Starship Asterisk*

Seeing how the other strange streak thread made 140 and some odd pages. I thought some people would like to have a crack at this one. :) I was going thru some images I took of m42 and I noticed this wierd line that occurs in both sets of pictures. http://s118412259.onlinehome.us/anomaly.jpg This was...

Couldnt you load a full tower with serveral DVD burners with dual layer capability? That way you could cram twice as much on one disk and burn more than one disk at a time. Also has anyone looked into file compression technologies like ZIP, ACE or RAR?

Is it just me or is there a lot of light pollution at the rosemary hill concam? It seems like the image is really light or cloudy all the time?

feeling?

Maybe a piece of space junk just happened to be rotating at the right speed and caught the sun just right?

Sunspots dont usually make the news check the archive images on the SOHO site to satisfy curiosity.

Its simply the moon climbing across the sky. The reason it appears to change in size is because dew collects more on the tip of the dome rather than the edges. As the moon climbs it gets diffused more and more due to the increased dew at the tip of the dome making it seem bigger. Bring up NSL images...

You guys may want to look at a "tropicalized" Canon EF "L" series lenses I know some of them are specifically designed to hold up in some really adverse conditions. I dont think they have a tropicalized fisheye but you could probably find out where they placed "O" rings...

Thanks for the reply. Yes the canary island one works but it always looks to grainy to pick out anything fake. Thanks again keep up the good work. I just liked the Rosemary Hill one because I can evaluate the seeing conditions before I go out.

http://home.comcast.net/~emoticonfury/concams.jpg For about the past week now there have been several concams that wont show up for me. The canary island and south africa ones always seem to distorted to detect anything star like. The Rosemary Hill concam has been showing the same image for days no...