RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 7, 2015 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2015 at 11:23 pm by orogenicman.)
(July 7, 2015 at 11:17 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: That's pretty sweet, oro.
I bet that apo takes some purty pictures. I haven't priced out any astro gear lately, but I bet that setup cost several multiples of what I paid for my SCT.
Indeed. I have something like $5,000 in mine, and theirs are orders of magnitude more than what I paid. But they are using the latest ccds and filter wheels with expensive filters, whereas I am using a modified Canon DSLR. The f-ratio is much too high on Alan's to be trying to take widefield images. But he could beat mine hands down imaging galaxies and other very deep sky objects. I'm a Milky Way sort of fella.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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