Joe, If you are referring to the HyperStar it makes it easy to get wide field fast images with a bigger scope. Most of the images in my album see http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=303 were do that way with a single shot color camera. You will get better results with an autoguider and monochrome camera with filters. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:55 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] HH from Patrick's data Hey Patrick, read the present issue of Astronomy mag! There's hope for us "big boys" (telescopes!) jb --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] HH from Patrick's data To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 10:36 PM On 26 Feb 2009, at 09:21, Joe Bauman wrote:
Patrick, I agree about the stars. If you blow up a section of a wider view you get fatter stars. Often the smaller view will have more detail. If I made a zillion-piece mosaic that covered as much a single shot from Tyler's telescope, it would look similar. So I am not going after big objects. I'll shoot things like planetaries and galaxies that aren't enormous.
I do sometimes miss the wider fields of a short focal length OTA. Between that and a thread I started on another list, I'm actually giving serious thought to pulling my Schmidt camera out of mothballs. Fast (f/1.65) and short (230 mm focal length) and a 6 x 9 *degree* (not minute) FOV. I was at Picture Line yesterday and was surprised to see a lot of film photography stuff for sale. I doubt I'd print anything, rather I'd just scan and manipulate the negatives. So maybe this is why I've never dismantled my darkroom. patrick p.s. I love the smell of acetic acid in the morning... :) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com