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2008 June 11

Website News

Image Gallery Enhancements
There are now new ways to browse the image galleries: The LC, SX, H5, M5, M9, HX9, and M25C galleries now have a thumbnail view mode, while the LC, SX, MX512, H5, M5, M5C, M7, and M9 galleries now have a slide show mode available.

FAQ Update
Some stale links on the FAQ page have been updated.

Under the Hood...
We are currently in the process of switching registrars for our domain name so if this site disappears temporarily, you will know why! Hopefully any interruption will be short-lived and we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

2007 December 31

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: M1, M20, M27, and NGC 6946 LRGB images by Bob Lockwood.

2007 December 22

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: Sh2-155/Lbn 527/Ldn1215/Vdb155 LRGB & mono images by Günter Kerschhuber.
SXV-H9 Gallery: Sh2-187/LDN1318 LRGB & mono images by Günter Kerschhuber.
SXV-H9 Gallery: IC 1848 image by Robbert Koornwinder.

New Links

The Links page has a new link to Robbert Koornwinder's website (SXV-H9 images).

New "Gallery"

A new Random Image Chooser has been added to the main page. Give it a spin!
2007 December 5

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: M16 SIIHaOIII image by Bob Lockwood.
SXV-H9 Gallery: LBN 640 LRGB image by Günter Kerschhuber.
SXV-H9C Gallery: IC 5146 image by Gary Breneman.

2007 July 9

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: M27 HaRGB image by Pierre Tremblay.
SXV-H9 Gallery: M3 RGB and M8 SIIHaOIII images by Bob Lockwood.

Website News

The Camera Model Popularity page has been updated.

2007 May 8

Website News

The software page has a new link to the Starlight Xpress page on installing SXV drivers under Windows Vista.

There is a new page for the new SXVF-H35 & H36 cameras (11 & 16 megapixels).

2007 May 7

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: NGC 3718, NGC 4244 images by Günter Kerschhuber.
SXV-H16 Gallery: M63, NGC 4449 images by Dietmar Hager.
SXV-M25 Gallery: NGC 4631 image by Dietmar Hager.

New Links

The Links page has a new link to Sal Merola's website (MX5, MX716, SXV-H9 images).
2007 March 27

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: M81 image by Rob Pollard.
SXV-M25 Gallery: M33, NGC 7023, and NGC 4565 images by Warren Keller.

New Links

The Links page has a new link to Joaquin and Yago Ferreiros's website (SXV-H9 images).

Website News

The SX, HX916, SXVF-H9/H9C/H16/M8C/M25C gallery images now have improved page layouts, many allow hiding the image info.

IP4AP PhotoShop Tutorials

IP4AP has announced the launch of Adobe Photoshop Intermediate Series, featuring 10 streaming movie tutorials thus far dealing with Curves, Uneven Field Illumination and other goodies. They are committed to at least two more a month and these are offered at a very reasonable intro price of US $29.99. IP4AP also continues to offer the online one-on-one sessions at $20 per hour which is a very powerful teaching tool. Be sure to visit their site at http://www.ip4ap.com/

2007 February 27

New Images

SXV-H9 Gallery: NGC 2146 image by Günter Kerschhuber.
SXV-M7 Gallery: M42/43 LRGB, NGC 1977 HaRGB images by Sergio Eguivar.
SXV-M7 Gallery: B33, NGC 2070, and NGC 2244 Ha false colour images by Sergio Eguivar.

New Links

The Links page has a new link to Bob Lockwood's website (SXV-H9 and SXV-M25 images).
2007 February 12

New Images in the SXVF-H9 Gallery:

NGC 7023, M 45 (both LRGB images),
NGC 7635, IC 405 (both HaLRGB images),
NGC 7293 HaRGB, and NGC 2244 SIIHaOIII images by Bob Lockwood.
2007 February 5

New Images in the SXVF-H9 Gallery:

M81 & M82 HaLRGB image by Bob Lockwood.
M27 HaRGB image by Ladislav Krejca.

by Günter Kerschhuber:

2007 January 23

New Images

SXVF-H9C Gallery: M1, NGC 891, NGC 2903, NGC 2392, and NGC 7331 images by Dietmar Hager.

Links Page
A column for the SXVF-M25 has been added to the links page.