Paul Walker
Paul Walker
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RE: Jupiter with TEC180

Hi Terri, Yes, nice shot. Always fun to test out new "toys". Just wait until you get a new house (assuming that's still the plan) and can put in so...

2 years ago
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RE: Total Lunar Eclipse - 11-08-22

Hi Greg, nice. Good to see you saw and imaged it. I tried to include the Pleiades in the with my 75-300mm zoom but couldn't get them in at 75mm. My...

2 years ago
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RE: Mars Images - 2022

Mars 2022-11-03, 3:01 AM EDT The same morning I imaged Mars and it's moons I imaged the planet itself. The seeing was very good. My best views were...

2 years ago
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RE: Mars Images - 2022

Mars, Deimos and maybe Phobos, 2022-11-03 in the AM Took some longer exposures of Mars Thursday Morning, 2022-11-03 to see if I could image Mars moo...

2 years ago
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RE: NGC 7822 (Sh2-171) (Constellation Cep)

Hum, more noise reduction please. I am thinking a little less than the first one, with maybe the same sharpening though you may have to back off a li...

2 years ago
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RE: NGC 7822 (Sh2-171) (Constellation Cep)

Nice. I do see the calf, though I had to go back and read your description of where it is. It's facing to the upper left and show only the head, fro...

2 years ago
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RE: Jupiter from Michigan

We only require a good reason to register non-VAS members on our forum. That's a good reason. Send his email address directly to me and I'll registe...

2 years ago
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RE: Jupiter from Michigan

Well, I don't know much about the Jet Stream other than that it is associated with poor seeing. I have seen that onif you click on the map, you get t...

2 years ago
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RE: Jupiter from Michigan

Wow, his image is comparable to or better than the best we have been able to get. Would never guess this was from a non-tracking scope. By the way t...

2 years ago
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RE: Jupiter Images

Very nice. I would suggest you play with pushing the sharpening (particularly at the mid-range spacial scale) and/or the contrast at least a bit more...

2 years ago
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RE: Fireworks Galaxy NGC6946

Hi Terri, On the guider suggestion, the "problem" is I'm not using a laptop or other computing device so I use a Celestron NexGuide, stand alone auto...

2 years ago
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RE: Fireworks Galaxy NGC6946

That's too bad about having to send the scope back. I expect mirror shift is at least part of what is limiting the subs on my setup, especially when ...

2 years ago
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RE: Fireworks Galaxy NGC6946

I think they are better. I like the overall result much better. Eventual the viewer may notice a few of the brightest stars look a little off due to...

2 years ago
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RE: Saturn and Jupiter

Nice. I was going to mention that you could pull out a little more detail in Jupiter (I tried it myself the other day). That's as much or more that ...

2 years ago
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RE: Saturn and Jupiter

Not too shabby Scott. I'm not going to try figuring out the effective f/ratio or focal length. A 6" aperture has a good resolving power but the imag...

2 years ago
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