Stargazers Lounge Uses Cookies
Like most websites, SGL uses cookies in order to deliver a secure, personalised service, to provide social media functions and to analyse our traffic. Continued use of SGL indicates your acceptance of our cookie policy.
-
Welcome to Stargazers Lounge
Register now to gain access to all of our features. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to contribute to this site by submitting your own content or replying to existing content. You'll be able to customise your profile, receive reputation points as a reward for submitting content, while also communicating with other members via your own private inbox, plus much more! This message will be removed once you have signed in.
Forums
-
Welcome
-
- 287,634
- posts
-
-
Beginners
-
- 253,008
- posts
-
- 150,655
- posts
-
- 45,056
- posts
-
- 135,463
- posts
-
-
Community
-
- 8,407
- posts
-
SGL Challenges and Competitions
- Imaging Challenge - Announcements / Winners
- Imaging Challenge #30 - Celestial Motion
- Imaging Challenge #29 - Beauty of the Night Sky (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #28 - Lunar Landings (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #27 - DSLR / Mirrorless (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #26 - 30 Seconds Unguided (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #25 - Solar (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #24 - Android vs iOS (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #23 - The Terminator Challenge (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #22 - Christmas Present Challenge (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #21 - Comet 46P (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #20 - Constellations (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #19 - SNRs and PNs (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #18 - Globular Clusters (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #14 - Planets (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #13 - Lunar Close-ups (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #12 - Open Clusters (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #11 - A Galaxy Far, Far Away (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #10 - Smartphones & Tablets (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #9 - RGB (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #8 - Widefield (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #7 - Lunar (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #6 - Narrowband DSO (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #5 - Solar & Solar Eclipse (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #4 - Noctilucent Clouds (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #3 - 30 Second Exposures (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #2 - Jupiter (Now Closed)
- Imaging Challenge #1 - Satellites (Now Closed)
- Published Members
- 5,546
- posts
-
- 14,695
- posts
-
- 33,487
- posts
-
- 3,174
- posts
-
- 374,103
- posts
-
-
Retailers
-
- 21,561
- posts
-
- 1,145
- posts
-
- 106
- posts
-
- 1,965
- posts
-
-
Astro Classifieds
-
- 29,242
- posts
-
- 7,323
- posts
-
-
Equipment
-
- 270,706
- posts
-
- 17,279
- posts
-
- 83,502
- posts
-
- 97,250
- posts
-
- 64,090
- posts
-
- 428
- posts
-
- 45,828
- posts
-
- 110,907
- posts
-
- 44,341
- posts
-
- 40,111
- posts
-
-
Observing
-
- 33,169
- posts
-
- 39,900
- posts
-
- 21,274
- posts
-
- 8,449
- posts
-
- 19,475
- posts
-
- 22,474
- posts
-
- 13,038
- posts
-
- 10,008
- posts
-
- 16,006
- posts
-
-
EEVA (Electronically Enhanced Visual Astronomy)
-
- 624
- posts
-
- 17,718
- posts
-
-
Imaging
-
- 85,158
- posts
-
- ASIair - wow
- By Ant
-
- 22,637
- posts
-
- 40,575
- posts
-
- 1,121
- posts
-
- 73,880
- posts
-
- 111,343
- posts
-
- 99,091
- posts
-
- 289,359
- posts
-
- 48,693
- posts
-
- 597
- posts
-
-
Science
-
- 1,103
- posts
-
- 6,031
- posts
-
- 22,150
- posts
-
- 6,846
- posts
-
.thumb.jpg.bdaa2a543a93d5c380d2540168573de6.jpg)
.thumb.jpg.c47374a6683e32d3dc091264f4ea0ffa.jpg)
.thumb.jpeg.66b323510e61c523405034fafde65e47.jpeg)
-
Member Statistics
-
Forum Statistics
350,458
Total Topics3,877,133
Total Posts -
Who's Online 62 Members, 0 Anonymous, 338 Guests (See full list)
- AstroSun87
- Helen
- MarkAR
- Nakedgun
- DaveS
- Ken82
- Robbrad
- cwis
- IB20
- michael.h.f.wilkinson
- david_taurus83
- geoflewis
- KevS
- souls33k3r
- Jason_G
- Kev M
- daemon
- Martthebass
