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03-27-2010, 05:11 PM
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| Astrophotography Just started getting in to this astrophotography, after picking up a telescope for nothing. Scope needs collimating, but is still giving quite clear results via DSLR mount. Here is one of the first few shots taken (when we had a break in the clouds)  |
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03-27-2010, 09:07 PM
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| Re: Astrophotography wow. very cool. i had a telescope when i was MUCH younger but never a camera mount for it. it also had no stabilization or tracking. it was quite hard to get a clear view of anything that wasnt jiggling or blurry. lol. but that's nice and sharp, chris. i like it  |
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04-02-2010, 02:54 PM
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| Re: Astrophotography WOW, thumbs up. Keep sharing. These pics have such depth and detail, they are amazing. Janet |
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04-04-2010, 06:34 PM
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| Re: Astrophotography Not a complete explanation but here goes (copied from another web page) Collimating a telescope is lining up its optical components (lenses, mirrors, prisms, eyepieces) in their proper positions. This should be accurately done, or else the image quality will suffer. Different telescope types, like Newtonian, Schmidt-Cassegrain, or refractors all need good collimation. However, they have quite different optical components, and here I will only talk about Newtonian telescopes, the simplest mirror telescopes. Here is a link to the webpage i got it from http://www.atmpage.org/contrib/Carlin/collimation/ |
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