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		<title>Messier 57 from Calar Alto Observatory</title>
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The second RECTA / CAHA / DSA collaboration is a portrait of the Messier 57 nebula in Lyra.
These data were acquired mainly through the 1.23 meter Carl Zeiss telescope. It is a rather long exposure of the nebula taken during several nights from July to September:
- 18 hours of optical narrowband data in the H-alpha [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Messier 97 from Calar Alto observatory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad to present the first image from the RECTA / DSA / CAHA collaboration: the planetary nebula Messier 97.

To download higher resolution images, and to know more about this project and the image, please visit the press release at CAHA website:
www.caha.es
The new DSA website:
www.astro-photographer.org
And my website:
www.astrofoto.es
The image has been done with the three CAHA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Living In Space Exhibition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello,
next thursday, December 11th, is the opening of the exhibition &#8220;Viure a l&#8217;Espai&#8230; no és tan diferent&#8221; (&#8220;Life in Space&#8230; not so different&#8221;) here in Valencia, in the Octubre cultural center. Exhibition commissioner is Fernando Ballesteros, and exhibit contains objects related to astronautic world. Space wear, tools, &#8220;space&#8221; Cokes, and a lot of interesting things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=133</link>
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		<title>NGC 7331 with Calar Alto 3.5-meter Zeiss Telescope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This image of NGC 7331 and its surrounding galaxies is my first astrophotographic work with Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA). First I must thank Joao Alves, the Director of the Observatory, because the data for this work have been acquired during his discretionary observational time. Also thanks to Gilles Bergond, the service astronomer who acquired the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Not just pretty pictures: asteroid occultation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides taking pretty (open for interpretation   pictures I used to spend some time doing asteroid occultation work. The other day David Dunham contacted me to attempt an event because the weather in Connecticut had cleared up. I was a little rusty but I succeeded in recording the event with my M110 with video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Open image file window: strange behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
Open image file window show, sometimes and at least in my computer, a very strange behavior:
Please see the aspect, just after start up the program:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6872/01iniciowu2.jpg
This subdirectory (the last used in previous session) shows no file but is not empty at all!!
After pressing green up arrow (parent directory) and left green arrow (back), the files [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=33</link>
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		<title>PI and CFD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello guys,
this is an off topic application to PI.
Well in our job we have a lot of renderizated images from my CFD simulations, usually the renderization is done with paraview (http://www.paraview.org). An standard result is like this image,
http://astrosurf.com/brego-sky/images/InitCyl-7.png

We have been playing with PI to achieve a more  realistic picture of this simulations. After using an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Star Alignment beta 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
I have just finished alignment of 80 images taken on 5 different nights (4 filters) with very promising results.
I cannot show you now results but I will try to post some tomorrow. In a first view, however, FWHM of stars is lower that previous alignment performed with CCDSoft, and I have been also able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Advanced Imaging Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will start this off with a reminder of the upcoming Advanced Imaging Conference (AIC) in San Jose, Calif on November 14 to 16th.  Reason I bring this up here is there will be a Basic workshop on Friday the 14th on PixInsight.  The purpose will be to introduce interested astronomers to this great piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Repeated Instances of PixInsight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this has been on the forum but it continues to be a constant irritant to me.  When you close PixInsight and open a new instance you get instance 2, or 3, etc.  With these new instances you lose your presets such as postion of Process Explorer, Favorites in Process Explorer, etc.  So two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pixinsight.com/blogs/?p=15</link>
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