Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon
Reged: 10/13/05
Posts: 519
Loc: Louisiana
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Here is a 7 second Horsehead and Flame:
Jack Huerkamp
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Orion ED80
Coulter CT-100
Celestron 6" f/8 Refractor
8" Newtonian/Cassegrain on Byers 812 Mount
Classic C-8
Celestron 11" CPC 100 with HyperStar
Tricked-out 17.5" AstroSystems TeleKit
Life Member and ALCOR - PAS New Orleans
 Waning Moon II Observatory
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greg
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Reged: 01/25/05
Posts: 389
Loc: Central Ca.
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That Flame and Horsehead are really good for 7 sec. Jack what F/Ratio was that image taken at?
Very Nice
Greg
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30" F/4.5 Truss
12" LX200 GPS
Orion ST120mm F/5
Celestron 102mm F/5 Finderscope
2" 26mm 70* Illuminated Reticle
26mm T5 Nagler
20mm T5 Nagler
13mm ETHOS
Pentax XW 10mm
MallinCam Color Hyper Plus
9" Speco HighRes. Color CRT Monitor
Light polluted Backyard
10' Home Dome
MallinCam Deep Space Observatory
Great Darksite 1.5 Hrs. Away
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Bowmoreman
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/11/06
Posts: 2992
Loc: Bolton, MA
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But the CPC is an Alt-Az monted scope. The only time I say field rotation issues was when I first looked at M33 when it was DIRECTLY at the zenith. There I could see live on the monitor the circular star trails in only 7 seconds. So I waited 2 hours and tried M33 again. Here is what I saw in 7 seconds. If the sky was not so washed out with humidity and Christmas lights, I could have tried longer exposures. I can't wait to get to Chiefland in a month:
Jack Huerkamp
Jack, that is sweet! This captures exactly what M33 looks like (to me) on my monitor using my ED100Sf... at 56 seconds...
It looks exactly like this!!! amazing
none of my pictures of the monitor show this...
your combo of aperture and speed, have me lusting after same... I can only imaging how great it really looks "live" on the monitor (from which you separately did this capture!)...
clear enough skies
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Dave
Ustream
YLive
XT10i, RTP, CGE, R200CF, TMB80SS
31T5, 22T4, 13Ethos, 8Ethos, TV 3-6 Zoom; Paracorr
MallincamColorHyperPlus,SBIG STV&237A;CanonRebel Xti
WilderSkiesObservatory(BYO #90)
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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon
Reged: 10/13/05
Posts: 519
Loc: Louisiana
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The HyperStar is f/1.8 and provides about a 3/4 degree diagonal FOV on the 11".
Jack
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Orion ED80
Coulter CT-100
Celestron 6" f/8 Refractor
8" Newtonian/Cassegrain on Byers 812 Mount
Classic C-8
Celestron 11" CPC 100 with HyperStar
Tricked-out 17.5" AstroSystems TeleKit
Life Member and ALCOR - PAS New Orleans
Waning Moon II Observatory
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smokin oakum
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 09/24/07
Posts: 1426
Loc: Wilmington, NC
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Jack, I'm drooling. How's Rock doing with the build? I'm dying, seeing all this fun you guy's are having.
Nice shots!!!
Neil
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Broadcasting live views of the night sky @
Sparkcast
C11 CGE / Hyperstar
MallinCam Hyper Plus Color
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
MoonLite Focuser
Round Table Platform
12" Parralax rings
Cape Fear Astronomy Club
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Pat G.
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Reged: 04/24/03
Posts: 355
Loc: Sunny Southern Ontario
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So Jack, HyperStar on front of the 11", MallinCam into the HyperStar. No other focal reducers?
I can see this is going to cost me 
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Patrick G
Celestron NS11 GPS
Tele Vue 102
Miyauchi 20x77 binos
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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon
Reged: 10/13/05
Posts: 519
Loc: Louisiana
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Patrick,
Yep. Remove the secondary from the CPC 1100 and store it in the supplied case. Screw the MallinCam Color HYPER PLUS onto the T to C adapter and screw the adapter onto the HyperStar transfer lens. Screw the assembly onto the corrector plate adapter. Attach power and video cables. Install the dewcap. Focus and observe.
Due to the 3/4 degree field of view provided by the f/1.8 system with MallinCam, every GoTo placed the target on the chip - usually in the center 1/3rd of the FOV.
