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Half Moon
This is a picture of the half moon from early in January 2009. This was taken with a Canon 10D through a Takahashi FS102 refractor at prime focus. -
5D Mark II Astrophotography Tests
There have been a lot of reports of the 5D's trouble with bright point lights. I recently updated to the new firmware (version 1.0.7) and took some test shots with the 5D Mark II and a Takahashi FS102 refractor. I also wanted to test out the sensitivity at various ISO values. All these pictures were [...] -
New Scans of Old Astrophotos
I recently had some of my old astrophoto slides scanned with a Noritsu slide scanner so I can put them into permanent storage and finally move into 100% digital photography. I've learned a lot about image processing and the tools are much better now than they were when I originally took the photos. There are three [...] -
M42 shot with a Canon 10D
It's been at least three years since I've done any astrophotograpy but last night I lugged out the equipment and shot a few frames. I only made it out as far as the driveway and the sky isn't very dark in northern San Diego but it's amazing what kind of results you can get [...] -
G11 Bearing Upgrade
This is a tutorial on replacing the bearings on the Losmandy G11 telescope mount. This may or may not improve the tracking ability. It's kind of fun to do anyway. The Losmandy G11 mount is a great piece of hardware. However, the included bearings seem to fall short when compared to the rest of [...] -
Astrophotography Equipment
Takahashi FS102 Refractor This Apochromatic telescope provides very sharp images with no color fringed stars. When reduced to F/5.9 you get about 3 degrees of coverage in the sky. I prefer to take pictures of large, wide field objects and this is just about the right focal length for those objects. I also use the extremely [...]