RE: Antwort: RE: [APML] A Pair of Bradfields

["John C. Mirtle" <spampit@shaw.ca>]

Thanks Stefan,
	I found the image taken with a 200/300 Schmidt, which sounds a lot
like the Celestron 8". Nice! The SXV-H9 would be a good fit. Do you know how
they flattened the field? Even with the physically small H9 detector, the
Schmidt will have a lot of curvature at the focal plane. At f1.5 it would
really show. I am not ready to cannibalize my Schmidt yet, Kodak still make
film. It's nice to know that someone has turned one into a dedicated CCD
astrograph! 

John Mirtle

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On
Behalf Of stefan.beck@voba-schoenbuch.de
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:12 AM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: Antwort: RE: [APML] A Pair of Bradfields


Hi John,

>ike comets, it is still a powerful performer. Now, if someone was to 
>produce a CCD "plug-in" for the 8" Schmidt... :-)

Michael Jaeger and Gerald Rhemann have rebuilt their  Schmidtcameras to use
it with Starlight SXV-H9 CCD - cameras.

Check out www.astrostudio.at for images. Right now they are travelling to
Namibia to catch Neat and Linear and dark skies.
Unfortunately they have no Schmidt with them but the use a kind of Leica APO
lens to produce RGB images ot these two comets.

Stefan



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