TAG D70
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
M81 and M82, Spiral Galaxies in Ursa Major
Another try at this pair. Starting to get some detail on the spiral arms on M81. More magnification wouldn’t hurt; I have plenty of FOV to spare (this was cropped by about […]
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M42, The Great Orion Nebula
Never thought it would take this long to get back to M42… This was my original attempt, a stack of ten 2min subframes. Here’s the image with some more data added (details […]
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
M81 and M82, Spiral Galaxies in Ursa Major
M81 and M82, Galaxies in Ursa Major Edge-on galaxy (Cigar-shaped) M82 and neighbor M81. First shots in awhile. Got some good weather all the way through December and into January, finally took […]
Re: D70 IR — thanks!
Hi Jimbo, Thanks to you for your appreciations! Best regards, Mike. > Hi bigmike, > > I just wanted to let you know that your DIY Nikon D70 IR remote > concept […]
RE: parallel port protocol for DSLRControl
Jimbo, Yes, the camera control is just like a “relay”. The software just toggles the state of the parallel port pin. So you should be able to interface your microcontroller easily. Steve […]
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
Re: raw image from modified D70
Hi Jimbo, The image is a jpeg not NEF (Nikon’s raw format). My recollection is that there might be a plug-in from the Nikon website that Photoshop needs. I am using CS2 […]
Re: D70 IR conversion
HI Jimbo, Thanks for sending this. I am not sure if I’ll do this but it is a very good source of info. Alex On Aug 22, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Jimbo […]
Re: D70 remote timings
http://www.thomasandamy.com/jimbo/D70Ctrl.zip There is an exe in there, if you pass in a config file at the command line, i’ll run that, otherwise the menus let you pretty much do anything you want […]
ATM / Electronics / Gear
D70 IR Intervalometer
This is a great little device of my own invention; it’s a “smart” IR remote control for the Nikon D70. I set it for exposure length, exposure count, and delay between exposures, […]
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M20, The Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius
I am continually amazed at how much data the modified camera is picking up down in the light polluted muck near the horizon. The weird “box” artifact is from the application that […]
RECENT UPDATE
Polar Alignment Calculations
Here’s a page that derives Polar Alignment Calculations. (update 5/2020: the original site is gone, so I found the text on Wayback and am inserting it below. This is by the original […]
Gear / Observatory / Telescope
Special Guest Star takes the mount at Hilltop O
The Astro Jedi needed somewhere to store his light sab—- I mean, bucket, and I was only too happy to accommodate him. I have decided that I need to come to a […]
General / Maintenance / Observatory
Dome shutter is motorized again!
I finally decided to bite the bullet and fix the shutter motor. Things went sideways last winter, and I’ve been opening the shutter manually (and tying it shut with rope, so we […]
Trixie 2017 – tube mods
I finally got around to cutting the MTA-UTA tubes to length; the only eyepiece that would come to focus with the focuser spacer in place is the Televue 55mm Plossl. If I […]
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Mount / Observatory / Telescope
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Gear / General / Maintenance
Martin Farmer Wormblock installation notes
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
NGC2244, The Rosette Nebula
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
Another beautiful night.