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Mary Brown
{K:68582} 7/20/2005
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Great picture, Bob. The features show well as do some craters along the terminator. Nice lens ;-)
Mary
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SONNY RODRIGUE
{K:387} 7/20/2005
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GOOD PHOTO BOB, I ALSO LIKE THKING PICTURES OF SPACE THROUGH MY 8" SCOPE. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MARS NEXT MONTH,
GOOD LUCK---SONNY
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Bob Botts
{K:414} 7/20/2005
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Thanks Mary.
I used to do some hi-res lunar and planetary stuff at ~.5 arcseconds with my 12" SCT. Then I moved and now I'm too far from my bigger scope to make the effort practical.
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Bob Botts
{K:414} 7/20/2005
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Thanks Sonny.
Somewhere in my portfolio, (the image was called 'Planet Medley'), I have an image of Mars at .5 arcseconds from the last close approach. I probably won't be able to replicate that for this season as I don't have the time available this time around and getting the 'seeing' is a matter of luck, (unless you can travel to a location where the upper air mass is typically stable... not usually the case here, near the Great Lakes).
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Den Thompson
{K:30432} 7/20/2005
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Woweeee Bob. TREMENDOUS image. I posted a shot recently which I thought was good but this surpasses it. Fabulous detail. My compliments.
Den
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Bob Botts
{K:414} 7/20/2005
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Thanks Den. I'm impressed with what folks are now doing with their consumer level, off the shelf, digital equipment... it crushes what we were able to do with film, just a few years ago. Once the digital explosion hit, all things seemed possible. Two years ago, my partners and I were combining resources to accumulate data for the moon at a rate of up to 500 gigabytes/evening session. The plan was to contribute to a lunar atlas that was in the making at the time. Here's a sample of one of our first attempts.
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Dave Stacey
{K:120236} 7/21/2005
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Great capture, Bob, you've got excellent detail!
Dave.
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Yamil Saenz
{K:12373} 7/21/2005
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Superb image Bob.
Yesterday's night I took a lot of pictures with different shutter speeds. None of them came close to yours.
Today I have more time, so I will try again.
Attached you will find one of my shots.
Hope to do better tonight.
I added your pic to my favorites.
This is truly a piece of work.
Thank you very much for posting this picture.
Keep up the good job.
Yamil
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Bob Botts
{K:414} 7/21/2005
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Thanks Dave. BTW, congrats on the BIP award.
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Bob Botts
{K:414} 7/21/2005
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Thank you Yamil. (BTW no image was attached.)
I was shooting at ISO 400 for 1/200 sec @ f/10. This was actually two images merged to complete the moon, as the image is too large to fit on the chip at 2000 mm.
I can't recall the details for the smaller image, other than it was a stacked image and shot through a 12" SCT using a webcam.
Later, when we got more sophistacted, we were shooting with webcams, through an IR pass filter and stacking from runs of 1500 frames.
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Darlene Boucher
{K:15649} 7/24/2005
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Wow, incredible image! Great one Bob!
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James Hager
{K:6285} 8/6/2005
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Very nice!
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