Monthly Archives: December 2009

LOTRO screenshots.

Took some screenshots from within the game Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). Click and enjoy! http://www.silvren.com/lotro-screen-caps/

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Nice!!!

Bob Long from the AAA_Imaging group on Yahoo did the post-processing of my M42 data in Photoshop CS. We figured out that the 120s and 180s subs weren’t really useable (I’ll go into more detail later why), but here’s the … Continue reading

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M42 – revisited!

Okay, here’s M42 again. This is 10x60s, 5x120s, and 3x180s subexposures, with dark subtraction for each set. Then I combined each of the 3 sets. I didn’t do any stretching as I’m pretty clueless about that stuff. But I was … Continue reading

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New piece…

Picked up a William Optics 2″ diagonal to use with both the 8″ SCT and 80mm refractor for visual use. Comes with a nice 1.25″ adapter, and also a 2″ SCT adapter:

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