Smokedaddy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:20 pm
Very nice. Look great to me. I wonder if Klaus Kemp is still making slides. Last time I spoke with him (via email) he wasn't.
Very sadly, he stopped. I probably got the last ever order from him and it took many months. This is party due to covid-19 and partly due to some hardware issues. Nevertheless, I wasn't in a rush and the slides landed safely. Customs didn't steal any. Royal post is very slow but it seems reliable. It takes a lot of time to make larger exhibitions.
As of now, there's one Italian seller (diatomlabs) and another in the Netherlands. Diatomlabs' slides are incredibly expensive, I'll get myself some when the hole caused by my microscope is sealed back up.
I compared my result to many others, it now seems alright. Spent all night fiddling with ZS to get the details I want. I'm using Lanczos8 (16X16) and an estimation radius of 5-10 if anyone's interested, Dmap of course.
My phase annulus was obviously off-centre. I don't have a centring telescope but looking straight through the TL with the camera dismounted seems to do the exact same thing, now centred. I suppose I can slap a basic telescope using the optics I have, ehhh lazy.