Eric Mjolnir

Very nice Shane. Makes me realize that I did get heavy handed with the noise reduction and saturation! Wish I could have salvaged more of the images. Micro SD card took a dump or I would have had 30 dithered of these images. Eric

BTW here are the kits. Eric

Here is the light pollution chart for the NSP. Eric

Thanks guys. I know it is hard to believe that is just one frame so I made a link to to the original CR2 file it came from. I would like to see if you all can get even more from the data than I did with my limited tools. Looking forward to seeing your results. Drop Box CR2 Eric

Hi all! After a very long hiatus from anything astronomy I took a vacation and went to the Nebraska Star Party. My main goals there were to do some visual observing with my 20" Obsession Classic telescope from a pristine dark site. The goals were achieved in spades! I took one night there to set up the AT72ED and do some imaging. Well things went wrong all over the place and needless to say due to blue screens and a portable storage device failure I thought I was left with nothing. I did find 1 image that somehow was saved. It was a single raw frame of 180 seconds at ISO 800 with an unmodified Canon T3i. I shot this with the AT72ED on a guided Sky Watcher EQ-6. Image was processed with Digital Photo Professional, Photo Shop Elements 2018, and Astronomy Tools for Elements. After many iterations, I am satisfied that I have pulled as much information out of one frame of data as I am capable of with the tools I have. I tried very hard not to over cook or use to much noise reduction. I was lucky to be at such of a dark site that just one frame held so much information. Eric

I heard they were going to launch a Probe called "Heliospheric Observational Limits Experiment", or HOLE. Eric

Whoa Ray! Sarah Connor indeed! Skynet Eric

I noticed an uncanny resemblance and thought to myself...Have we created the beginning of our end as these things get smarter and smarter? Could it be Lexons? Eric

Love them Red stars myself! Eric

Thank you. As far as astro presents, none so far. I would gladly be satisfied with a good night of seeing! Have to work all week long and my astronomy adventures are limited to Saturday nights...weather permitting. Thanks again and clear skies to you all. Eric One year closer to the big dirt nap!

Simply Spectacular! Eric

Broccoli makes me Fractal a lot after ingestion! Wonderful image! Eric

Completed project used all Stainless steel hardware and counter weight and block painted. Now everything balances great! Eric

I now worked on the ADM dovetail. I through drill it for 1/4-20 SS socket head screws and tapped the bottom of the block. The finished assembly. Eric