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Hi and thanks to all of you , for your kind words!!! and translation for Stalin : Cześć i dzięnkuje bardzo do was wszystkich, za miłe słowa!! @ bamus - please find attached what you wanted to see :-) @ Łukasz83 - it's very simple to make a Herschel Prism, no rocket science here, just the piece of glass - called wedge prism - has to be adequate... the rest is simple construction to fit it to a 2'' mount. Pozdrawiam, Cata

Thanks Adam! I learn Polish everyday :-), but it is hard, and I'm not able to follow yet a full conversation in Polish. Maybe you can see my posts here, that I put once in a while, as a 'stain' of color added to this very very nice forum/community!! Thanks mlody188!!

Hello, I have managed to capture some AVIs of the Sun, in white light, during the Star-Party in Jodłów and I have processed one that shows the AR 1302 region. The results are ok given the imaging setup and you can see also the eruption that took place that day over this Active Region, as white streaks in the spots on the right side of the image. Hope you'll like it!! Details of equipment used: CFF 127mm f7 AS oilspaced refractor Meade TeleXtender 3x self-made Herschel Prism PGR Chamelon 125 best frames out of 1650 in Avistack 2 Wavelets in AstraImage Color in PS Pozdrawiam, Catalin

Hi, here are my pictures, taken from the terrace of my apt building, in Krakow. Wide angles are made with 550D + Canon 24-105 f4 L , close'up is through my 102mm oilspaced refractor, no amplification, EOS 550D, HDR fusion from 5 images (1.6s - 8s) @ ISO400. Hope you'll like them! Catalin p.s. even if is off-topic, the NLCs cloud picture was in the opposite direction of the Eclipse, so it was fun

Thanks Columbo, Poland gave me the opportunity to catch 2 solar transits of the ISS, both shortly after undocking of the Shuttle. First one is made in March and here it is. The moment is better in the March transit but unfortunately, sun was low in the sky and hence the distance to the ISS bigger so the size was smaller. Hopefully the next ISS transit will have same good timing!! Data is below Date: 07.03.2011 Subject: ISS transit 1 frame @ ISO 100, 1/1000s CFF 102/640 APO Herschel Prism Telextender Meade 2x, Canon EOS 550D Pixinsight, PS CS5 Author: Cătălin Fus

Thanks Pablito! Did you had also a transit in your area? It is usually on a very narrow band (5-6km)...you can check with calsky.com. Regards Cata

Many thanks to all of you who congratulated me!! Cata

Hi, this was photographed today at 07:58:34, local time, in the South of Krakow, hope you like it! There is field curvature because of the Powermate I have used to capture it. Details here : Date: 30.05.2011 Subject: ISS + Endeavour transit 1 frame @ ISO 100, 1/1600s GPU Optical 102/640 APO Herschel Prism Tv Powermate 2.5x, Canon EOS 550D PS CS5 Author: Cătălin Fus Regards Catalin

Hi again, as promised, I had the time today and made it to catch the ISS + Endeavour transit. You can find the picture on the front page of my website www.catalinfus.ro together with the details. Adam, please let me know if you want me to post this on other topic! Regards Cata

I should invite you to Romania !! We have there some of the darkest skies you can have around...unfortunately access is not so good and accommodation, the same situation. Measured sky darkness in the location of last year star-party was 21.6 magn/ sq arsec... also...the height of some locations help, being at almost 2000m you're above much of the worst atmosphere can throw at you. anyway, I'll keep in touch with Lukasz Kempinsky and I'll found out where you'll have the star-party arranged. Regards Cata

Ok, understood! many thanks for both invitations then :-). Adam, where is taking place this year's star party in Autumn? Regards Cata

Gregohr and Adam, are you talking about the same event? Zatom , between 29th September - 2 October? I'll have to check if this event is superimposed to some events in Germany that I have to attend because of my business, if not, I'll gladly come. It is possible that Robert put me on the list but I didn't knew it. I had a discussion with him about this star-party but as I have seen is 7h+ driving distance, it was not possible for me to come anyway and I choose to go in Bieszczady instead if weather allowed it.....it didn' :-( so this year , until now, it is 'bez-starparty'. Regards Cata

Hi Cata nice to see Romanian brother among us! I hope that Your problems with some of our forum-mates will be solved soon - if not just give us know and we'll fix it in Slovian style, trust me ! Hi Paweł, nice to meet you and I'm glad I have received many 'welcome' messages! Time will resolve this problem, one way or the other...we'll see :-)! BTW in Romania is quite strong community of occultation observers - do You know them? Well, if you give me some names, I can tell you if I know them or not. My friends from Bucharest are usually going out in a group of 8-10 people, maybe more. I do not know for sure if you are talking about them or not. About our national disadvantages - yes we are less open and trustful than in southern coutry but thanks to that we are better friends after longer period. Hopefully I'll see that :-)! So welcome on our forum and see You on one of our Zlot - Sky Party. I'll gladly come if I will know about it! You are talking about different meetings than those initiated by astropolis? Regards, Cata

Hi Janko, it is the second invitation in 24h, so I'll gladly come!! Just have to pack, get the family in the car and on the road we are!! :-)) Joking aside, I'll make a trip to Lukasz Kempinsky in about two weeks so I'll be around Warsaw if you want to talk during 10-12th of June. I'll gladly meet you :-). I have built a Classical Cassegrain , 250mm f/20 and we are meeting to 'evaluate it' . I hope also the problem will be solved but I have close to Zero hopes :-). Regards Cata

Adam, I will as I have no choice :-). Everyone who wants to see my work can access it on my personal webpage: www.catalinfus.ro On the front page is the transit I have photographed from Wielka Wies, near Krakow, and it was the last undocking of SS Discovery. Seeing was not good and ISS was small (27arsec) so the details are not impressive but the picture made it 3 days on spaceweather as first page picture and is featured on some French and Spanish magazines, NASA's solar picture on facebook etc. If the weather will be on my side, I'll gladly share pictures taken next Monday. Cata