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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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moon last night

took a few vids of the moon last night 90mm spc900 picsare 40% zoomed on average each pic had about 1200 frames each or there abouts was doge in the clouds most of the night http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/15%207%202011%200125/ thanks pat
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sharpcap

hi all lots of people ask me what settings i use on sharpcap so here is a try at how to set it up be gentle its my first attempt at doing this and use in the software to do it 50 goes latter i got there not the best how to video in the world but its a start YouTube - ‪todd8137's Channel‬‏ thanks for looking pat
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sharpcap video

hi all lots of people ask me what settings i use on sharpcap so here is a try at how to set it up be gentle its my first attempt at doing this and use in the software to do it 50 goes latter i got there not the best how to video in the world but its a start http://www.youtube.com/user/todd8137?feature=mhee thanks for looking pat
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Help turn the street lights down in Derbyshire(form)

hi all to those in derbyshire heres a online form to fill in to lower and dim street lights in derbyshire please fill in the form to help the cause http://forms.derbyshirepartnership.gov.uk/tempdocs/000001305/Part%20Night%20Lighting%20Questionnaire.HTM do not forget we pay3.2 million a year dimming the lights would save 700,000 a year and lower DC COUNCILS CARBON EMISSIONS BY 3% up to 75 % of the country as done this crime and anti socail probs have not gone up or down please fill the form in
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space clouds ?

HI all last night came in the house packed every thing away looked out the toilet window and saw these clouds a saw some pics the other day on sgl but thought i would never see the it was around 02:45 iso 200, 5 secs cheers pat clear skies ps as you can see the painted out street lights may garden is now in total darkness
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street light victory

VICTORY Hi all a victory for me after about 3 months of constant complaining to my local county council daily and to the local MP and to the governments environmental agency and the mp in the house of commons who deals with this .this morning a guy knocked on my door and announced that he would paint me 4 street lights out and to point the ones out that caused me hassle ,after make in him and is pal a cuppa tea and got the good biscuits out for them we had a walk to the bain of m
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M57 pic attempt 12" reflector

hi all just had a quick go at M57 with the 12 " reflector iso800,7 x 5 sec subs 5 darks,dss,hers the result not great but its a start i cropped the first 2 pic because i could not got the dob base in the same place and the edges were jagged (after the stack)hence the crop am over the moon ,they not the best thats on sgl and that just keeps me going ,and to improve my skills,this curve is a large learning one not only getting to grips with 2 scopes a dslr camera and its setting the 10D and use in
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Dumbbell neb

HI all well put MO1 out to cool and gave up the pics for tonight has i have not really had a good night with just the scope for ages the darkside keeps pulling me in and is such a pain .so why looking at brocchis cluster which did not fail to get the juices flowing ,after ticking of M71 as well , the old dumbbell neb was on the cards ive not seen it before till tonight after a few scans and pass in it by about five times ,i put the 0lll filter on the 32mm ep and ding ding there she was
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start of my mega wide field shot

hi all well i decide to start a wide field shot i intend o try and take 50x30secs every night i can of cygnus, and try and get a few hours of pics to stack stacking 20/30 subs is ok but after a chat with another sgl freind and he told me "he does not consider 6/7 hours of subs shot over a few days as nothing so here it goes a did about 30 x30 secs heres the stack well the pic a bit of LP but i will kill those pics ,heres the pic so far will update once a have about 4 hours worth cheer
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start of my mega wide field shot

hi all well i decide to start a wide field shot i intend o try and take 50x30secs every night i can of cygnus, and try and get a few hours of pics to stack stacking 20/30 subs is ok but after a chat with another sgl freind and he told me "he does not consider 6/7 hours of subs shot over a few days is nothing so here it goes a did about 30 tonight i legged it down into the field with the tripod i got about 45 mins tonight and the clouds came in . heres the stack well the pic a bit of LP
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another night of headaches

hi all ,if it could go wrong it did deleted all the darks flats to start of with,then about 20 wide field shots of about 45 secs of cygnus then went for andromeda galaxy got a few but not enough the light morning was on me and yet again a forgot to clip the lpf filter in to the camera arghhhhhhhhh tried the moon it was boiling got a bit but it was daylight jupiter was up and tried with cam to much light wobblwe boil hope to try again tonight if this rain decides to stop heres the link for the
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moon tonight i hope (jupiter video)

The Moon hi all i hope to shoot the moon tonight with MO1 (sw12"reflector)the skies look clear here and nothing on the radar map to show rain or cloud till 04:00 so happy days a did mod the toucam to spc900nc spec. then with wccrtl i flashed to raw mode special factory settings ,so no process of the video taken by the toucam the spc880 flashed ect has special factory high color and brightness also a few other settings tweaked so will give them a whirl, also will try the filters out fingers
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How long to take a widefield shot 10 secs 5 secs ?

