ZielkeNightsky
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Thanks...
Greg.
The views are processed to remove warm pixels. I remove them by hand. I also adjusted the brigtness to my home office LCD screen. I found out at work today, that this is a bad idea, the Bubble looks teribble.
From my memory, the Elephant trunk, Bubble, Arp 148 and Coddington is single frames.
The other can be more than "one", it depends on the integration time. I think I took a snapshot every 5 secs. So If theres an overlap, yes. The reason I did that, was to find an esay way to remove "warm" pixel.
I think on most of the frames I took at almost full gain, which will show the pixels clearly.
Here is an example of the Elephant trunk, which I think is better. This is a raw capture from the sparkcast player, not adjusted in any way, raw from the sparkcast player.
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Lars
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smokin oakum
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M8 the Lagoon
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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
Edited by smokin oakum (05/14/08 08:37 AM)
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greg
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Thanks Lars, great images...
Very Nice M8 Neil... Looks like that new mount is working well for you and handels your 12" OTA Just fine for use with the MallinCam.
Greg
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Chris Schroeder
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Nicely done Lars and Neil
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Chris
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smokin oakum
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Here is last nights session. Just trying to see if I can improve on the last visit to these parts of the sky. The higher these get the better the contrast, it seams.
M104
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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
Edited by smokin oakum (05/27/08 11:03 AM)
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smokin oakum
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M82
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Broadcasting live views of the night sky @
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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
Edited by smokin oakum (05/27/08 11:04 AM)
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smokin oakum
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M16
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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
Edited by smokin oakum (05/27/08 11:05 AM)
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smokin oakum
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M8
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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
Edited by smokin oakum (05/27/08 11:06 AM)
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smokin oakum
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M20
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MallinCam Hyper Plus Color
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
MoonLite Focuser
Round Table Platform
12" Parralax rings
Cape Fear Astronomy Club
Edited by smokin oakum (05/27/08 11:07 AM)
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smokin oakum
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M22
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Broadcasting live views of the night sky @
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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
Edited by smokin oakum (05/27/08 11:08 AM)
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smokin oakum
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I forgot to mention that all of these shots were grabed on the fly just using the Sparkcasts capture function. One of these days I guess I should get around to use my actual capture device to grab some images! I'm sure it would be better, but this is just too easy!
Neil
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Broadcasting live views of the night sky @
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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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smokin oakum
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NGC3242
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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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Chris Schroeder
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Nice Ghost of Jupiter Neil!
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Chris
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Sky Captain
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NGC3242
Very nice Neil!
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HendyPhoto
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WOW!! VERY nice shots there Neil! You got that thing nailed!
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and I'm not sure about the universe." --Albert Einstein
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smokin oakum
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Thanks everyone! I'm really liking this setup. I'm even more on the fence now about getting the C14 with hyperstar now.
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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mclewis1
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Neil,
Listen carefully to the whispers  ... "more aperture" ... "faster F ratio" ... "tastes great" ... "less filling" ... ooops sorry.
Go on, you know you want to.
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Mark
C11, C6, APM/TMB115, and AT80ED
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Bill Cowles
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Jon, you still out there, haven't heard from you in awhile.
Bill
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Mike Harvey
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WE just had two OUTSTANDING nights at Chiefland and one that
was 'average".
There were FOUR "Mallincammers" on the field!
As we gain more and more experience through trial & error with these devices, we're getting some images that far exceed what we thought was GREAT just a year ago.
I still call them "images" (and, technically, they are) but it's really "enhanced observing" as opposed to traditional "imaging".
I had another "one of those moments" when the seeing and the tracking came together for an interesting image of M-57.
There were so many stars either involved in or superimposed upon the nebula that Mike Zammit asked it they were really stars or 'hot pixels' or some other form of artifact.
I had to go to the HUBBLE ARCHIVES (!) to find an image that
CONFIRMED they were truly STARS!
The image on my 10.4" Marshall screen (1.44 million pixels) was so sharp it looked 'etched'. The hand-held digital photo that I took of the monitor screen (as always) does not do justice to what was really seen (and the actual, observed, color balance did not come through in the photo - lots of blue missing).
14-second Iteration w/ Mallincam Color Hyper Plus Imager
28" f/3.6 Starstructure
Mike
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Mike Harvey
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I knew that Hubble had imaged Proplyds within the center of M-20. But I had never definitely detected them visually, even with scopes up to 32".
This week I decided to try with the Mallincam and zeroed-in on the center of M-20 with the 28" f/3.6 Starstructure.
The Proplyds are actually not so hard to see...with enough aperture...and, IF we know what we're looking for!
I realized that I actually HAD observed at least one, visually, in the past but didn't recognize it for what it was.
I've posted an image that is actually a digital photograph of the LCD screen (which was showing the original image from the scope) so it is inferior in quality to what we were actually seeing...but is still stunning.
Look for the largest of the Proplyds to the left of the 'nucleus'.
*Update: I also imaged M-20 with a Meade SN-8 w/MCHP.
The largest of the Proplyds is also visible in that image
(now that I know what it is!).
Mike Harvey
Edited by Mike Harvey (06/04/08 02:43 AM)
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