Thursday, June 2, 2016

iMac OS X Maverick IMAP Email Setup

Fairly new to Macs.
Trying to setup my email to use my providers IMAP Server instead of their POP Server.

The friendly Mac just runs off and configures itself for POP, that's it, no manual setup that I could find.
I solved it by deliberately making a mistake in my email address this made the system prompt me with a manual setup dialog box, I could now select IMAP, and fill in all the details,  my problem solved, maybe yours too.

The same thing just happened on an iPad, same solution, leave a bit out of your email address and it prompts you with a more detailed dialog.

best of luck

Fitzroy Island Southern Cross Region FujiFilm XT1 35mm f1.4


Fitzroy Island is a bit of a trip from home, but a great place for snorkelling, relaxing and if your lucky, Astrophotography.

This is our third trip, and I was lucky enough to capture this shot.

The big bright blob in the top left corner is Omega Centauri  NGC 5139 a cluster of about 10 million stars, I'm feeling very small.

This is a single image with a little bit of post processing. 


Fuji XT1 XF 35mm f1.4 at f2 13 sec ASA 6400


Thursday, December 10, 2015

Meade ETX125 and Fujifilm XT1 and Orion Nebular M42 & Moon

My ETX125 has been sitting idle for quite a while as I've been exploring the world of camera only Wide Field Astro.

I thought it was time to have a go with my new camera. With its very sensitive sensor the long focal length of the ETX may not be as much of a problem, so off to the shed to make an adapter.
The following Pic is taken from our Backyard in Melbourne Australia, never gets very dark where we live. I'm pretty happy with the result.
This is stack of three images, no cropping, the ETX has a narrow field of view.
I'm finding with the Fuji camera that reducing noise by stacking, whilst helpful, is not as important as it used to be with my old camera. A good single image with some "curve", "contrast" and "wavelet denoise" works well, all done with "GIMP"

I tried some more imaging on the following two nights, with poor results due to periodic error.
I must have just been using the good part of my drives "worm" this night. Gives me something to think about... A new mount maybe.




Meade ETX 125.
 Fuji XT1 at Prime Focus.
 25sec. f15. asa25600 stack of three images






Moon
Meade ETX 125 Fuji XT1 At Prime Focus un-cropped











Some Diff Post Processing. Straight out of Camera jpg