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- Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:04 pm
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Battery pack
- Replies: 16
- Views: 103
Re: Battery pack
Yes Jerry, the VW has battery power!
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:25 am
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: NGC7000 Sellafane VS Bristol
- Replies: 1
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NGC7000 Sellafane VS Bristol
The first Ha image from Bristol, is about 40 minutes (2 min subs) with a modded Canon Rebel with 180mm Nikon lens on a Skyguider Pro. The second image from Stellafane, same equipment but about twice as long total exposure (not really a fair comparison but never-the-less) The rotation is off between ...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:37 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Battery pack
- Replies: 16
- Views: 103
Re: Battery pack
I know Bruce, 50 lbs each! Mike came to my imaging site at Stellafane and was a bit dismayed that I had two batteries sitting on top of my flimsy aluminum camp table along with two laptops and a bunch of stuff. His reaction precipitated making this new power station with a two foot cord so the batte...
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:40 am
- Forum: Galileo's Gabfest
- Topic: Battery pack
- Replies: 16
- Views: 103
Re: Battery pack
IMG_5461.jpg IMG_5460.jpg I replaced the battery (AGM) in my Duracell pack three years ago and it works ok but recently, the AC portion crapped out. So, I now have two 79 amp deep cell group 24's (heavy as H...) in parallel and wired up four 12v cig lighter sockets and an 800 watt converter (with a...
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: Stellafane Dew broke records
- Replies: 8
- Views: 91
Re: Stellafane Dew broke records
Thanks guys. I could not do this without the very cool feature of plate solving with SGP.
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: Stellafane Dew broke records
- Replies: 8
- Views: 91
Re: Stellafane Dew broke records

- Sat Aug 06, 2022 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: Stellafane Dew broke records
- Replies: 8
- Views: 91
Stellafane Dew broke records
The dew was so bad at Stellafane that green mold overwhelmed this image of the veil. Now, if I can only figure out how to bleach it out
80mm refractor at 384FL modded Canon T3i about 2.5 hours guided on an AVX mount. Images Plus and PS to process.

80mm refractor at 384FL modded Canon T3i about 2.5 hours guided on an AVX mount. Images Plus and PS to process.
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:57 am
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: NGC 7129 Nebula and NGC 742 Open Cluster
- Replies: 6
- Views: 100
Re: NGC 7129 Nebula and NGC 742 Open Cluster
Thanks for another great screen saver for my laptop!
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:03 am
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: Oh my, a giant hole is opening up on Jupiter!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 42
Oh my, a giant hole is opening up on Jupiter!
This could have been the title of an old 50's sci-fi movie, eh?
I am just getting back into imaging and not having posted anything for a while, thought to post this from a while back. Cell phone through 70mm refractor
I am just getting back into imaging and not having posted anything for a while, thought to post this from a while back. Cell phone through 70mm refractor
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Imager's Studio
- Topic: SGP plate solve with Ha?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 68
Re: SGP plate solve with Ha?
Thanks Roger!