Jack
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Orion ED80
Coulter CT-100
Celestron 6" f/8 Refractor
8" Newtonian/Cassegrain on Byers 812 Mount
Classic C-8
Celestron 11" CPC 100 with HyperStar
Tricked-out 17.5" AstroSystems TeleKit
Life Member and ALCOR - PAS New Orleans
Waning Moon II Observatory
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Mike Harvey
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/01/04
Posts: 589
Loc: Orlando, FL.
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OK...you guys are makin' me crazy!
I'm still not convinced any of us have found a truly successful method of capturing and displaying images.
As we note with every posting "this image does not show the sharpness, clarity, detail etc. of the actual on-screen image...etc." - AND IT'S TRUE! We need a breakthrough of some sort that will 'grab' EXACTLY what we are seeing on the screen.
I am now going to commit a heresy that will probably get me yelled at, BUT....I've found an image of Stephan's Qunitet that looks PRECISELY how it appears in my 28" with a 14" interation in the Mallincam Hyper Color....the only thing missing is that last little thingee - COLOR. So, I guess you can say that the attached image is INFERIOR to what is being seen on the monitor screen.
Thought it might be of interest to those of you (like me) who want to REALLY go after "deep fuzzies:
Mike
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Bowmoreman
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/11/06
Posts: 2992
Loc: Bolton, MA
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argh, I feel the fever a comin...
Aperture Fever
Astronomy "A"
A for awful trouble...
Nice capture!!!
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Dave
Ustream
YLive
XT10i, RTP, CGE, R200CF, TMB80SS
31T5, 22T4, 13Ethos, 8Ethos, TV 3-6 Zoom; Paracorr
MallincamColorHyperPlus,SBIG STV&237A;CanonRebel Xti
WilderSkiesObservatory(BYO #90)
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gavbray
sage
Reged: 12/31/06
Posts: 232
Loc: Gold Coast, Australia
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Here's a shot of M42.
Captured using 14" LX200R + MFR4 + MCHP + Canopus ADVC-55 video converter.
Zero processing.
2 seconds:
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14" LX200R + SV90T + AP1200GTO
31mm, 22mm, 17mm Naglers, 13mm Ethos, 10mm Pentax XW, 2X Powermate, AP MaxBright
Mallincam Hyper Plus Color, DFG/1394 video converter, Optec 0.33 & 0.7 FRs
IDAS LPS, DGM NPB & OIII, Lumicon Deep Sky
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gavbray
sage
Reged: 12/31/06
Posts: 232
Loc: Gold Coast, Australia
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and 7 seconds:
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14" LX200R + SV90T + AP1200GTO
31mm, 22mm, 17mm Naglers, 13mm Ethos, 10mm Pentax XW, 2X Powermate, AP MaxBright
Mallincam Hyper Plus Color, DFG/1394 video converter, Optec 0.33 & 0.7 FRs
IDAS LPS, DGM NPB & OIII, Lumicon Deep Sky
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BradH
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 06/19/04
Posts: 1008
Loc: Spencer, Indiana
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Very nice Gavin. 2sec shows the trap really nice.
Brad
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AP 140mm f7.5 StarFire
AP 900 GTO
PST goto Meade DS mount
Mallincam Hyper Color Plus
Skyshed
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smokin oakum
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 09/24/07
Posts: 1426
Loc: Wilmington, NC
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Well here is M42 without tracking. It was my first light with the Mallincam, and without tracking it was even hard to focus.
Single frame, no processing.
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Broadcasting live views of the night sky @
Sparkcast
C11 CGE / Hyperstar
MallinCam Hyper Plus Color
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
MoonLite Focuser
Round Table Platform
12" Parralax rings
Cape Fear Astronomy Club
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greg
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Reged: 01/25/05
Posts: 389
Loc: Central Ca.
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Nice,
It looks better than I thought it would without tracking... It will be nice to see how well you do with tracking.
Greg
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30" F/4.5 Truss
12" LX200 GPS
Orion ST120mm F/5
Celestron 102mm F/5 Finderscope
2" 26mm 70* Illuminated Reticle
26mm T5 Nagler
20mm T5 Nagler
13mm ETHOS
Pentax XW 10mm
MallinCam Color Hyper Plus
9" Speco HighRes. Color CRT Monitor
Light polluted Backyard
10' Home Dome
MallinCam Deep Space Observatory
Great Darksite 1.5 Hrs. Away
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Bowmoreman
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/11/06
Posts: 2992
Loc: Bolton, MA
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Feels pretty good, though, doesn't it, Neil?
