Author: Roland Roberts
Unbalanced – Not!
Well, after spending a lot of time remachining the bar on which I mount the cameras to give me better control over where they are mounted left-right, I concluded I didn’t have a balance problem to start with. The pier is not vertical so when the counterweight bar settled it appeared I was overweight on …
Unbalanced
No, not me (well…), it’s my scope. I loaded everything onto my MI-250 as planned for next week and discovered I can’t get a good balance left-right (uhm, declination). It’s that 300mm f/4 lens on the Pentax 67. I had a clever idea that suffered the same fate as many of my clever ideas—it didn’t …
Canon DSLR + ImagesPlus
This post is coming after a long set of troubleshooting exercises along with what is hopefully a happy ending. The Canon-supplied software for computer control of the camera will only talk to one camera at a time. You can’t even launch two instances of it. Aaarrgh! Well, actually not that bad since I wasn’t planning …
SAC 8-II Woes, Solution?
Well, I contacted the seller of the camera about my problems and he said he had a similar problem, also with his laptop, and the problem was the parallel port. The troubleshooting guide also mentions that as a warning and says some people have reported problems with IBM laptops. Of course, I have an IBM …
SAC 8-II Woes
I purchased a used SAC 8-II off astromart a few weeks ago after which it promptly sat in the box apart from a cursory examination. The intent was to use it as a light-weight autoguider. I quickly installed the software and "tested" it without being attached to anything. I was getting a signal out of …
Truncated (large) images in Gallery2 — not!
I was having a problem on with using Gallery’s image block which requires loading PHP code . It would usually work just fine, but for some reason, the image was occasionally truncated. Since I have access to the backend, I could look at the raw file and knew it had uploaded just fine. Turns out …
G2Image, nothing but thumbnails
It turns out that g2image can only insert thumbnails. There’s apparently a hack for the WordPress users and the ability to insert full images (and then they can use TinyMCE edit/scale them). I’ll have to keep checking to see when that’s available.
Fighting with G2Image
Okay, it’s not really fighting, but if feels that way. I misunderstood the instructions for setting up g2image and put the plugin under modules/tinymce/plugins because that directory already existed and had something in it, namely drupalbreak. Oops, that’s not where it is supposed to go, it has to go under modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins. The clue came after …
NEAIC Finishes
It was a busy day with a long talk by Ron Dantowitz who was trying to make up for lost time after missing yesterday’s talk due to a family emergency. I was a bit conflicted since I would have liked him to finish a bit earlier in order to have time for lunch, but on the other hand, I loved every minute of the talk. Of course, some of it was just being green with envy for his job!
NEAIC: Tony Hallas
Tony Hallas had the opening talk discussing deep-sky processing talk with a lot of useful information about his workflow. There were a number of useful tips on using Photoshop, and once again there was a large emphasis on signal-to-noise ratios. The fun part of the talk was the introduction which covered the history of astrophotography …