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PixInsight => General => Off-topic => Topic started by: jdonald on 2011 March 14 16:28:48

Title: Just Purchased, Can't wait to use it.
Post by: jdonald on 2011 March 14 16:28:48

Hello Everyone I just wanted to introduce myself.  My name is Jeff and I am from Halifax, NS Canada and I just bought Pixinsight after using the trial for a few months.  I grew up with this hobby primarily as a solo visual observer, with over 20 years of visual observing under my belt I wanted to see if AP would be an interest and sure enough it is!  I started with a Neximage taking pics of the moon and planets and Comets (Holmes).  I wanted more, I wanted to take wide field.  I used mainly a point and shoot Canon SD750 taking many exposures of 15 seconds each and attempting to stack them.  There is alot of noise with a point and shoot. 

I now want to start taking serious images of DSOs of all types.  I was always intrigued by it and I asked for a Canon Rebel EOS T1i (500D).  Started taking wide-field shots of Orion, Pleiades, Auriga with ok results.  The star-trailing really annoyed me even on short exposures.  I then begged for an Orion F4 8" Astrograph for Christmas and I actually got it, thanks to my wife.  I had an old EQ5 I used to try it out visually.  A member of the Halifax RASC (thanks Blair) lent me a T Adapter and I tried it out with my 12" Skywatcher Collapsible Dob.  It was absolutely STUNNED at the quality I could pick up with a Dob that wasn't tracking the stars.  Yeah there was massive star trails but there was color in M42!  I hooked up my Orion to the EQ5 one cold night to try M42 again, I was again amazed at the quality from an unguided/undriven mount, but that wasn't enough! It was too heavy for my little EQ5 and I asked for Gift cards to Atlantic Photo Supply in Halifax to get a Celestron CGEM and a Celestron Nexguide and I just picked that up on the weekend and played a bit with setup as it has been cloudy for weeks it seems.  Thankfully I will be able to "hopefully" try on All Star Align tomorrow night for a bit to familiarize myself with the new mount then I will need to try out the ADM guidescope package, when I get an aluminum drill bit.

I can't wait to get started in this AP hobby and I can't wait to share it all with the community.

- Jeff

PS.. I received the download link with my Username and a password thats all ---------------------.  So I can't download it needless to say.  Do I have to highlight specific -'s to reveal the hidden password? ;)

Title: Re: Just Purchased, Can't wait to use it.
Post by: Nocturnal on 2011 March 14 17:25:43

Hi Jeff,

welcome to the forum! You have an interesting journey ahead of you :)

You should have a username and a password to let you in at http://dist.pixinsight.com . If not, contact Pleiades through support@pixinsight.com . I imagine replying to your license email should do the trick.

Title: Re: Just Purchased, Can't wait to use it.
Post by: zvrastil on 2011 March 15 03:56:13

Quote from: Nocturnal on 2011 March 14 17:25:43

I imagine replying to your license email should do the trick.

I think standard pixinsight emails come from unmonitored mail accounts. I'm not sure about support@pixinsight.com. Contact webform always works.

Title: Re: Just Purchased, Can't wait to use it.
Post by: jdonald on 2011 March 15 04:12:53

Thanks for the replies.  I contacted support and they quickly resolved the issue.

Thanks to the many online video tuts I am learning quite a bit from them.

Thanks
Jeff

Title: Re: Just Purchased, Can't wait to use it.
Post by: Harry page on 2011 March 15 13:33:33

Hi

welcome to the group  :D

Look forward to seeing some of your images


Harry