After Reading.....................................

Got a number of DSO image "Subs" processed from Okie-Tex, but not ready for prime time.

Here's my "PhotoBucket" link to a few of the Images I've produced.

http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd447/Tex2024/Tex2024%20AstroPhotos/

Hope you like them.

Heading down to "The ElDorado Star Party" next weekend for another week of "shooting". Needless to say, hoping for clear, dark skies.

Jim (TEX) H.

Oh, and, by the way "skildude", how did I quess the "school" was a Medrasah without "clicking" it ?
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This is not a medrassa. What the organization does is provide local communities material and expertise in building long lasting structures and schools. The only requirement for acceptance is that all children including girls are educated.

THe idea is that an educated girl is less likely to have children early, they provide needed skills to their community, lead healthier lives, and educated women, even in remote villages, are less likely to allow their sons to go on a gihad.

Funny that the mother hold the key against holy warriors. Mom says no and the boy is unlikely to go.

read the Book Three cups of Tea. It gives incite into how to improve everyones lives
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Proud member of TSWB.

End terrorism by building a school

I'm betting he's got a computer assisted-guided scope with a timed exposure photo
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Proud member of TSWB.

End terrorism by building a school

Uhhh, Ya-yuh.

ED80 APO, for guiding with an Orion SS Autoguide Cam; sitting on top of an ED127 APO Triplet, Using either my Canon 450D/XSi or an Orion SSDS Color Imager for most DSO imaging.
All this on an Altlas EQ-G mount.

Control is handled with "PHD Guide", "MaximDL" (for focus,imaging, plate resolution) , "The SkyX" or "Cartes du Ceil" for calibration and sync.
I use a Dell Laptop to bring it all together.

Both scopes are great for photography; the 80 is either for Guiding or does a fine job on wider field work. The ED127mm APO/Trip is my primary imaging Refractor.

http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd447/Tex2024/Tex2024%20AstroPhotos/

Regards,
Jim
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His photos are fin good and he has already mentioned that they are composits of many
shots .Thats the way N.A.S.A. does it.

I wish I had the money and the clear skies, Even if one thing changes,the other never will.

john3760
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Me again,

Actually, I built my first scope from a kit when I was 13(1957).
I had to grind and polish the primary and assemble the eyepieces.

It was a 4" Reflector on a swivel mount that had screw-in legs.
The kit came with a 40mm, a 10mm, and a tiny 3mm.

I bought it through an ad in "Mechanics Illustrated" for $40.00.
That was a LOT OF $$$ back then! But, then again, I had a very large "Paper Route".

Took me about six months to finish it all and I remember to this day, the thrill of my own "First Light".
I could actually see the rings of Saturn.


.Now, I'm lookin' fer a "ET" to phone us.


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Damn budgets, always getting in the way of progress!

500 years ago, it was the Catholic church holding us in the stone-age, now it's accountants!

We were supposed to be inhabiting Mars and exploring the heavens by now. Not sat here on our little rock saying "oh it's too expensive".

It's only TOO EXPENSIVE because the Military-Industrial complex controls the US now...has for a long time....

If there was a military necessity to control Mars, we would have been there a long time ago...Lt