That is about what I would have expected w/o tracking; with your scope I think you are running above 150X with the MCHP, so things do move pretty quick, eh?
Now that I've had my first success with my RTP (visual only), I can't wait for the next clear night to check out my 10" with MCHP - I even just cleared out another "pad" of the 10" of snow we just got yesterday, so that I can setup the Dob close enough to the observatory! 
Did you catch any other targets last night, Neil?
clear enough skies
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Dave
Ustream
YLive
XT10i, RTP, CGE, R200CF, TMB80SS
31T5, 22T4, 13Ethos, 8Ethos, TV 3-6 Zoom; Paracorr
MallincamColorHyperPlus,SBIG STV&237A;CanonRebel Xti
WilderSkiesObservatory(BYO #90)
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smokin oakum
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 09/24/07
Posts: 1426
Loc: Wilmington, NC
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Feels pretty good, though, doesn't it, Neil?
That is about what I would have expected w/o tracking; with your scope I think you are running above 150X with the MCHP, so things do move pretty quick, eh?
Now that I've had my first success with my RTP (visual only), I can't wait for the next clear night to check out my 10" with MCHP - I even just cleared out another "pad" of the 10" of snow we just got yesterday, so that I can setup the Dob close enough to the observatory!
Did you catch any other targets last night, Neil?
clear enough skies
Yea Dave! I had a good run last night. I did a short first light report under the First Light MallinCam HYPER PLUS COLOR post. All in all the objects (with the MFR-3 and 15mm of spacers) didn't move that fast from side to side. I'd say it stayed on the screen for about a minute before I had to adjust.
You skies look pretty good for tomorow night!
Neil
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Broadcasting live views of the night sky @
Sparkcast
C11 CGE / Hyperstar
MallinCam Hyper Plus Color
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
MoonLite Focuser
Round Table Platform
12" Parralax rings
Cape Fear Astronomy Club
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Ptarmigan
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 09/23/04
Posts: 1874
Loc: Arctic
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All those images taken with the Mallincam look great for short exposure.  I am green with envy.
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Ptarmigans=Cute and Cuddly
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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon
Reged: 10/13/05
Posts: 519
Loc: Louisiana
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Here is an updated image to the one of the Running man Nebula I grabbed the first night I tried out the 11" CPC HyperStar. This is a single 56 second, unprocessed single frame taken with a MallinCam Color HYPER PLUS.
The frame grabber I was using introduced some distortion in the stars and the colors in the frame grab are redder than that on the monitor. I will be tring a different frame grabber at Chiefland Astronomy Village in two weeks.
Jack
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Orion ED80
Coulter CT-100
Celestron 6" f/8 Refractor
8" Newtonian/Cassegrain on Byers 812 Mount
Classic C-8
Celestron 11" CPC 100 with HyperStar
Tricked-out 17.5" AstroSystems TeleKit
Life Member and ALCOR - PAS New Orleans
Waning Moon II Observatory
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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon
Reged: 10/13/05
Posts: 519
Loc: Louisiana
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Here is an updated image to the one of the Horsehead Nebula I grabbed the first night I tried out the 11" CPC HyperStar. This is a single 56 second, unprocessed single frame taken with a MallinCam Color HYPER PLUS. The frame grabber I used introduced some distortion into the stars and the image is redder than that on the monitor. I will be trying a USB frame grabber to see if it performs better than the AverV Cardbus PC card I have been using.
Jack
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Orion ED80
Coulter CT-100
Celestron 6" f/8 Refractor
8" Newtonian/Cassegrain on Byers 812 Mount
Classic C-8
Celestron 11" CPC 100 with HyperStar
Tricked-out 17.5" AstroSystems TeleKit
Life Member and ALCOR - PAS New Orleans
Waning Moon II Observatory
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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon
Reged: 10/13/05
Posts: 519
Loc: Louisiana
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Also, here is an image of he Flame Nebula - another 56 second unprocessed single frame:
Jack
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Orion ED80
Coulter CT-100
Celestron 6" f/8 Refractor
8" Newtonian/Cassegrain on Byers 812 Mount
Classic C-8
Celestron 11" CPC 100 with HyperStar
Tricked-out 17.5" AstroSystems TeleKit
Life Member and ALCOR - PAS New Orleans
Waning Moon II Observatory
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