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Happy to give any advice I can. Good luck with getting it all going.
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Kelling Heath Star Party – Autumn 2020
Dave replied to saturnian's topic in Star Parties & Astro Events
I was going to pop up for the day on Saturday. I just tried to get hold of Kelling to ask, but was on the phone too long. So I think I will have to miss coming up for a socially distance meet up with folks. Have a good one those that are going / there. -
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Flipping heck. The dyslexic fingers have struck again...
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In the clear bit between the neighbours houses, I managed to get Big Jupe and Saturn. Now waiting for Mars to get high enough.
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No problem.
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Next time...
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Well Mars is certainly starting to look fantastic. Lots of surface detail showing and polar cap shrinking. It's going to be a busy few months. 😆 I also created an animation from three of this mornings images. Taken with a Celestron C11. 2x Barlow. ZWO ASI120MC Camera.
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My first Mars and my first sketch - 01/09/2020
Dave replied to Pixies's topic in Observing - Planetary
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Thank you. Of course you can use it. Cheers.
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An early start today for Mars as Syrtis Major was due to rotate into view and be nicely on display just before dawn. Image taken with a Celestron C11, 2x Barlow and ZWO ASI120MC camera.
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I just couldn't resist having a play with this wonderful data to try creating something different. I first created the RGB image in Photoshop. Ha - Red. OIII - Green. Si - Blue. All subsequent image processing was performed using Affinity Photo. Duplicated layer to create three identical layers. Used curves to tweak out the fainter material in each layer to varying degrees. Strong curve adjustment on bottom layer. Medium curve on middle. Very subtle curve on upper. Created and applied layer masks on the upper two layers created from the layer below it. Flattened the image. Duplicated layer and made the upper layer a luminosity layer. Made saturation adjustments on the lower layer. Tweaked the individual RGB colour curves to adjust the colour to try and get something a little bit different. Applied a subtle Live Layer Unsharp Masking adjustment to the upper luminosity layer. Then applied the Topaz AI Denoise Plugin. Made a few more subtle curves and levels adjustments on the luminosity layer before flattening, cropping, flipping and rotating the image.
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EP13 - Sunday, 2nd August 2020 7:30pm BST - Astro Q&A hosted by SGL Mods & Admins
Dave replied to Grant's topic in StarGaZine
Sorry I didn't make this. It took them longer than expected to get Bob & Doug out of the Dragon capsule. -
EP13 - Sunday, 2nd August 2020 7:30pm BST - Astro Q&A hosted by SGL Mods & Admins
Dave replied to Grant's topic in StarGaZine
The Virtual Astronomy Club are holding a live watch party for the Splashdown of Dragon scheduled for 7:42 tomorrow. I'll try and join you as soon as we've finished. -
Just fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Hi Folks. I have just released a guide for Affinity Photo astrophotography image processing, but I don't think I'm allowed to advertise within SGL. 😉 Dave
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Really sorry to hear this. I know how much work goes into organising something like this.
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Sadly, I wont' be there on the Friday evening, so hope it goes well.
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Looking fantastic Kev. Can't wait to see it for real this afternoon. See you later.
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Looking fab Kev. Let me know when would be a good time for you for me to pop over and admire it.
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Hope the dog's OK mate.