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Experiencing L(n)ight: Scanner Frustrations
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Wednesday, September 28, 2016. The scanner complained again yesterday while finishing up another film strip. I will speak with an FAE later today. My first thought is to skip the film astrophotography at Calstar this year out of frustration. I realize that this is just a temporary setback and it's better to use the film rather than waiting until next year. I can always leave it in a binder until I'm able to scan again. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Black...
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Experiencing L(n)ight: February 2015
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Friday, February 27, 2015. Rosette with the Pentax K10D DSLR. This image of the Rosette Nebula was taken in the backyard during January 2015. Taken with the Pentax K10D DSLR with smc P-A* 1:4 300mm lens. An IDAS LPS P2 filter was used on the lens to improve contrast. Links to this post. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Sharpless 274 with the QSI 683. First real picture with the new camera. As noted in the earlier post, this was a sum of RGB and Luminance data.
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Experiencing L(n)ight: July 2016
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Monday, July 11, 2016. One E200 from GSSP 2016. NGC7000: 40 minutes at F5.6. 400mm EDIF. No push in processing. I got the color rolls developed at the Darkroom last week. On the preview of the E200, I see that the film looks good. Exposures could have been better, but if longer, the stars would have bloated more. This frame was from Friday night. I have a new batch of Xtol to mix up and will see how the black and white looks. Links to this post. Lighting 103: ...
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Experiencing L(n)ight: June 2016
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Planning to burn through some Acros and E200 during GSSP 2016. This should allow me to run through a roll each night, planning on shooting at F5.6 for 40 minutes. The apparatus shown above weighs 33.5 lbs. Just slightly overweight for the GM8. Links to this post. Golden State Star Party. Monday, June 27, 2016. GSSP 2016 Weather Forecast. Looks pretty good for the event! Links to this post. Labels: Golden State Star Party. 10 years of We...
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Experiencing L(n)ight: March 2015
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Monday, March 23, 2015. Cable and Power Setup with QSI Camera. As mentioned in earlier posts, I'm now using a QSI 683 WSG camera for the main astrophotography work. In order to fully use the capabilities of the camera and mount control, I also installed the Feathertouch FocusBoss II motor. A closeup of the Powerpole distribution block. The wide view of the scope assembly. Note the eyelet routing the cables at the base of the QSI camera. Links to this post.
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Experiencing L(n)ight: October 2014
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Post-Calstar 2014 Wrapup: Thursday. My Thursday at Calstar was . a bit challenging. While it was great to learn to use the bow that Carl brought (no pictures of me doing this as far as I know) and having the clouds meant little heat from the late summer sun, there was not a lot going on. The day was overcast in the morning and didn't break up until later in the afternoon. Links to this post. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. The deer were...
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Experiencing L(n)ight: December 2016
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Thursday, December 22, 2016. Solstice Vigor and Venus. Venus and Twilight on Dec 21 2016. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Pentaxian at the start, from the mid-80s and my K1000. Set film aside in 2001 and went to an Olympus 3020Z P and S. Now shooting with a Pentax K10D. Also using a Pentax LX and 67 camera to use full frame and medium format film. View my complete profile. View Stephen Migol's profile. Solstice Vigor and Venus. The central Cygn...
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Experiencing L(n)ight: October 2015
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Thursday, October 22, 2015. Updating the FocusLynx software on XP. Optec has recently updated their focus software which controls the Starlight Instruments Handy Stepper Motor FocusBoss II hardware. The new software goes with new firmware, allowing many more steps than the original 32000. This now allows the HSM to run the full focus distance from fully racked in to full extension. Msiexec /a “path to .msi” /qb TARGETDIR="path to program folder". The Optec tec...
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Experiencing L(n)ight: May 2016
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A Timeline of Sorts about astro photography. Friday, May 20, 2016. Links to this post. Thursday, May 19, 2016. Changing Camera Control Software. Switching from Maxim to The Sky X (TSX) Camera Add-On via CCDAutopilot. I decided to give TSX another shot since I had the plugin for it. Ive been using it for all-sky platesolves and this has been pretty fast and reliable. I wanted to take advantage of the additional focus controls that were available in TSX. Links to this post. Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Over ...