- knobby
- Peter Drew
- Jkulin
- StuartJPP
- andrew63
- hobbes22
- Vaw
- Jem7
- Ant
- heliumstar
- Solar B
- JamesF
- Captain Magenta
- Merlin66
- Rustang
- ScouseSpaceCadet
- jogrady
- ramdom
- Padraic M
- SpookyKatt
- philhilo
- Hertford Stargazer
- Spikey
- Alien 13
- mcrowle
- Daznok55
- Tippon
- Dan13
- assouptro
- DeathWarpedUp
- Marcos Correa
- nonlinear
- geordie85
- AweSIM
- vineyard
- fireshipjohn
- HollyHound
- johninderby
- jiberjaber
- Maddie B
- don4l
- fwm891
- paul acreman
- MushroomBill
-
Recent Posts
-
The tail of the comet is dust which reflects sunlight. The brighter head (coma) seems to be "glowing" and the Sodium atoms are excited emitting a prominent band at 5890A. There's also emission from the Swan bands between 4440 and 5600A, the CH emission at 4300A is also evident -
Belated goodnight Gina Back from another walk up the road, this time with a camera and tripod as I found a grass triangle just off the road. Not sure if I can post anything now, but I'll see in the morning. Also got some Milky Way shots from home when I got back. -
By ScouseSpaceCadet · Posted
Even better tonight. Thank you weather gods! I went out into the back garden at 1130 and NEOWISE was an obvious naked eye object. Over an hour later I'm still turning around from observing Jupiter through the 102 Mak to sneak a peek through the binos. Magnificent! -
By michael.h.f.wilkinson · Posted
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE at 50 mm: 100 mm and 200 mm Will see how my data stack tomorrow -
Luckily between houses, Canon 600D, Altair 72 ED-R, 100 ISO, 3.2 s. Remembered to focus this time. Naked eye object at the moment.
-
-
Recent Topics
-
-
Latest Classifieds
-
-
Recent Status Updates
-
Weather on the East Coast has gone into a serious decline. Rain wind and more rain. Haven't been able to see Comet NEOWISE, the Moon or anything vaguely celestial for several days. In a rush of blood to the head and during a brief period of sunlight yesterday morning, I decided to affix my triangular Australian 'Sun break' to its wall mounted anchor rings. Spent the afternoon regularly emptying the pooling rainwater from its distended fabric embrace. Made the informed choice of taking it down before 'the wind got up' and we all went impromptu wind surfing. Today, the gale has abated but the rain remained tropical until about 23:00 when low and behold we have stars. Wandered the neighbourhood with my 'big bins' trying to find a location with a sufficiently low northern horizon, to enable a quick view of comet NEOWISE, but sadly without success. Eyed with suspicion by a number of late night revellers returning home. Probably a wise fashion choice, not to have worn the knitted black ski-mask!· 0 replies
Saturn and Jupiter looking good but still too low to use my pier mounted refractor. Will try and get some video using my old 90mm ETX mounted on the 'star adventurer'. With my patio doors open I reckon I could capture some planetary pictures without having to leave the house. According to Metcheck, the next cloud free night will be on Wednesday. Will set up the rig tomorrow - just in case.
Now in my Lowestoft slumber chariot awaiting Morpheus.
Night night Stargazers
-
Very windy here on the East Coast tonight. Lots of clouds scudding about. Jupiter and Saturn are accompanying the full Moon in its low course across my southern horizon. I have been hanging out of our back bedroom window taking a few pictures. I'm sure this sort of eccentric behaviour will result in my acquisition of a dubious neighbourhood reputation.🙃· 0 replies
Nighty night stargazers
-
-
-
Yet another beautiful day on the east coast. Went for a walk along the dunes at Winterton on Sea. Watched the little terns fishing and return to shore beaks crammed with silver fish. Was watched in turn by a suspicious seal.· 0 replies
As the evening was clear I decided to photograph Jupiter and Saturn rising up over the sea from a vantage point on Corton Cliffs near Lowestoft. Got some nice widefield images with my Canon Dslr simply mounted on a standard tripod at f=18/mm. and ISO 1600 and 3200 - 10sec exposures. Will try stacking them tomorrow to bring out fainter background stars and increase signal to noise. Got back home just after midnight. Waxing Moon setting in the west was very red nestling in the trees near the horizon.
Night all - from George in bed in Lowestoft
-
-
Popular Now
-
-
Upcoming Events
-
Blog Entries
-
-
Images
