http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/tags/ccd/ en Emmanuele Sordini Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:33:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/26/1198706880000.html <img src="http://www.bloomingstars.com/images/mz-5m/mz5mpackage.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <br /> I gloriosi giorni della Sbig ST4 sono da tempo passati. Sono ora a caccia di una camera per autoguida. Ho avuto occasione di provare la ben nota (in Italia) <a href="http://www.magzero.it/MZ-5m.htm">Magzero MZ-5m</a>, che sembra un clone della <a href="http://www.qhyccd.com/QHY5.html">QHY5 Guider Cam</a>. Comunque sia, la esaminiamo pi&ugrave; da vicino per vedere se mantiene le promesse. <a href="http://www.bloomingstars.com/bloomingstars/jsp/go.jsp?id=19"><strong>Cliccare qui</strong></a> per la recensione in italiano!<br /> <br /> The good ol' days of the Sbig ST4 are long gone. I've been hunting for a new autoguiding camera: I've come across the <a href="http://www.magzero.it/MZ-5m.htm">Magzero MZ-5m</a> camera, which is quite popular in Italy and looks very much like a <a href="http://www.qhyccd.com/QHY5.html">QHY5 Guider Cam</a> clone. Anyway, we take a closer look at it to see if it can live up to its specs. Update 28/11/07: a review in english is available <a href="http://www.bloomingstars.com/bloomingstars/jsp/go.jsp?id=20"><strong>here</strong></a>.<p><a href="http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/26/1198706880000.html">Read more...</a></p> Astronomy http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/26/1198706880000.html#comments http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/26/1198706880000.html Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:08:00 GMT http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/04/1196800920000.html It's been quite a while since my last post, let alone an astronomy-related one. However, this does not mean I don't have anything to share! As a matter of fact, I do have a fair backlog of images to process and to post, but it'll take a while as I've been very busy lately. Here's a sample of my october 2007 deep-sky imaging session:<br /> <br /> <div align="center"><img src="http://www.bloomingstars.com/images/two_new_images/ngc253-LRGB2-crop-web.jpg" alt="" /><br /> </div> <br /> which is actually the best image... Click on the link below for the full story!<p><a href="http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/04/1196800920000.html">Read more...</a></p> Website Updates Astronomy http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/04/1196800920000.html#comments http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/12/04/1196800920000.html Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:42:00 GMT http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/09/14/1189721460000.html &quot;Nine objects of desire&quot; is a title of an album by one of my favorite singers, Suzanne Vega. <br /> However, in this case the term &quot;round-up&quot; would probably be more appropriate. No matter what you call it, to me it's a nice set of deep-sky objects:<br /> <br /> <img src="/images/nine_objects/DeepMosaic.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <br /> Click on the link <strong>below</strong> to read the full story!<p><a href="http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/09/14/1189721460000.html">Read more...</a></p> Astronomy http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/09/14/1189721460000.html#comments http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/09/14/1189721460000.html Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:11:00 GMT http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/08/26/1188131640000.html In early August I tried my hand at my newly acquired CCD camera, and above all at manipulating the resulting image. This small report describes all my different attempts to yield the best rendition of M20 (Trifid nebula)'s wispy outer regions.<br /> Here's what I consider my best result yet:<br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="/images/m20_processing/M20DF-smaller.jpg" /><a href="../.http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/images/m20_processing/M20DF-smaller.jpg"><br /> </a><br /> Click on the link below to read the full story. Please note that this page may take a while to load because of the images it contains.<p><a href="http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/08/26/1188131640000.html">Read more...</a></p> Website Updates Astronomy http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/08/26/1188131640000.html#comments http://www.bloomingstars.com:80/2007/08/26/1188131640000.html Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:34:00 GMT