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Cloudy Nights Home I used to do a lot of astrophotography, I joined Cloudy Nights in 2003 (!) and was very active, was even a mod for a while, but got out of the hobby as life got more and more busy and I had less and less spare time At the peak I had several telescopes, a beautiful AP900 GOTO mount, SBIG camera, ST4 guider, filter wheel with RGB and narrowband filters, the whole deal The good news is nice
Articles - Cloudy Nights I used to do a lot of astrophotography, I joined Cloudy Nights in 2003 (!) and was very active, was even a mod for a while, but got out of the hobby as life got more and more busy and I had less and less spare time At the peak I had several telescopes, a beautiful AP900 GOTO mount, SBIG camera, ST4 guider, filter wheel with RGB and narrowband filters, the whole deal The good news is nice
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The Cloudy Nights Friends and Family Discount We have had the honor of owning Cloudy Nights since 2005 The goal of Cloudy Nights is simple Keep the atmosphere family friendly; don’t load the site down with advertising (including our own); and keep the site free to the community The mods and admins do a great job of keeping the site friendly
14mm 100 degree Explore Scientific Eyepiece - Cloudy Nights Most amateur astronomer would agree that Televue has set and been the gold standard in premium quality wide field eyepieces, offering superbly crafted, well corrected, flat field, chromatically sound eyepieces at a premium price Al Nagler and company have consistently produced eyepieces that ama
Takahashi FCT-76 - 60mm - 78mm Refractors - Cloudy Nights Background: I saw this scope on the Anacortes website and knew right away it would be special - a compact 3" triplet apochromat refractor that can be used for very wide-field (or for that matter; lunar, solar, planetary, and limited deep-sky) observing, astrophotography, or as an upscale guidesco
Finding the Optimal Sub-frame Exposure - Cloudy Nights Finding the Optimal Sub-frame Exposure Length for Astrophotography Abstract There has been a great deal of discussion about the optimal sub-frame exposure length and papers have been written on the subject This paper discusses the issues of noise from all sources in astrophotography and attempts to find the optimal sub-frame exposure length from both the mathematics and empirical data The
Celestron 9. 25: A Good Scope But No Real Mystery - Cloudy Nights The Decision I admit it One of the reasons I first looked at this odd-sized Schmidt-Cassegrain was that, like so many others, I had heard the internet born rumors surrounding the Celestron 9 25 Although no one could explain exactly why, this SCT was thought to be different One of the early rev
APM 140mm DOUBLET APO REFRACTOR - Cloudy Nights APM 140mm DOUBLET APO REFRACTOR by Lawrence Carlino One of the greatest thrills in amateur astronomy is providing a first telescopic look at the moon or Saturn at a public venue The “Ooh, Wow!” and “This has to be a fake!” comments more than compensate for the rigors of transporting and setting
A guide to Astronomical seeing. - Cloudy Nights Fig 01: Sunset at the Paranal Observatory in Chile – site of the VLT’s Considered by many to the best location on Earth for high resolution Astronomy (Courtesy ESO ) Introduction An observer, be they at a mountain top observatory, or in their own back yard must, at all times contend with the Ea