[LVAS] Digital Imaging Complimentary

[roger ivester]

All,

 

After reading Franks response to how he made an image of the Cone Nebula, I know know why I use a first grader pencil and a bit of paper. I am getting ready to ride with my cycling group and I am still dizzy.

 

Roger

 

Thanks Fred for your kind remark.

 


From: rayworth1969 at hotmail.com
To: lvas at lvlug.org
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:09:23 -0600
Subject: Re: [LVAS] Digital Imaging Complimentary



Roger,
 
Well said!
 
Fred

 


From: drivester at hotmail.com
To: lvas at lvlug.org
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:30:05 +0000
Subject: [LVAS] Digital Imaging Complimentary



All,
 
I have always used photographs to compare my simple pencil sketches after a long night of observing. This is normally the first thing I do the next morning. I look for those faint details in the photo and then compare to my simple sketches. I then go to my "Supernova Search Chart Book" to ID the faint stars surrounding or superimposed in the object. There is so much fun stuff that can be done with an image. 
 
I don't think that I have ever appreciated or enjoyed digital imagery so much as I do now after a year of the Observers Challenge. When I receive an image I don't just look at it, I really "look at it". I was able to pick out a faint galaxy on Dr. Dires image of NGC-2903 that he had missed. Jim is a master and he was surprised that I could see it and he did not. We had a great conversation afterwards.
 
I like to use a large magnification glass and carefully review the entire field. I also turn my computer screen in 100 different directions, well maybe not that many, but be sure to move your screen a bit. Look from the top and bottom. For me, a magnification glass works much better than zooming in on the image. Give it a try.
 
It is always exciting for me to see the work of the APer's each month. I must admit digital imaging is very enjoyable, not as a participate but as a spectator. I just don't have the equipment, the skills and the smarts to be an APer. I will leave this field to the experts.
 
We have a very diverse group, sketching, time lapsed imagery, Rob's Mallincam, and notes.
 
I am going to give a presentation in Greensboro this coming Saturday. This will be a new audience for me as this is near Chapel Hill and Raleigh. This area is referred to as the research triangle. There are some very extraordinary amateurs, and professionals in this area. I am hopeful that we can pick up a few new OC participates or contributors. if this works out well, the Charlotte group has asked me also to give a presentation. Again we may be able to pick up a few more that have never heard of the LVAS Observers Challenge. The name of my presentation is "Visual Observing in a Digital World". The name of the event this coming weekend is called TriStar. An annual event similar to what we do at Gardner-Webb University here in Boiling Springs.
 
We have just celebrated one year of the LVAS Observers Challenge. Rob and Fred have done lv extraordinary job in getting this to a level that we can all enjoy.  There is not any better deep-sky reading anywhere that I am aware of. We have to keep this thing going.
 
If you have not participated before, please, please, consider be a contributor. It is so much fun, and how better can you promote amateur astronomy than helping with something that can be enjoyed and viewed world-wide. 
 
Roger
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 for faint 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
    The moon and stars to govern the night.....   Psalm 136:9






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