New member self intro

[s24man]

Hi all,

I'm just now exploring the astro forum universe and I thought I'd join.

My name is Stuart, and and I'm an intermediate level astrophotographer in the SF Bay Area.  I'm a member of the Mount Diablo Astronomy Association at mdas.net

My personal interests are deep sky imaging, and astronomy outreach.  I am an active member of the Virtual Star Parties that are hosted on Google Plus and rebroadcast on the website Universe Today at Universetoday.com.  If you Google "Virtual Star Party" you'll find us easily, but Google Plus produced a nice video a couple of years ago.  

 We're there every Sunday unless we're not because of weather (I'm typing this on Sunday night and we cancelled because of weather)

My equipment is a TEC 140 on an Astro-Physics Mach 1 mount.  Camera is a QSI 683 ws-5 with Astrodon Gen 2 filters.  Software is CCD stack and CS5, but I'm slowly learning Pixinsight although it's a slow process for me. Here is a recent reprocess of M81/M82 I did while watching basketball.  https://plus.google.com/118299430429179788192/posts/gj5HT7NcBEb

[Kirscovitch]

Welcome to SGL!

[swag72]

Hi and welcome to SGL - Great kit you have there Stuart, and a nice image. Good to have another imager in the fold!

Look forward to seeing you around

[purdo]

Hi Stuart & Welcome to SGL. Lovely image, looking forward to seeing more. Great video.

[Floater]

Welcome from an infant in the sphere.

[avtaram]

Hello Stuart, welcome to SGL.

Avtar

[Wolfgangwand]

Hi & Welcome from me too . Enjoyed your video, looking forward to seeing your images.

[PeterCPC]

Hi Stuart, welcome to SGL.

Peter

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire  very impressive set up!

[sologuitarist61]

Hi Stuart and a warm welcome to SGL

[baggywrinkle]

Welcome to SGL...nice set up.

[hippie]

Welcome to SGL Stuart  , Nice picture of M81/82.

[Ulaw]

Hello and welcome

[Mr Spock]

Hi Stuart, welcome to SGL

[michigander]

Welcome to SGL, Stuart!

Giants or A's?

Dana

[todd8137]

Hi from me and welcome to Sgl

Pat

[JamesF]

Welcome to SGL

James

[Charon]

Welcome aboard.

[ronl]

Hi Stuart welcome to the lounge

lot's of great imagers here in S G L, nice to

have you with us.

Good Luck and Clear Sky's

[C7tsj]

Welcome to SGL.

Mark

[Bizibilder]

Hello Stuart and welcome to SGL!!

[JamesM]

Hi Stuart and welcome to the forum

Clear skies

James

[andyman]

Welcome to sgl 

[glowjet]

Hi Stuart and welcome to SGL, impressive set up

[HIP3802]

Hi, Stuart, and a warm welcome to SGL!