Posted on 10/08/2009 6:35:15 AM PDT by Reaganesque
What kind of scope do you have? I’ve got a Meade 10 inch GPS with a wedge. I really need a big guidescope and guide camera, try as I might, I can’t get perfect tracking with the wedge. But, I do have a focal reducer which helps. M42 is always a good reliable target, I hope to someday get some great long exposure shots, I shoot with a DSLR and my laptop
They’ll be the best, however, we are also going to try our best to obtain impact images from our location...
I’ve always wanted to observe a lunar impact, and now that chance seems very near...
I really like large impacts and explosions...lol
Main camera is a Canon 40D.
We have tracking down pretty well up to approximately 10 minutes..If you're not familiar with drift alignment, google it and do it.
See post 37...We are fortunate enough to have the scope permanently mounted inside a small observatory, that we can operate via computer, remotely from the home.
Leaving the scope mounted and aligned and ready to go is great and allows near instant imaging/observing after throwing a few switches.
And below is a close of the Eagle center, "Pillars of Creation" that Hubble made famous.
The height of the tallest pillar is approximately 24 trillion miles high or 4 light years long....lol
The shot of the Eagle in post#44 with the amateur scope, shows the same area as taken with the Hubble telescope below. Of course we have considerably less than a billion dollars into our scope/cameras...
A little less than 9 hours to impact!
dude... that so rocks.
The orbit room...I actually set up a little bar in there...
A nice place to launch...an get away from earth for a while.
Yeah, I have to drive many miles for darkness. Even finding polaris in my neighborhood is tough. I’m using a Canon 450D, it does OK. I found something cool, a scope cover that is also a focusing mask, makes life very easy
corporate space ventures are the way to go.
I’m sort of thinking a Las Vegas type venture, casino in space.
Any way you look at it private interests are way more economically viable and less wasteful than N..A.S.A.,
lots more inventive too.
That's amazing. What are those structures? What are they made of? Thanks.
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