Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:46:30 -0800 From: Jim Ferreira Subject: Re: To the "Big Dogs" >that Jovian shot with the 8" and ganymede is unreal >tell us more how that was done Tom, lives in New Mexico and is apparently graced with some pretty incredible seeing. And he obviously knows what he is doing as well. He's imaging with an $80 Supercircuits PC-23C video surveillance camera head and using a Snappy to capture images to the computer from video tape. The attached image has more info'. Oh, yeah, and the 8 inch f/7 Newtonian is home built. Extremely cool...........just got to hate the guy. Video on... Jim Jim Ferreira -- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA Video-Capture Astrophotography http://www.lafterhall.com mailto:ferreira1@llnl.gov