Thanks Joe and Kurt, I was really surprised how the Automatic setting gave the best shot. I tried the Aperature Priority setting also but the picture was a little too bright. My dream is to shoot Omega Centauri at the 880mm focal length. This would be a nice image size for globulars, galaxies and big planetary nebulae. When I finally learn how to get a good polar alignment I want to shoot globulars and bright galaxies with this camera. Debbie
From: Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> Date: 2005/08/22 Mon AM 09:13:58 MDT To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Bright Moon
Really nice, Deb! -- Joe
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--- astrodeb@charter.net wrote:
Thanks Joe and Kurt, <snip> When I finally learn how to get a good polar alignment I want to shoot globulars and bright galaxies with this camera.
These links may help. - Canopus56(Kurt) Andy Shot-Glass Flash Movie illustrating drift alignment http://www.andysshotglass.com/DriftAlignment.html (This thing's really amazing. Slow start on explaining the meridian, then it gets good.) Bill Ferris's Cosmic Voyage Declination Drift Method page http://hometown.aol.com/billferris/decdrift.html Polar alignment by Jerry Lodgris http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/I07/I0701/I0701.HTM Chuck Vaughn's Drift alignment page http://www.aa6g.org/Astronomy/articles.html Pedro Re's drift alignment page with some useful photos http://www.astrosurf.com/re/polar.html Covington's handout with examples on the drift method http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/ASTRO/driftmethod.pdf#search='Drift%20method%20alignment%20method' Covington's applet that figures the drift error for each degree of misalignment http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/astro/Polar.html (Useful for figuring out, theoretically, how closely you have to be aligned to avoid an arcsecond of image smear for a particular length of exposure.) ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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