Hello ng I recently purchased an ETX125 which included a toucam II pro, the camera has been mounted in a small box with what looks like an open ended 35mm...

Like many other people I am interested in choosing a digital camera or two for dual use. i.e. astrophotographs and terrestrial photographs as well. Is there...

My son is trying to get his new Meade imager working, and he said that the preview pic (Jupiter) is OK, but when he takes a pic, the image goes to...

It will eat all the light, so how can I take a photo of it?

I have a series of fits files that are of a comet. I can show them as a 'movie' in IRIS and CCDsoft. However I'd like to convert them into an mpeg or avi file...

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/info.shtml?223 Click on the picture. There's a lot of white dots which are clearly some sort of noise on...

hello! i am a student writeing paper on CCD astro imaging. my goal is to create a program that improves image from sequence out of atmosphere distorsed images...

This week we have NGC2336 in Camelopardalis. This giant spiral galaxy lies at a distance of about 96 million light years. It is 178,000 light years across or...

Mick wrote: I have a couple of dust specks on my CCD/ I can't see them visually but they do show up on screen. Why do you think they are...

Hi all - I have just written an image stacker (image averaging) noise reducer. It works very well but I was wondering what performance you guys get...

How can I determine the length of the line that the hough transform detects? What goes on with aliased lines... for example.. X X X X

I used the same 3nm FWHM Cust Sci filter for both images. The C14/Dream Machine (IMG10124S) camera was exposed for 20 minutes x 3 exposures. the...

How much extra weight can I attach to an LX200 and still be in with a chance at taking photographs? As a pre-emptive follow up question, is the 10" better...

I've been looking over that last two weeks for comet P/Encke, but am not having much luck finding it at or near the coordinates published my the Minor Planet...

I'm looking for recommendations for digital cameras for lunar, planetary, solar, and tripod/piggyback constellation shots. The price should be under $500 or...

Hi to all, As from subject, I have adjourned and assistant new images in middle-high resolution and to great field (new section) lunar and solar with...

I'm planning to mount a telescope pier (Astro Pier) on a to be poured concrete slab. The slab would be on a slope (although the slab obviously would be level)...

Hi all With a LX200 12" (305mm) and 6 meters of focal in posting ALTAZ. how many seconds can I photograph before underlining the rotation of field?? thanks in...

Here's another comparison image. This compares Thor's Helmet Halpha taken with an Astro-Physics AP155EDF and ST10XME camera (binned 1x1) with one taken with a...

Good morning, I have a question related to a problem quite difficult for me. I'm involved in the task of calibrating the Correlated Double Sampling system for...