orion photo

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:39 pm

Remus didn't put anything online, so you won't find it anywhere..

Best that he explains it himself.

I'll just give a brief outline:
Select stars, feather, use filter>others>Minimal to contract the stars further and make them look tighter and more pinpoint..

Just experiment and see.

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:39 pm

thanks chris. i'll give that a try...

Post by **perseid** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:25 pm

Is there something in your second image that is supposed to be "wrong"? I can't find any.
However, I found that the chromatic aberation is quite bad. The WO may not be an APO but it shouldn't have produced such a bad aberation. My 80mm F7.5 achro produced much better correction.
If the weather is good, I may try to test out the scope for its imaging capability.

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:01 pm

hi CK, suffice to say for imaging, the lxd55 exceeded my expectation and the zs66 didn't.
for visual use, both are very good, and work together surprisingly well.

Post by **weixing** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:47 pm

Hi,

hi CK, suffice to say for imaging, the lxd55 exceeded my expectation and the zs66 didn't. for visual use, both are very good, and work together surprisingly well.

Why are you surprise that both work well together... in fact they should. If your lxd55 cannot handle a 66mm scope and there is nothing wrong with your alignment, I think you can dump that mount and find a new mount...

Anyway, try using a LPR filter, it'll reduce the CA and enchance the nebulosity.

Have a nice day.

kamayok3 · Post by **kamayok3** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:12 pm

hypertune your LXD55...Poor man way!!

Tommy

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:34 pm

weixing wrote:
Anyway, try using a LPR filter, it'll reduce the CA and enchance the nebulosity.

thanks for the suggestion. but i'm using/used a LPS filter.
the CA could have been made worse by my minimal, poor ps processing. anyone got an orion 80mm apo to let go...? :oops:

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:40 pm

kamayok3 wrote:hypertune your LXD55...Poor man way!!

thanks for the suggestion tommy. but mine is a hypertuned version (a plate on the mount body claims so) - not by me, apparently by a previous owner. i'm the 3rd, at least...

yes, i'm on the poor man path already... that reminds me, i have to post some photos of my poor man, but operational, backyard obs. without it i won't be doing no imaging... :oops:

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:23 am

another look at orion from inside the obs...

jermng · Post by **jermng** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:35 am

Wow KingKong, is that your observatory? I'll be heading down to Borneo end June/early July - Sabah for an extended trip - maybe I can meet you. A long drive would be fun for me ..