detail did seem very sharp.) I was feeling like Dorothy on her return from Kansas "... and I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again..."


cheers,

Alan



On Sep 21, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Jim Chung wrote:

This is the first time I have ever managed to image Uranus. It is so
faint that I usually have trouble actually finding it visually so that
I can center it on the ccd. This morning is was quite close to
Jupiter which made it easier to find.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/Uranus.jpg

Seeing was quite good so Jupiter image to follow.

Milton, PGR replied to me and apparently some Flea2s do not come with
the PGR logo and some earlier Flea2s might be down on sensitivity. I
supplied them the s/n for them to verify this. I tried the Flea2
again this morning an ensured the same gamma was used as with my Flea,
significantly less sensitive.

Jim