hi all the most common private msg i get on sgl is,"how many seconds should i take ?" well basic wide field shots just on a tripod with no motors, piggy back or just stuck on a camera tripod its easy lets say you have a 28mm lens on the camera and lets say you want to do a basic wide field shot of ursa major. so you shoot for 45secs and stars trail doh! try this, the magic number is 600 :) so i no my camera as a 28mm lense attached but not sure how long to keep the shutter open before tr
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Deneb Fail

june 17th fail DENEB/ Cygnus hi all failed last night from the word go!, forgot the filters for the camera (10d) i wrote down what a was gonna do,subs times iso`s darks ect,but this all went to the dogs a sat on the sheet .the moon came up and the night skies got lighter ,a brill gold color the moon ,any way got to it and started ,2 hours later (01:20) i came in i noticed the camera lens had lots of dew then no filter checked the darks and noticed they were all 45sec
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piggy back 3rd july wide field shots

hi all was messing around wiyh the cannon dslr last night piggy backed it to the 90mm meade goto and did 15 x30sec subd and some darks ect deep skied them and they was not to bad a slight bit of corel paint and job done for a short session they turned out ok i think any way will be out tonight to capture the back end of Leo amf se what meisser list shows up on them heres a few below from last nights quickie here a link for my photo bucket theres 15 new ones a did last night http://s473.photobuc
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23rd May pics eos utility

May 23rd Hi all was out last night in the cold ,temp 7c 5% clouds and windy i took the frac out to test the cannon eos utility software out as it lets you view the pics you took on the screen of the laptop with in seconds focus was a issue i made some home made masks wich can be see below 1 and 3 do the job just fine 2 was a fail,the thought of the volcanoe ash put me of take in the reflector out side last night did get a few tests 5x5sec subs and darks run final pics were ok on photo bucket w
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god and the night sky

Hi all me and my daughter who`s 12 was just looking at some pics of Lyra we had taken the other night and out the blue, she sais "dad if god is true why can`t we see were he lives ?" me be in a non beleaver in any religion said am not sure because i did not want to push my view on to her, but it does bring to mind if religion was true and god created the universe .why would are planets out of zillions be chosen the other thing she said was that ,how did we start to worship a man when we had wor
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Evening 11 May

Evening 11/13th May Hi all was out last night for a quick play started around 10 o clock already to go for about 22:30,the 90mm frac goto and webcam phillips i stayed out for about 30 mins and that was that heres one of many the link is for 2 albums one for the 11th and one for the 13th,photo bucket please leave coments here after looking if you wisha cheers pat clear skies always http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/11may%20evening/ http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd81
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moon 11 may

11 MAY took a few pics last night ,did not notice the lpf filter was covered with dew ruined to many pics maybe got 25 out of 300 lol what a pain heres the link about 20 more pics to look at v http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/11%20may/ just a small one here v
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May 10th moon and the wind

May 10th Hi all well the night started great clear skies, and my first night out in a couple of days , well gave it 45 mins all kit out side ready to go .got out there and the cloud an wind wa blowing at around 13 mph a thought a will take a quick couple and get in ,no such luck at all the wind with the dew shield in place was really grab in the tube focus was a issue with the turberlence and the boiling moon video was out the window tried for about 30 mins and gave up a did want to try a few s
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2nd April pics

hi all i gave up try in to get m57 with the dob,i got one pic thats so so,in the end i got the tripod and decided to just stick the camera on it and a way i went heres the efforts from last night pat http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/2nd%20april%2001%2030hours/ the shot of lyra was stacked 7subs forgot the subs time but overdid it on the curves
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saturn the last time

hi was looking at some old videoe footage i have never got satuen the same since this night still a great sight http://www.youtube.com/user/todd8137
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Saturn 25 26 april

:clouds1:hi all got a few snaps of saturn ,the wind wad +12mph the 12 dob with dew shield,was here there and every were video was not on at all.so got the d10 and colred filters ,that wa even worse,so back to the web cami found away with 3 large crocodile clips with a bit of old push bike in a tube to clamp the base that worked out ok`ish any way to tired to upload all pics a will try one if a have no joy then will do later did any view tonight between 22:45/00"45 has all moons were on sjow and
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sky watcher LPF filter 1st test

hi all well did a few shots last night but things where not ideal partly cloudy and dodge in the rest to get a few shots the skywatcher LPF filter was purchased of flo next day delivery as prompt as ever ,shot polaris because it’s a easy thing and that direction as the most sky glow sheffield is about 12 mile down the valley from me and its like a big open bowl spew in orange evil every were I will have another try tonight as these pics were taken on the 21st april ,so we will see as toni
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polaris and the camera and light polution

hi all ,well last night thought a would take a few long expo`s of polaris to try and get a good star trail pic ,but to my supprise they turned out better than a thoght .for one they did not trail ok the time was about 2 mins not much of a chance there then,but i did get some good shots a will put the pics up in a minute on photo bucket the link will be there shortly ,apart from them all be in orange! any way i ordered a lpf filter,and it came this morning so a will try that a read alot about the
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