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Paul M last won the day on October 23 2020

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  1. That's stunning! For what it's worth I prefer version 1, M42 just hanging there in all that sky, a work of art. The pure astro image of the come is very nice to. Its a very nice comet but I've only glimpsed it briefly before it hit the neighbours roof.
  2. In size order (where two scopes are the same size, beauty will be the trump card ) My 18 month old baby: 10" RC My 11 year old baby: 10" Newt My 40 year old baby: Fullerscopes 6.25" "Export Newtonian" Random acquisition 3 years ago: Celestron 127 Mak A cutesy Borg 60mm ED Guidescope. It seems to work but got no mirrors ??
  3. It is a magnificent image, and my favorite deep sky subject; mind boggling galaxy fields! I might take the liberty of downloading and solving it myself, so I can look further into it. Nothing but cloud and drizzle here soneeds must!
  4. I'm loving these images from your Seestar Geoff! Ths is a fine looking comet and you do it great justice. Unfortunately, low in the west isn't good from home for me. I think that if they isssue a firmwear that can stack on a comet or other "moving" object, astrophotography will enter a new era.... actually, it has already but, anyway, you get my train of thought!
  5. Lets see what Mr Tomato can eek out of his subs. I love a good mystery. Processing pixels to death bores me to death but astrometry and solar system/ minor bodies gets my attention! I'm stuck for ideas as to what might cause a moving object to follow offset paths in each data set?? Fair enough, offet along the line of motion, goes without saying, but not offet to adjacent tracks. Chromatic effects?? Who knows. Anyway, I am leaning towards poor workmanship... πŸ™Š πŸ€£πŸ˜‰
  6. Just to add, imagine, waiting billions of years for it to be your time to shine... To be that Supernova....And then get sidelined and talked over! 🀣
  7. Intresting image. I took the liberty of solving exhibit "A" in ASTAP and annotated position the position of the accused asteroid at times 22:00 ( top), 23:00 and 00:01 (bottom), last night. It was observed to pass through the exact area of the alleged incident. Although there are no other witnesses, there is, in my view, sufficient evidence that the unidentifed object is some abberation or stacking artifact of the accused asteroid. Given it's magnitude and that stars down to mag 18 are plainly resolved, yet no clear asteroid trail is present.... I rest my case. Send him down!
  8. Mr. Varitasium certainly likes to stir the hornets nest! He recently did a video about electrical energy not flowing in conductors, but in the fields generated by the agitated electrons carried in them, or something to that effect. It caused a bit of a storm in the on-line community. πŸ˜€ And that is its value. He's not teaching physicists, he's opening the average punters eyes to some astonishing subjects. In my limited view, the video posted above is more a matter of devils advocate playing at semantics, stating the obvious in a provacative prose. Anyway, he seems to have reduced output in recent times but his work is generally very watchable!
  9. Thanks Han, I just spotted the Track and Stack feature when I downloaded the latest version this afernoon. I'm looking for some data that I know contains an asteroid or 2 so I can try it out. I've already played with the improved mosaic stitching. It made an excellent job of a recent 9 panel mosaic of M42 I did a few weeks ago.
  10. Hot heads, you indeed see them on the Internet as much as you see them on the roads. It's a very common human trait. With that in mind, along with the knowledge that I've surely been at fault myself plenty of times in the past, I just shrug and go on my way when a thread goes south. I was "brung up" in the rough end of a rough town. I learned how to survive at an early age 😁 There are some extremely knowledgeable specialist on SGL. I respect that and may change my thinking on a given subject in deference to their experience and knowledge and expertise. A well presented argument is it's own proof. Anyway, to stand on the shoulders of giants you first need to do some climbing!πŸ˜‡
  11. Great image. Just how I like it. Requires more imagination that processing skill!😁
  12. That's true, but I'm sure the projector software would be hung up on a Windows update on the day of my visit!
  13. An important message well shared! SGL is a wealth of technical information, knowledge and experience. That's what attracted me, returning to active astronomy after the life/balance hiatus. The landscape had changed a lot in my absence. It's been 10 or so years and I'm still here. The life/stuff hadn't ended though. My in-laws health became a big feature in our lives and becoming foster carers on top of working full time. It's been busier than ever with the MIL's recent sudden decline in health and then death just last week and the FIL's death 3 years ago. My wife asked just yesterday, "what will I do with my time?", referring to the hole left by her mother. As if she/we aren't still overloaded!! So with the weather, and all, astronomy (or imaging, as it is for me now) has been getting pushed out. But it's still nice to pop in and see what's going on, share my very few imaging efforts, and maybe tell my own story. Like pubs of old, when folk used to pop out for a pint quite frequently, there would always be a familiar face to chat to and even let off the steam of the day. SGL's social function, I feel, outweighs it's technical function for many and perhaps most members.
  14. That looks like airliner contrail to me. So I looked at Flight radar 24 to see if any big planes were heading NWish over that part of the world. Not a perfect match, but I don't know the actual location:
  15. "Bageljaws" is perhaps one of the more extreme disruptions of Beetlejuice's name and it still be recognisable. Well done! On a less serious note, statistically, we are overdue a MilkyWay supernova. But there is also a good chance that it will only be visible in the southern hemisphere. There is a good chance that it will happen on the "wrong" side of the Sun so that it's already a mature supernova by the time it's visible in a dark sky. There is a lot to go wrong, due or not. What a pain in the right shoulder it would be for Betelgeuse to erupt just as it slips into spring twilight. I know, I know, it'll still be there in late summer as Orion reemerges in the dawn sky, but I think I'd rather witness the brightening phase rather than an endless fade....
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