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05/23/2012 - Annular Eclipse from Chaco Canyon by Josh Knutson

Hi Farah and Jon,

I wanted to follow up with you both and say thanks again. I took my Polarie to Chaco Canyon for the Annular Eclipse and was able to time lapse the entire event. I also took advantage of the Thousand Oaks solar filter you sent me.

I wanted to share some of the results with you. Here are some of the images and stories I've posted on my blog. Feel free to grab any that interest you.

We had at least a few hundred people approach and want to look and photograph through the solar scope, park rangers and photographers alike. At least a dozen fellow astronomers stopped to ask about the Polarie. I pointed them to telescopes.net and told them about the positive experiences I've had working with you both.

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05/22/2012 - Eclipse 2012 by Tom Bash

Here is yesterday's Annular Eclipse, imaged from right on the centerline in Newcastle, Utah, with my Stellarvue 70 mm and double stacked Coronado 60 mm filters:
Seeing was superb (by daytime standards) for this eclipse. I shot 39 video sequences which, when time permits, I will create into a movie. A great time was had by those in attendance.

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05/15/2012 - Galaxy pictures taken from Bear Valley Springs observatory and Borrego Springs By Craig Gates

The first group was taking in Bear Valley Springs Observatory.
I used the Plane Wave 17 and a QSI 583 instead of the STL 1100 wanted to see how it works.

The pictures I shot were NGC 4038 Antennae or Ring Tail Galaxy,the Sombrero Galaxy M104, M83 face on Galaxy, and PLN 164+31.1 Planetary Nebula in Lynx Mag.14 and the Sun Flower M63 Galaxy, and I shot the Pelican Neb. in the area of the eye of the Pelican.

The next bunch was taking out at Borrego Springs, using a Vintage Orange Tube C14 30+ years old.
The camera is a STL 11000M, the mount is a CGE Pro.

The Moon was bright first quarter, so I thought I try shooting Globular. I started with M3, M5, M13, M22 my favorite, and then NGC 5139 the Omega Centauri, I could not find a guild star and the Globular is only up 7.8 Dec.

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04/16/2012 - The Planets by Tom Bash

Last night I was able to image all the planets worth imaging from my place in the Tehachapi's, although Jupiter was shot very low, and Saturn too, through high thin clouds and poorer seeing...

The Mars image was shot when the seeing was best using a 2X Powermate, so it is twice the resolution of the others, which were all shot at prime focus and are to the same scale. Venus is getting bigger as it approaches the June transit.

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04/11/2012 - Bear valley Spring By Craig Gates

Here are some pictures taking last year with the Tele Vue 101 Is. using the STL 11000 and the QSI 583. The mount was a CGE Pro. Processing was done with Maxim DL. Most of the pictures were between 2 and 4 hours total exposure time through astrodon filters.

They were taking in Borrego spring or Bear valley Spring.

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04/06/2012 - The Witch head is in the con by Craig Gates

The Witch head is in the con. Eridanus west of Orion quit faint, I used a Tele Vue 101 Is. Camera was a QSI 583 Mount CGE Pro. All Happily per just at Woodland Hills. All Sub Frames were 10 Min. RGB were 6 each and Lum was 9 Sub. Total time of 4 1/2 Hr.

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04/04/2012 - Orion, Scorpius and Rho Ophiuchi By Josh Knutson

Farah, John,

First of all thank you for all of the help you both gave me when I flew out to visit Woodland Hills. Your shop is very impressive!

I was finally able to fully test out the Vixen Polarie a little over a week ago. Even without a Polar scope, I'm able to track for several minutes with the camera pointed due south where field rotation has the most impact. I took a few shots of Orion and stitched the tiles into a mosaic. I was able to put this data together with only a few hours of total time invested, about 30 minutes per mosaic panel. I've attached the results from my first attempts with the Polarie. I used 120 second exposures for each panel with my modified Canon T1i and 50mm lense @ F/3.5 ISO 800. (One of the images is on Vixen's site as well). I also shot Scorpius and Rho Ophiuchi but only managed 20 minutes @ 60 seconds, but the results were still impressive given the short time.

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03/10/2012 - Mars, Jupiter and Venus by Tom Bash

Last Saturday night I wanted to see if my newer CGEM-DX mount would work with my old C14 optics (it does), and I used my Lumenera camera to take the images on this webpage:

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02/10/2012 - M 45 , Orion M42, Black Eye M46, Rosette Nebulla by Craig Gates

The M 45 taking with Televue 101 Is, QSI 583 camera 2 hours total time 5 min sub. through LRBB. M 42 and the Rosette were taking in borrego springs in late Jan. I used a Tele Vue 101 Is. the camera was QSI 583 mono.

M42 was a total of 2 hours LRGB using 1min sub on lum. and 2 min. on RGB.

The sky was very Dark SQM meter read 21.70, the seeing was average 2 to 3 ark sec. M 64 the black eye was taking with a planewave 17" using a STL 11000 mono 2 hours total ex. 10 min. sub.

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02/01/2012 - Jupiter from the Tehachapi Mts. by Tom Bash

Here are some images I took with my C14 and Lumenera camera from Craig's place in the Tehachapi's over the holiday week. This is the best Jupiter I got on Wednesday night, thanks to Craig's 2X Powermate and good seeing:

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