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HI to one and all i`m pat from near chesterfield i have a 12"dob with telrad and crawford low profile focuser a 90mm frac d10 binos and other bits and pieces,here starts my adventures in space i am inte

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1st October Jupiter /Wide field

Oct 1st hi to all was out last night was play in with the web cam and 12" reflector ,i got a bit a vid of Jupiter but its was rubbish seeing smoggy is what it was . i tried for 10 mins and gave up got the camera out D10 and 18mm lens and a way a went ,these pics are raw and have not been touched theres to many . mars was up hard to miss its rise in early now still to low for me and to late.Jupiter pics are edited a bit to bring the banding out cheers Jupiter video wide-field pic
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Not a bad night

28th Sept Hi all was out last night as clear skies where on the cards,and a wanted to see what i've missed over the last few days Cassiopeia caph as 2 great cluster ngc7789,and 7790 to the left,just under them is ngc129,189,225,nery small and not very bright move in down to ruchbar ,is m103 not hard to miss meduim brightness,also a few small clusters 32mm/18mm ep ngc 436,457 the last star as a few more nut did not look.just sweeping around Cas theirs loads of great star fields of all colors
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drawing m33,shedir

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-sketches-unconventional/157218-drawing-m33-shedir.html#post1962551 i posted it in this section of sgl please take a look thanks
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my roman coins for sale

hi all want to sell/ swap my roman coins i found over the years with the club i used to be in ,i had days out to lincoln and essex and no longer am into it any more they can be seen here if any one is intersted to swap or buy them so i can buy a new EP or swap a decent ep or what ever,i have a book on roman coins a can throw in with more info on the coins and what they worth ,i can not be bothered to put them on e bay cheers coins can be seen here http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/tod
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epic moon video 12" dob and wow

hi all had a great night last night got the 12" reflector out and spc900 ,ir/uv filter and st to work it was about 01:30 when i started i got great focus the x 1.5 teleneg barlow worked a treat the crayford dual speed focusser i got from FLO is mega nearly 6 months since a brought this and worth every single pence hope you take a look at the video i was fighting with the bright moon so the gain ect was needing to be tweaked all the time ,i was going to get the goto and track but the views wi
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sadr region drawn

i posted this in the other section but for those that missed it http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-sketches-unconventional/155595-sadr-area-drawn.html#post1946778 cheers
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pens and paper

heres the link for a nother sgl post i did http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-sketches-unconventional/154847-pens-paper.html#post1939432 will try and do a couple of hours soon as this cloud clears thanks :)
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Things to see in september

HI all pic below if you had nothing planned this may or may not help do not forget the commet in the coathangar ,i seen it last night was easy not to miss it may be easier to right clik and save as ect has i did not want to upload as a large image thanks
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looks good for me

well looked at a few sites today to see if i get a chance with the reducer 0.5x that a sgl mate as gave me to try for a few sessionshope this wether site as got it right update 02:10 28th well went with a freind to do some wide field shots finished about 01:00,nice and clear ,milky way nice and clear put reflector out go back out,cloud
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a few maps

hi there thought a would post a few maps as september is nearly here and these few maps might come in handy to some one
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August 2011 things to see

hi every one heres some to read and things to find if your board in august just keep kliking the image for full size to read will post septembers soon
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Moon stills from avi

heres the link i put the post in the lunar images ect on here ,heres the link its sgl http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-lunar/152420-moon-stills-avi.html#post1916388 if ya get time have a look the stills are not half bad (i would say that i took the vid) cheers pat
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Daytime moon

i have never tried to video the moon with it be in day time but gave it a go thanks pat
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jupiter 4th august 2011 moons on the move

hi wanted to vid the moon positions ,this morning try in to get a video every day for the month if you watched the 3rd august video this one is a must as the 3 moons, io,gan,euro form a lil triangle tonight was brill was hope in,for the same tonight.but a think we all have the wet stuff today for a change http://www.youtube.com/user/todd8137?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/uZUsMX0z5lI heres the link try and sit a few feet away from the monitor for better view in and watch in HD thanks pat
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Jupiter 3rd aug 2011

Hi all waited up for jupiter so i could try Castrator software out as with have in the dob and it fly in all over the placeon the screen,this sofware sorts that out and makes registax catch all the frames i dropped one as i shot this all in 60 fps which was rubbish ,with the spc900,any way heres a link for it have a look http://www.astrokraai.nl/castrator.php it works ok theres no point me going any more into it ,as am not up to speed with it my self but its fool proof and very easy to use clo
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M13

HI ALL last night i took 50, 4 sec subs of m13 on the camera every thing was great lots of stars in the glob,zoomed the 10d in look great no joy with the stack with darks ect. when i looked on the pc at the raws (iso 800) there was nothing there could not work this out heres just 2 of the pics which are single frames i deleted the other 48 next time a will take a few and check them out straight away
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starry nights pro pluss 6

Hi all well just spent most of the day play in about with the copy i brought of SN-PRO PLUS 6 and the ascom pluggin,man what a pain i no this is so simple to do and could not get it to play ball so i decided that stellarium is for me at least thats almost plug and play with the scope.with all drivers built in a can not send snpp6 back to the company off amazon "because you undid the box" we can not except it back . tried sn website the help section just blew my brains out my ears ,on the up si
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my horrible day!

hi all well phewwwww am glad to day is done because what a day its been the new serial to usb came today all excited i unwrapped it and thought good by to the old one which i trapped in the door 4 nights ago half a sleep,half awake ,i trapped it in a heavy door big ali one chopped it clean in half. so to flea bay i went thinking a cheap one at 10 quid would do the job,not!what a hassle it turnede out to be i riiged every thing up and thouht all would work well all plug and play the laptop top i
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My published picTures Derbyshire Times 14th july 2011

hi all sent a pic in to the local paper and they printed it i have seen many nlc pics but the clouds are normaly white and glowing never in color here they are i now no what they are they asked me to send in my astro pic but i think they not worthy ,yet! thanks for looking pat clear skies always
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meade Auto star #497 alignment stars northern hemisphere

hi all am sure any one that gets a meade goto scope and as not really thought about the alignment thing ,so you set up and are not sure were any thing is star wise it then says "slewing to Etamin" as you gasp and get you books and stellarium going a bet you wish you just had a print out to show the stars in the conste http://www.weasner.com/etx/autostar/AlignmentStars497A4.pdf found this as a was searching for some thing else it also shows the southern hem so download it my help if you do
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