ASTRO: my first ccd images

John Gretchen has a cool idea: posting first CCD images

Here are my first two: both solar system shots

I had no clue what I was doing

Nice, Richard, but - dates, please!?

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
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John Gretchen has a cool idea: posting first CCD images

Here are my first two: both solar system shots

I had no clue what I was doing

1 december 2000

the telescope (lx200 10") was bought two weeks earlier.

tried film via an OM1 and T ring but gave up and bought an ST7E

that was first light for the ST7E


"Gordan" wrote in message
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Nice, Richard, but - dates, please!?

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
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John Gretchen has a cool idea: posting first CCD images

Here are my first two: both solar system shots

I had no clue what I was doing

I see that you started with a10" LX200... Nice! But a telescope like that is
still a dream for me... I've got a 8" f/5 GSO Newton on EQ6 SynScan Pro
(GoTo) mount for about ten months now. I'm pleased with it but I need to
collimate it frequently, don't know why. Now I'm waiting for my CCD cams
(QHY2Pro for imaging and QHY5 for autoguiding). When I get them I'll post my
first CCD images, too...
Greetings,
Gordan

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
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1 december 2000

the telescope (lx200 10") was bought two weeks earlier.

tried film via an OM1 and T ring but gave up and bought an ST7E

that was first light for the ST7E


"Gordan" wrote in message
...
Nice, Richard, but - dates, please!?

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
...
John Gretchen has a cool idea: posting first CCD images

Here are my first two: both solar system shots

I had no clue what I was doing

yep I bought an 8" LX200 and took it home in mid November 2000. That was my
first telescope ever

Once I got it home I decided that I should have bought the 10" so I
returned it the next day for the larger one.

I kept it for two months and then returned it for a C14

I had terrible results with the CI700 mount so I got an AP1200GTO about two
months after that.

I don't have the LX200 or C14 anymore but I still use the AP1200GTO with my
home built 18" classical cassegrain.


My first "good" image with the C14 / AP1200 was M57

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m57_from_c14.htm


It took me about a year and a half before I figured out that you needed to
combine multiple exposures for each channel....


"Gordan" wrote in message
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I see that you started with a10" LX200... Nice! But a telescope like that
is still a dream for me... I've got a 8" f/5 GSO Newton on EQ6 SynScan Pro
(GoTo) mount for about ten months now. I'm pleased with it but I need to
collimate it frequently, don't know why. Now I'm waiting for my CCD cams
(QHY2Pro for imaging and QHY5 for autoguiding). When I get them I'll post
my first CCD images, too...
Greetings,
Gordan

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
...
1 december 2000

the telescope (lx200 10") was bought two weeks earlier.

tried film via an OM1 and T ring but gave up and bought an ST7E

that was first light for the ST7E


"Gordan" wrote in message
...
Nice, Richard, but - dates, please!?

"Richard Crisp" wrote in message
...
John Gretchen has a cool idea: posting first CCD images

Here are my first two: both solar system shots

I had no clue what I was doing