Fremont Peak 12/18/2004

by Peter Natscher

I was amazed to see what Richard had imaged up on his laptop with the 180EDT/CCD camera/sulphur filter assy. All the detail visible was astounding. I then looked at NGC 1999 with my 20˛ Starmaster using a UHC filter and 27mm Panoptic eyepiece and saw nothing there but a small faint glow around the brightest star amongst that visually invisible nebula. The bright moon didnšt help me much, either.

As far as eyepieces go, my łsmall˛ collection of them is no comparison to Richardšs collection of telescopes and CCD equipment hešs acquired in the past few years... :-)) But with it, he hasnšt left it on the shelf at all. Hešs made great imaging accomplishments in a relatively short time.

Posted on sf-bay-tac Dec 19, 2004 14:17:06 PT
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